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Garage Sale Tips: How to Increase Your Sales

February 20, 2020 By Nathan Clarke from Millionaire Dojo Leave a Comment

Having a garage sale is simple. You open your garage, throw some signs up, and wait for people to come and give you money for your stuff. Like most things in life, though, if you put a little effort into your garage sale, you will get rid of your items quicker and make more money. Stay tuned to get the best garage sale tips to help you increase your sales!

If you’re going through the trouble of having a garage sale, you might as well do the necessary things to ensure it’s a success. With a few tips, you can go above and beyond an average garage sale and make it one to remember!

But first, you should ask yourself if you should even have a garage sale.

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Morning Brew Review: The Modern Newspaper

February 16, 2020 By Kevin | Just Start Investing Leave a Comment

What if instead of receiving spam emails and lame 25% off deals in your inbox every morning, you received relevant (and entertaining) news that made you smarter in 5 minutes? That’s what Morning Brew is striving to do, and we’ve got a comprehensive review of their free service below.

I’m not the first to say this, but to me, Morning Brew is a modern newspaper. Morning Brew delivers informative, extremely efficient, and entertaining information to you every morning in the form of an email newsletter.

If you want to sign up now and check it out, you can do so here (it’s free!).

The company was founded by Alex Lieberman and Austin Rief (both members of Forbes 30 under 30 class of 2019) in 2015 with the insight that people just didn’t have enough time to read a newspaper anymore.

Today, the have well over a million subscribers dedicated to getting the latest news and interesting stories.

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High Earner Not Rich Yet – How to Avoid Becoming a HENRY

February 9, 2020 By Kevin | Just Start Investing 3 Comments

I recently heard a term pop up in a podcast ad, “High Earner Not Rich Yet,” or, HENRY for short.

The term caught my attention and I was curious to learn more about these mysterious HENRYs, so I did some research.

I was interested to learn more about various HENRY situations, and how to get out of them.

Turns out, living paycheck to paycheck is not just a problem for the middle class and lower class in America. It can be a problem for people who earn high incomes, which prevents them from accumulating net worth and makes them feel broke.

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Including Side Hustles on Your Resume: The Ultimate Guide

January 23, 2020 By Amanda from My Life I Guess

It seems like everyone has side hustles these days. Whether it’s to make extra money, pursue an interest or passion, or to learn a new skill, it’s work that we choose to do on the “side” of our day jobs. Yet few people think to include their side hustles on their resume.

Working on your own doesn’t make it any less relevant than your other work experience because side hustles are still work! Sometimes a lot of work (and time and energy).

Like any traditional job, they teach you valuable, transferable skills that employers are looking for – skills like time management, multi-tasking, and showing initiative. They also help to further develop your talents by putting them to use in tangible ways.

Not including these skills, talents, and experiences on your resume could be a mistake that could cost you that new job you’re hoping to get.

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How to Overcome Having a Horrible Boss

January 9, 2020 By Amanda from My Life I Guess

A bad boss. At some point in our lives, we will all have at least one, and we need to know how to overcome a horrible boss when we have one.

In my seemingly never-ending struggle to find a good, permanent, full-time role, horrible bosses have been a big factor.

After having a boss that was physically abusive towards 2 of my colleagues, and extremely verbally and emotionally abusive to us all, I thought that there was no possible way I could ever have a boss more horrible than that.

But last year, I was proven wrong.

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