Money Saving Tips

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Travel Hacking: Can It Really Save You $7,000 or More in Travel Expenses?

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Travel Hacking: Can It Really Save You $7,000 or More in Travel Expenses?

Recently, I stumbled on a new podcast (during my paternity leave). This one podcast gave me so much motivation. The name of the podcast: Choose FI. In this instance FI stands for Financial Independence. There is a whole community out there that has placed their focus on building up their wealth in 10 or 20 years of work and then plan to retire early. The idea with reaching financial independence is to find as many life hacks that can save you money and keep your expenses low. It’s about keeping expenses low and saving boat loads of money for approximately 10 years. Some spend 20 years on this journey, but it is completely attainable in 10 years.

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Life Hack: Staggered Paternity Leave

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Life Hack: Staggered Paternity Leave

As many of you may know, my wife and I have two children. Our oldest daughter is almost 23 months old and our youngest is 3 months old. It is a lot of fun interacting with our children on a daily basis. I detailed the joys of spending time with my family in my post: We are on a Mini-Retirement Trial. Being a teacher, I get a lot of time off in the summer. It just so happens that the birth of our second child happened while I was already off of work. This allowed me to be home for four weeks, before heading back to work. In August, I dove back into teaching and my wife stayed home with the kids.

Update: How Do Cord Cutters Still Watch Sports?

Update: How Do Cord Cutters Still Watch Sports?

Last year on August 14, 2017, I posted the first edition of this article that focussed on live streaming services as a way to watch your favorite college football team without the spending a boatload on satellite or cable. This article comes to you a little later than last year, but you still have about 3 days to sign up and start watching football. Check out the latest updates on each live streaming service (and the antenna) below.

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41 Ways to Keep Your Kids Entertained This Summer that Cost Little or Nothing (Part 2)

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41 Ways to Keep Your Kids Entertained This Summer that Cost Little or Nothing (Part 2)

This is the second of a two part series of articles talking about fun and cheap ways to spend time with your kids without breaking the budget. The two articles combined will total 41 ideas. This article in particular will have 21 out of the 41 ideas. My first article, which posted on Monday, June 4, 2018, had 20 of the 41 ideas. Hope you enjoy this list and let me know if you think of any others. Check out the last 21 out of 41 ideas that we came up with (in no particular order):

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41 Ways to Keep Your Kids Entertained This Summer that Cost Little or Nothing (Part 1)

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41 Ways to Keep Your Kids Entertained This Summer that Cost Little or Nothing (Part 1)

Summer is here and that means that our kids are home. No more school, more free time and more time to drive you crazy! This summer for us is particularly interesting for the Summit of Coin family. We will be having our second child in the middle of the summer (I know exciting, right). By the time our second child arrives, our oldest will be 19 months old. She's in the perfect jealousy age and the perfect age to challenge mom and dad.