It could be transferring your savings to a High Yield Savings Account to earn extra interest.
It could be eating out or grocery shopping at a significant discount.
Or it could be maxing out your retirement accounts.
Over the last 6 months, we’ve continued to do as much “Life Hacking” as we can.
Here are some of the things we’ve done:
- We maxed out our HSA and both IRAs at the beginning of the year
- We’ve continued to use our weekly Chipotle Hack
- We paid our IRS tax bill with credit cards & got enough in bonuses to cover the cost of our CPA for the year
- We’ve significantly hacked my daughter’s upcoming college tuition costs, hopefully saving over $50k in the process (CLEP tests, community college class transfers, optimizing the block tuition, etc)
- We’ve kept our cash in treasuries or money market accounts so most of our ca ...