In recent months (you know, when I’ve actually posted), I’ve moved more toward a more overall view of my finances. (I am trying to move toward financial independence, after all.) But this blog (and its predecessor) originally started as much of a side hustle showcase. I still do some of that, so I thought I would take a few paragraphs and talk about where I am actually making any amount of money with these.
Category: Side Hustles
How March Madness Made Me $10,000
If you’re like me, you’re looking to reach FIRE* by any means possible. Side hustles, investing, whatever. We’ll take what we can get, right? If you have read my blog before, you know that I’ve made some extra money through ways that others might consider abnormal. But the most unlikely way I made money was many, many years ago, when I won a March Madness contest.
Yeah, really.
Postmates Doesn’t Deliver Happiness
In the past couple of years, I have tried several different types of side hustles. I have had a fair amount of success with some, while others have not gone nearly as well. Falling squarely into the latter category, sad to say, is Postmates. My recent experience with them has pretty much cemented my opinion of it.
Donating Plasma…for fun and profit???
As our cashflow continues to take a turn for the worse,* I have been looking to several side hustles in an attempt to try to even things out. Sure, there are the usual ones (some of which I will write about later, almost certainly), but I have also looked into one I heard about for decades but never got around to trying until now: donating plasma.
Donating plasma???
How I Made $39,000 on Wheel of Fortune
Yes, I write now about ways to work toward FIRE, or how to make extra money (at present, I’m not doing so great on either front). But one way I have found to make extra money is one of those pie-in-the-sky ideas that people likely write off without a moment’s consideration. Yes, I am one of those lucky few who have won some extra spending money on a game show. In my case, that show was Wheel of Fortune.
How I Earned Over $4500 With Side Hustles Last Year
2018 was a pretty good year for my side hustles. Actually, it was more than that – it was my best year for side hustles. But while I’ve been pursuing these for many years, this was probably only the second year in which I have been doing so terribly seriously.
So…let’s talk about what I did, and how my results differ from those of others.
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