PocketGuard How PocketGuard’s “In My Pocket” Feature Finally Stopped Me From Overspending Ever look at your bank account and still have NO idea how much you can actually spend today? It felt like guessing! PocketGuard’s magic “In My Pocket” number fixed that. It looks at your bills, goals, and income, then simply tells you what’s … Read more
Fidelity Investments / Charles Schwab / Vanguard (Combined Focus, some specific) Why I Moved My Retirement Savings to Vanguard (Hint: It Saved Me THOUSANDS in Fees) Imagine little money monsters called “fees” eating tiny bites of your savings! My old money place had lots of sneaky monsters. It made me sad watching my money shrink. … Read more
Experian Boost™ (Specific Feature) How Experian Boost Added 15 FREE Points to My FICO Score Instantly! Seeing my credit score stuck felt like being unable to reach the high shelf! Then I heard about Experian Boost – could it give me a free lift just for paying bills I already paid? I linked my bank … Read more
Fetch Rewards How Fetch Rewards Turned My Trash (Receipts) into Free Gift Cards! Wow! Imagine if your used coloring pages magically turned into tickets for the ice cream truck! That’s what Fetch Rewards does with old shopping receipts! Instead of throwing them away, I just snap quick pictures of them with my phone using the … Read more
Trezor Suite Why I Chose Trezor (Open Source!) + Trezor Suite for My Hardware Wallet Security Wanting ultimate trust for my crypto keys felt paramount! I chose a Trezor hardware wallet because its software (and much of its hardware design) is “open source,” meaning smart people everywhere can check the code for secret backdoors! It … Read more
How I Fixed a Mistake That Lost Me 100K Views Can you believe one tiny mistake made a hundred thousand people disappear from my video? My heart sank like a stone in water when I saw the viewer numbers plummet! I felt so confused and sad, wondering what went wrong. Then, like a detective, I … Read more
Varo Bank (Revisited/Expanded Focus) Varo Bank vs. Chime vs. Current: Which Neobank Pays You Fastest & Offers the Best Perks? (Focused comparison) Picking a new phone bank felt like choosing the coolest superhero team! Varo, Chime, and Current all promised superpowers like getting paid early and cool rewards. Which team was best? Varo felt like … Read more
How I Started Investing with Just $100 Using Robinhood (My First Trades) Investing felt like a secret club for rich grown-ups! How could I join with just my allowance money? Then I found Robinhood! It let me start with just $100. Buying tiny pieces of companies (stocks) felt exciting, like collecting special badges. The app … Read more
Credit Strong How Credit Strong Helped Me Build Credit AND Save $1,000 Simultaneously Dreaming of a good credit score and having $1,000 saved felt like wishing for two different kinds of magic at once! Then I found Credit Strong. It worked like this: I made monthly payments on a ‘loan’, but that money went straight … Read more
Ibotta How I Saved $50+ on Groceries Last Month Using ONLY the Ibotta App Wow! Imagine getting paid to eat yummy food! That’s kind of what Ibotta does! Last month, just by using their app when I bought groceries, I got over $50 back! It felt like finding secret money hidden inside my cereal boxes … Read more