Hustling my way to a $0 student loan balance
One of the first things I do when moving to a new town is I apply for a library card. It’s up there with setting up my utilities, finding a good coffee shop, and figuring out the street sweeping schedule so we don’t get ticketed. Why do I love the library so much? They offer
One of the first things people do when they budget, is cancel their subscription services they don’t “need”. Well, let me tell you right now, I might not “need” Netflix/Hulu/Disney+/AppleTV/etc, but I sure as heck don’t want to cancel them. What if there were ways for you to keep your subscriptions, but stop paying for
Before we had eBay, Mercari, Facebook Marketplace, etc, when we needed to get rid of items and make money we had a garage sale. And even though our grandparents might not agree, technology made this even better. Selling online is now a viable side hustle. No HOA’s to get garage sale approval from, no wasting
Spoiler Alert: Absolutely not. However, it’s a lot of fun and as my dad always said about the lotto, “you can’t win if you don’t play”. Out of all the advice he has given, that might be the only one that stuck. One piece of Dad-advice that never stuck was, “always get a receipt at
If you’re in the community of people focused on paying down their debt, or focused on budgeting and personal finance, you’ve almost certainly heard about the Cash Envelope Method of budgeting. Popularized by Dave Ramsey, the cash envelope method is a process where at each paycheck, you take out a specified amount of money and
I used to work with a guy named Joe and on Monday he would always ask how my weekend was. I’d ramble off what I did and his jaw would drop and he’d say “someone needs to attach a Go-Pro to you so we could understand how you do so much”. And it was always
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It all started with a casual stroll up 94 floors in Downtown Chicago… When I worked in Illinois, I worked for a sports nutrition company that sponsored an event called “The Hustle up the Hancock”. It consisted of running/walking up The Hancock 94 floors, 1,632 steps of pure torture. You can learn more about the
In my “about me and my journey” blog post, I mentioned I had a knack for side hustling, and I want to elaborate on that a bit. Well, a lot. A little over a year ago, my boyfriend Mike and I decided we needed to take a trip to Europe. I’ve never traveled anywhere besides
I’m Liz. At the time I’m writing this post, I’m $25,104.48 in student loan debt. I started college in 2006. Totally unsure of what I wanted to do or where I wanted to go, I knew the cheapest place to make those mistakes was going to be community college. 2 years of gen-eds out of
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