Millennial Making Millions

          I am not an environmentalist, but I pick up littered receipts when I am walking into Walmart. I pick up pennies too, but receipts are far more valuable. Have you ever noticed the QR code, the square thing you can scan with a smart phone, at the bottom of the receipts? Walmart has a savings catcher in their app that allows you to scan that part of the receipt and it searches nearby stores and will price-match different items you bought, and will credit you some money if other stores are selling the same item for cheaper. Since this takes some effort, many people don't scan their receipts, so I do it for them. I look like I'm helping the environment, but I'm helping myself to the money that these people could have been getting back, had they put the effort in.           Odds are you're not as crazy as I am. Most people don't pick up pennies, let alone soggy receipts. I'm weird, I get it. I do know people that look through Walmar...

          Making money. We're told we need to spend forty hours a week doing it. I believe in the concept of work, but I also believe in learning to work smarter, not harder. I am working to develop a series of ways to invest my time and efforts, to create projects that will make money while I'm sleeping. It is said that New York City is the city that never sleeps. While that may be true, the internet, the world wide web, is the true territory that knows no clocks. In the first three days of having this blog, there was only a two hour period during the early hours of the morning on the third day, 3:00-5:00 a.m. that no one looked at this blog. In the same three day period, about 1,200 people had viewed this blog. That is power. That is a market audience. YOU are my audience, and, simply by reading this, you are going to be making me money.           How do I turn those, your views into dollars? Blogger, my blogging site, has built in wa...

We’ve all seen that lady at the grocery store. The one with more coupons than one Sunday paper could hold. They take forever. When we were teenagers it was torture to go to the grocery store when mom was in coupon mode. The worst part was when she spent 30 minutes at the checkout line scanning 513 different coupons. My mother could have been on the show Extreme Couponing. She had a 2” binder full of those card protector sheets we used for our Pokémon cards that was full of coupons. A trip to Walmart took hours. Although I’ve reconciled with coupons, and now realize all the money she saved, there is a much easier way: grocery rebate apps. I have tried many different grocery rebate apps. The ones I use are Ibotta, Mobisave, Checkout 51, and Shopmium. I'll give a brief explainable for each one, what I like, what I don't like, and I'll show you the money, how much I've gotten back from each of them so far. Between them all I've made over $100. That's nothing ...

          Happy Valentines Day. If you're like me, last night, your wife or girlfriend asked you what the plans were for tomorrow. At this point, you either have no plans and she's disappointed, you have plans, but want them to be a surprise, so you play the fool, and she's disappointed, or you've planned something cliche, and she's disappointed. Guys, we're in trouble no matter how we slice it. Girls always wonder why guys are so bad at planning dates. This should answer the question, and hopefully take steps towards solving that.           Guys hate planning. Every guy just inwardly agreed, and every woman just misunderstood me. What they heard was, planning is hard for guys. What I meant was:   Guys HATE planning. It is the worst part of any date, by far, period. Women always wonder why there are so many dinner and a movie dates. That date requires zero planning. It always works , no matter the weather, no matter the t...

          I've never held a million dollars in my hand. I've never actually owned a million dollars. If you were to add up all the money I've earned in my life up to this point, my own personal gross profits, it wouldn't total one million, or even half that. I don't even have a degree in finance or accounting. I'm your average millennial white kid. What makes me special? I have earned two degrees without any student loans. I own two vehicles, free and clear. I started a successful business, ran it for twelve years, and sold it for a good profit. My wife calls me a crazy coupon lady, I'm insured, I have a job, and my grandmother thinks I'm awesome. Most importantly, I am going to be a millionaire.           The American dream for our parents was that they could be whatever they wanted to be, and they could do whatever they wanted to do. Our parents and grandparents saw the rise of the millionaire and the billionaire, and our generation ...