Barnes & Noble is running their Summer Reading Program for kids in Grades 1-6. I like that the steps are pretty simple: Read any eight books this summer and record them in this Summer Reading Journal [printable PDF]. Tell us which part of the … [Read the rest]
FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) is certainly a catchy acronym, but it always seems to confuse people because the word "retire" suggests a line between working and not working. What does it mean to "Retire Early"? What if you only … [Read the rest]
Update July 2024: Upside closed my account effective immediately and without prior warning because I used "unauthorized" promo codes. Just FYI, I would cash out now and whenever you have enough of a balance. Original post: (Update: Added … [Read the rest]
Parent of a teen? Check your local YMCA chapter as many are offering free summer YMCA membership for teens. I did some quick searching and found the "Get Summer" initiative from California to Minnesota to North Carolina to Boston. The specific … [Read the rest]
Planet Fitness is running the High School Summer Pass again in 2024, which is a free gym membership for teens ages 14-19 to work out at any of its more than 2,500+ locations throughout the US and Canada. Valid from Saturday, June 1 through Saturday, … [Read the rest]
Updated May 2024 with refreshed rates, new Preferred Deposit online initial deposit option, lower $1 minimum on money market funds. Merrill Edge is a self-directed brokerage arm of Bank of America and Merrill Lynch. They are a decent broker … [Read the rest]
What happens when the technology behind a Fintech app breaks down? We found out last week, when unfortunately millions of users lost access to their funds (and still haven't gotten it back as far as I can tell, as of this writing 5pm ET 5/20/24). … [Read the rest]
Buy a $50 IKEA eGift card, get bonus $10 eGift Card. That's $10 off every $60 of IKEA stuff, which seems pretty good. Limit $500 total gift cards purchased ($100 in bonus gift cards). The website URL is funky, but it is linked directly from the … [Read the rest]
Update May 2024. New 1.5% asset transfer promo. Brokerage app Moomoo is offering a 1.5% bonus on assets transferred (up to a $300 bonus on $20,000 transferred). The minimum hold period is 90 days. Valid only for new customers. Full terms here. … [Read the rest]
Morningstar has published their 2024 Diversification Landscape Update (direct link to PDF), another useful whitepaper for DIY investors that looks closer at the correlations between different asset classes. In their Key Takeaways, they note the … [Read the rest]
Limited-time Referral Bonus Boost: The Raisin referral bonus for new accounts has been hiked for a limited time, doubled on some tiers and now up to $200. The new tiers are below. At the $5,000 and $10,000 amounts, the bonus works out to 1% of … [Read the rest]
Update May 2024: Juno just sent out the following e-mail today, which may be the best of example of public relations double-speak that I've seen in a while. Look at all those meaningless words! 😳 Juno paid out a lot of above-average … [Read the rest]
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