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11 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Quitting Your Job

  • March 13, 2025
  • Tagged as: 401k, careers, emergency fund, health insurance, quiet quitting, rollover, saving for retirement, side hustles
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Ask yourself these important questions before quitting your job to help decide if it’s the best decision for you right now.

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Thrifty Holidays, WFH Savings & Unstoppable Clocks ⏱️

  • September 24, 2024
  • Tagged as: careers, emergency fund, giving, holiday spending, personal finance, saving money

Good Morning HTM Hooligans! Sometimes thinking about long-term financial goals can feel discouraging… “It’ll take years to dig myself out of this credit card debt” 😓 “At this pace, saving up a home down payment…

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Ask Matt & Joel: Which is Better – Pension Plan or 401a?

  • September 5, 2024
  • Tagged as: 401k, careers, money gears, pension, retire early, saving for retirement

Today’s question comes from Mike in Albany… “I’m in my early 40’s and I just started a job with New York State that’s giving me two different retirement options to pick from. The first is…

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Matching Majors, Flex Budgets, & Defending Your Dollars 🥷

  • March 5, 2024
  • Tagged as: budgeting, careers, emergency fund, Financial Independence, saving for retirement

Good morning, lovely souls! If you don’t create a routine, you will be assigned one. If you don’t create a purpose, you will be assigned one. If you don’t create a career, you will be…

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Choosing the Best Side Hustle for YOU

  • October 26, 2023
  • Tagged as: careers, Financial Independence, freelance, gig economy, increase income, retirement investing, side hustle, side hustle ideas
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Anyone can pick up a side hustle or temporary gig work these days. But choosing the right side hustle for the right stage of your life is important. It can have a massive impact on your lifestyle, work ethic, and the ability to achieve your financial goals.

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DIY Pumpkin Kegs, Getting Raises & Matched Cash Back! 💳

  • October 24, 2023
  • Tagged as: asking for discounts, budgeting, careers, Financial Independence, money newsletter, negotiation, pets

Happy morning, happy people! 😎 A quick poem to start the day… It rises,a glorious sun,if one can sit quite long enough,Seeing it, one feels… now I have everything,everything I couldever want.~ Hafiz Just a…

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BIFL Movement, Jobs Everywhere & Happy V Day!! 🥰

  • February 14, 2023
  • Tagged as: BIFL, bike commuting, careers, frugal vs cheap, Life Hacking, saving money

Good morning, lovely people! Just for fun, we asked an AI chat bot to “write a funny Valentine’s Day message for our personal finance newsletter”… Here is what the program generated 👇 Pretty dang good,…

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Grandpa’s scrapbook, Job data breakdown & Throwback to the 7 Money Gears ⚙️

  • August 9, 2022
  • Tagged as: biking, camping, careers, money gears, money podcast, personal finance

Good morning, peeps! ☕️ I found this in one of my grandpa’s old scrap books. (He used to keep newspaper clippings of inspirational quotes and stories he liked) 👇👇👇 What a timeless and cool quote!!! (I wonder…

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