Category: Financial

  • Empower  (Personal Capital) Bonus 2024: Get It Now!

    Empower (Personal Capital) Bonus 2024: Get It Now!

    This article discusses the financial planning and wealth management service, Empower / Personal Capital, and how it can help with financial management. It provides an overview of how the service works, as well as its bonuses for 2024. Key takeaways from the article are: 1) Personal Capital is a financial planning and wealth management service…

  • How to Stop Buying Stuff

    How to Stop Buying Stuff

    Are you overwhelmed with Stuff? Do you want to declutter, but it just isn’t working? Read how you can Stop Buying Stuff and live a happpier life!

  • Making Money as an Amazon Affiliate. Or Not…

    Making Money as an Amazon Affiliate. Or Not…

    After I had blogged for a while, I noticed that a lot of my favorite bloggers tried to make money as an Amazon affiliate. They have links to Amazon on their website, recommending products. For example, they write articles like “The Best Holiday Gifts for Your Globetrotting Friend”. So I decided to look into this…

  • How To Use Hilton Honors Points 2023

    How To Use Hilton Honors Points 2023

    Stay in luxury hotels for free! Find out how you can travel hack and get to stay in Hilton hotels all over the world for free. Have you always wanted to stay in a Waldorf Astoria hotel? Do you like to travel to faraway places or maybe just to out-of-state family? This post will teach…

  • Become an Airbnb Superhost: Ten Easy Tips!

    Become an Airbnb Superhost: Ten Easy Tips!

    So you want to become an Airbnb Superhost? We started out as guests, and enjoyed it so much that we now are superhosts! We had good experience with staying at Airbnb’s in Europe, and met many interesting people. When we were looking for ways to make some extra money, we opened our own Airbnb. Ours…

  • Great Rewards for Long Delay

    Great Rewards for Long Delay

    Intro Being delayed is never fun, but it is nice that the European regulations will help you get reimbursed for the inconvenience. The rule is EC261/2004. Let me tell you about rewards for a long delay. What happened? Chaos A few years ago we travelled to Italy and flew back from Rome, all using points,…

  • Check your Credit Card Rewards Balance

    Check your Credit Card Rewards Balance

    Credit Cards with Rewards Why would you want to check your credit card rewards balance periodically? In our quest to inventory all our debt we logged into all our credit-card accounts to get the current information. We confirmed that yes, we are more in debt than we want to be. But additionally we feel good…

  • My Year Without Shopping

    My Year Without Shopping

    Intro Over the years I have gotten more and more overwhelmed with how much stuff I own. As a result, I have worked on decluttering and such. Sadly,  I definitely am not anywhere close to where I want to be. When I read My Year of No Shopping in the New York Times I decided…