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Dating has gone digital. The budding trend became the undisputed norm as the pandemic pushed most folks indoors and slowed down in-person activities where you might organically meet another single person. (How quaint.) Throughout the pandemic, the popularity of dating…
Read More 4 Dating Jobs You Can Do in the Popular World of Online Dating
How many times have you heard the phrase “SMART goals” and failed to understand what it really means? We bet it happens all the time because project managers are often too busy to look for alternative solutions or learn new…
Read More Understand SMART Project Objectives & Learn How To Write Them For Your Projects
The year is almost over — and what a year it’s been. You might be ready to kick 2020 to the curb, but we still have a few weeks left before we finally get to say “See ya, wouldn’t want…
Read More 6 End-of-Year Money Moves You Should Make Right Now
Here at The Penny Hoarder, we kind of have a thing for Abe Lincoln. His face is profiled on our favorite coin after all. But as much as we love our pennies, we also like seeing Lincoln’s bearded mug on…
Read More Use a Five Dollar Challenge to Easily Grow Your Savings
Just as approximately 14 million jobless Americans were to see their unemployment benefits expire, Congress passed a $900 billion economic stimulus package that extends unemployment programs by 11 weeks and boosts weekly payments. After suggesting the new deal did not…
Read More More Unemployment Benefits Coming: What’s in the Second Stimulus Deal
The blank slate of a new year is something to look forward to. But as we set financial goals for the upcoming 12 months, it’s important to think beyond broad declarations, like: “I want to save more money.” Without a…
Read More 52-Week Money Challenge Hacks to Help You Save $1,300+ in 2021
Hey 2020, don’t let the door hit you on the way out. There are plenty of reasons this year in particular — a lost job, illness or sheer boredom — could have left you racking up expenses. Let the promise…
Read More What You Can Do About Credit Card Debt Before 2021
We’re almost there, folks. Only three more years until the end of 2020. At least it feels that way. The pandemic upended many areas of the economy, forcing millions of people out of work and into a scramble to fill…
Read More 7 Side Hustles That Helped Us Make It Through 2020
Dear Reader, Every week I seek out your tricky money questions — and boy oh boy, did you deliver in 2020. The year brought lots of questions about stimulus checks, unemployment benefits, hardship agreements and pretty much everything COVID-19-related. But…
Read More Your Money Questions, Answered: Top 10 Dear Penny Columns of 2020
We sure spent a lot of time in our homes in 2020. And the longer we spent confined within those walls, the more projects we noticed needing to be done. Home projects can be expensive, but we savvy penny hoarders…
Read More What We Learned This Year to Save on Home Improvements
