Yesterday I accidentally washed my Samsung Galaxy Nexus in the washing machine. The phone is about 7 months old, and the mistake made me sick to my stomach…literally. Three days later, my phone is finally back to 100%...
Read MoreThis post combined my normal balance sheet post with a midyear update toward all of my 2012 personal finance goals. Here is my YTD balance sheet: You can also view my balance sheet for each quarter since September 2010. Overall...
Read MoreWhen making any financial decision it’s always useful to have as much information as possible. There’s no time when this is more important than deciding whether you have the ability to retire or not. In its surveys,...
Read MoreI’m down $1,000 in net worth over the past two months. Obviously that’s not the direction I’d like to be heading, but occasionally you have those months where you spend big and you just have to be able to get...
Read MoreIt’s healthy to occasionally step back and look at the direction you’ve taken thus far in life and compare that with where you’d like to end up. Are you on the path you want to be? If you could go back and...
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I’m Will, the creator of HackingTheBank. No, this site isn’t about actually hacking banks. This blog is all about maximizing personal finance decisions so that we win instead of the banks.
I started this blog in 2010 when I graduated college with $43k of student loans and a negative net worth. Since then I’ve achieved milestones like getting married, buying a house, and tripling my income. During this time my wife and I managed to earn over 12,000,000 miles and points and used those points to travel to over 50 countries. And all of these points came from banks; neither of us travel for work.