What are traditional IRAs? Traditional IRAs are individual retirement accounts offered by investment brokerages in the US. The money you invest in traditional IRAs is typically money that you contribute with after-tax money, and then you have the option to deduct these contributions from your total taxes for the year if your itemized deductions are…
What is Mint.com? Mint.com is a free service offered by the well-known company known, Intuit, the one known for providing the service, Turbotax, as well as few other financial products. It is an all-encompassing online service for tracking all of your finances. It allows you to keep track of your bank accounts, investment accounts, all…
Worthy Bonds – How to Earn Stable 5% Interest on Bond Investments! In a world of completely abysmal savings account earnings rates, where you are lucky to get 0.25% interest on your money in savings accounts nowadays, Worthy Bonds is a breath of fresh air. 5% Interest bonds Worthy Bonds is a type of online…
What is GoodRx? With GoodRx you can search for just about any prescription drug and use the coupons on GoodRx to buy them at up to 80% off, The app features a search function for specific drugs and general searches based on specific health conditions. The types of prescription drugs you can save on even…
What is Coupons.com? Another app for the category of grocery savings is Coupons.com. This app also follows the same style of rewards programs as Ibotta by taking pictures of receipts, but you can also link cards from participating stores before you make your purchases. Just use that particular card at checkout to redeem purchases made…
What is Freebird? This particular post is about a relatively new cashback app that pays you back for using the rideshare services, Uber and Lyft. The way the service works is that you need to link your Uber and/or your Lyft account to Freebird. Technically you can also have one of these services active on…
What is Checkout 51? Although Ibotta is my personal favorite cashback app. it is far from the only app that can be used for cashback on groceries. Another good one is Checkout 51. This app is very similar to Ibotta in that you make your regular purchases for groceries or gas and then take a…
What is GetUpside? Recently, gas was another category that was added to the list of items that third-party cashback apps could be used to get your money back. Rewards programs that were offered directly by the gas stations have been something that could be used to get cashback from the specific gas station franchises have…
What is the Medicare Plus Card? The only discount card made for those on Medicare, that also allows you to even get a free list of Medicare quotes from all major insurance carriers. The card can be used at most major pharmacies to save money on prescriptions, similar to GoodRx, Blink Health, or other services…
What is Zebra? Zebra is a price comparison tool that allows you to shop for and find the best deal on your car, home, renter, pet, life, and even small business insurance by allowing you to get quotes from multiple different companies at once. As of the time of writing this post, they have helped…
