Money Matters: Earn and Save

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...