My journey building my net worth through investing and passive income

How to be like a millionaire

No, being like a millionaire doesn’t mean driving around in a ferrari, drinking expensive champagne and splashing your cash on luxury goods.  In fact, that’s a pretty good way to lose your money.  In fact, if you look a the…

Acorns update. How I did in September

Another month and another acorns update.  I use the micro-investing app to put my spare change to use.  It automatically transfers my spare change into an investment account and helps me save without even knowing it. I think Acorns is…

My Acorns Money Making Update for August

I use acorns to automatically invest my spare change.  And I’ve been keeping track of how this investment has performed. I don’t really do much, just check in once a month and see how everything has performed.  All of the…

Make Money with SwagBucks

I’ve written in the past that I believe Swagbucks is probably the easiest way to make money online.  And I thought I would go into a little more detail as to exactly how you can make money on Swagbucks and…

Use SEMRush to Get more traffic

The more traffic you have the more money you can make.  It’s a pretty simple concept.  But what’s not simple is how you actually get that traffic.  It can sometimes seem like a bit of a dark art, with so…

Here’s Your Mediatemple Discount for August

Here’s a special offer for Cash Diary readers.  You can get a massive 33% discount This blog, like many of my other sites runs on MediaTemple hosting.  Years ago I used to use basic shared hosting, but  I soon discovered…

Be more successful by changing your morning routine

A few months ago I was reading about the various morning routines that successful people had.  And I decided I would commit to a new and improved morning routine for 1 month and see how it worked out.  This meant…

The Aussie Method is a Scam

I’m sick of seeing it to be honest.  It pops up (literally) all over the place.  Usually with an annoying video.  And sadly there are a ton of people who are falling for this crap.  

The laziest way to make money online

I was thinking today about what would be the easiest and laziest way to make money online.  It would need to be some method that didn’t require much creativity or effort and that could be used by anyone, no matter…

Acorns Investment Income, July Results

Another month, another roundup of how my continuing investment in Acorns is going.  I’m tracking this so that you can see for yourself if this is a smart investment idea.