Money Matters: Earn and Save

Well, I just got home from another amusing Walmart shop with nearly as much money as I left with! (See photo below.) I feel like it keeps getting harder to get rid of my money. 😂 While that's not a problem I'm currently seeking help to resolve, I'm always happy to help anyone who'd like to be able to relate! In this particular instance , I just used ibotta to get a bunch of things I'd never pay retail for for free or cheap. Of course, I also used lots of other receipt-scanning apps and a cash back credit card as well, making this little haul borderline profitable — and the hubby did the same for double the fun — but one thing at a time! Ibotta info: Ibotta is a cash back rewards app that I use to get cash back or even make money when I go grocery shopping as well as sometimes when I make online purchases, etc. For grocery shopping, I have a quick peek in the app whenever I'm in a store and looking to see what I can use it to get free or at least discou

Fyi for those of you in the states 🇺🇲, M1 Finance currently has a $50 referral bonus. (The person referring AND the person signing up each get $50.) Very worth it imo. Sean Gee and I both have accounts already (which were quick to set up) that we just keep our initial funding + the referral credit invested in. Join us? Referral info: With M1, you can automatically invest in what you want for free. Use this link today and get $50 when you open and fund a new account with $100: https://m1.finance/DHWckuFFo9Hs Details I received from M1 via email earlier:

In case any of you are interested in signing up to get your hands on your own free stuff when your birthday rolls around (or checking what I'm missing here and sending me some recommendations!), here's a list of most of the decent birthday deals companies sent me this year just for signing up to their free loyalty programs: 🔺️Note that my birthday was 5/8, and the expiration dates given corresponded to that. Your deals will correspind to YOUR birthday. •A&W (root beer float, expiration: 6/7) •Arby's (shake & curly fries with purchase, expiration: ~7/7) •Auntie Anne's (pretzel, expiration: 5/15) •Baskin Robbins (scoop, expiration: 5/18) •Bennihana ($30 (dine-in), expiration: 6/2) •Buffalo Wild Wings (6-piece wings, expiration: ?) •Cane's (drink, expiration: 5/9) •Cinnabon (coffee, expiration: 5/15) •Circle k ($2, expiration: ~6/6) •CVS (hand sanitizer, tweezers, or eye mask, expiration 5/31) •Del taco (shake, expiration: ?) •Denny's (Grand Sl

Recently, a friend expressed interest in how my husband Sean and I had scooped up and old slot machine, easily worth at least $500, without having to open our wallets. It reminded me: a penny saved is a penny earned. That in mind, have you heard of the Buy Nothing project? The concept: some people post things they no longer want or need for free, some people post things they're in need of, and a lot of money and landfill space is saved. More info here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/home/buy-nothing-groups-gift-economy/2021/04/20/e392b896-964d-11eb-a6d0-13d207aadb78_story.html For those of you who also happen to be local to Las Vegas, NV, this is one of our main local groups: https://www.facebook.com/groups/220512709351527/ For those of you elsewhere, search for "Buy Nothing" + your area (i.e., town, suburb, etc.) on Facebook, and you should be able to find one easily enough. If not, search here for one near you: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&am

Here's another no-brainer. GROUNDFLOOR: Join GROUNDFLOOR with the following link and earn $10 to invest!  https://www. groundfloor .us/new_referral/iec633   This one's an easy $10 and another way you can diversify your investments because no basket should be responsible for holding all your eggs.

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, a major topic of discussion has been how to get into the market while it's down or "buy low" now so you can "sell high" later. To get you started, I've rounded up a list of brokers you can check out in case you'd like to see the different ways each is able to manage your stock and even cryptocurrency investments. To help you find which it's in your best interests to use as primary investing accounts, I would be more than happy to discuss my experiences with each as well as the promos I know of and how they all work if you'd like or you can Google them or try them out yourself! Either way, each has its pros and cons but all exist because they have their own merits AND each one I've listed gives you either fractional or whole stock shares for joining. They are all also completely free to set up, they all have mobile apps you can use to manage your account on the go, and most offer comissio