Selling an Online Course: The Platform Fees Nobody Shows You
Course platform fees compared with worked math: marketplace revenue share vs hosted vs self-hosted, and why distribution is the real bottleneck.
Renting Out Your Driveway or Garage: The Neighbor.com Side Income
Peer-to-peer storage income: realistic pricing by space type, the insurance and HOA checklist before you list, and the honest small-scale economics.
Airbnb Host Economics: What Hosting Actually Pays (And Costs)
Airbnb hosting from gross to net: the full cost anatomy, occupancy math, the honest hourly rate versus a long-term tenant, and when hosting wins.
Vending Machine Taxes: What Side-Hustle Operators Need to Track
Vending side-hustle taxes in plain terms: the 15.3% self-employment tax, quarterly estimates, the full deduction list, and a one-hour record system.
The Vending Machine Business One Year In: What I’d Tell Beginners
One year in vending: why location beats machine, the cost traps that eat beginners, and the 90-day checkpoints that reveal if you have a business.
Meal Prepping Money: What a Year of Home Lunches Actually Saves
The honest math on home lunches: $2,520 a year saved all-in, $1,512 with the 80/20 hybrid, plus the one-hour system and the social-lunch exception.
Buying Quality vs Buying Cheap: When Each One Is the Frugal Choice
Where quality pays for itself and where buying cheap wins, with a category map, replacement math, and the test-cheap-then-upgrade sequence.
Cost-Per-Use: The Framework That Justifies (or Kills) Any Purchase
Cost per use explained with worked examples: when quality wins, when cheap wins, and the honest cases where the $1-per-use rule breaks down.
The Subscription Audit: Finding $40 a Month You Forgot You Pay
A one-hour subscription audit method with a decision rule for every recurring charge, plus the annual-pricing trap and what to do with the savings.
Identity Theft Protection: What’s Worth Paying For (And What’s Free)
Free credit freezes beat most paid identity monitoring. What paid services actually sell, and the 45-minute checklist that locks your files down.
