Salty Zebra

 Radiation is a big deal. My husband keeps reminding me of that. Everything I've read on the subject tells me that I will be wiped out. My brain will not function. I will not be able to maintain the complicated systems that I've put in place for our life and finances. So, today I simplify.  For the last year, I've really enjoyed using the Door Dash and Instacart benefits on several of the credit cards I've opened. In fact, I've gotten up to $40 in free groceries from DoorDash and $60 in free groceries from Instacart every month! This is really handy, and fun if I'm being honest, but it takes time, effort, and a lot of thought. I have to pick my moment, ordering from Door Dash when DashMart has a good sale, ordering $12 here and $22 there from Instacart. You see, in order to receive these benefits, each card has to be used on a different order. This came out to as many as nine different orders per month. And these orders had to be carefully curated to come in as ...

Disclaimer: I am not a financial professional nor formally trained in any way. The information in this post is designed to inspire, not direct you. I highly recommend working with a financial advisor, like my amazing one, Josh Collier , when dealing with your family's investments. Image credit: Gemini and me  There was once a Countryman who possessed the most wonderful Goose you can imagine, for every day when he visited the nest, the Goose had laid a beautiful, glittering, golden egg.  The Countryman took the eggs to market and soon began to get rich. But it was not long before he grew impatient with the Goose because she gave him only a single golden egg a day. He was not getting rich fast enough.  Then one day, after he had finished counting his money, the idea came to him that he could get all the golden eggs at once by killing the Goose and cutting it open. But when the deed was done, not a single golden egg did he find, and his precious Goose was dead. ( The Goose W...

Disclaimer: I am not a financial professional nor formally trained in any way. The information in this post is designed to inspire, not direct you. I highly recommend working with a financial advisor, like my amazing one,  Josh Collier , when dealing with your family's investments. Image Credit: Gemini and me ;)  Last week I wrote a post sharing about what I had learned about covered call options. It was written from a place of naivete and may have caused some of you concern because of that. Sorry. Since then, I've learned more, A LOT MORE. Yes, I read through the 96-page  Characteristics  and Risks  of Standardized  Options  document and several other blogs and websites and my eyes were opened. I found out that the covered calls that I had been learning about were just a tiny corner of this vast arena known as options trading, a corner that I'm pretty happy staying in.  I'm a learner, a researcher, and as I read up on covered calls, I found out...