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How To Get A Free $10,000 Insurance Policy

Last Updated: October 26, 2020 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - 5 Comments

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Would you like a free $10,000 insurance policy?

My friends at Harmonic have partnered with Making Sense of Cents, and they would like to give you a free $10,000 accidental death insurance policy to encourage you to build your own personal safety net.

I even signed up myself!

Why is it free?

They are simply looking to get more people to know about Harmonic, and are giving this away to introduce people to them. I share lots of free things on Making Sense of Cents – this is simply just another free thing that I’ve negotiated for my readers.

Here’s how Harmonic’s CEO, Andrew Drake, describes it: “We’ve started a community for people who want to live well in retirement and bounce back from diseases, accidents or other unexpected curve balls that life throws at us. We call this building your family’s Safety Net. Harmonic members will build their own and we will help where we can.”

Harmonic thinks readers of Making Sense of Cents are a great candidate for the Harmonic community because you are already showing interest in taking control of your future by reading my blog.

You can click here to sign up to claim your policy today! It takes less than 5 minutes.

Here are answers to some questions that you may have. [Read more…]

How To Launch Your Website in WordPress

Last Updated: October 23, 2020 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - Leave a Comment

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Are you wondering how to launch your website in WordPress?

Perhaps you have the “Coming soon” message still on your homepage, and you’re not sure how to get rid of it.

No worries, this is extremely easy to do and is simply just a few clicks.

In today’s tutorial, I will show you how to launch your website in WordPress.

If you haven’t started a blog yet, I recommend first starting with my tutorial – How To Start A WordPress Blog.

Related content on how to create a blog:

How to launch your website in WordPress.

Step 1: Find the “Launch your site” button.

When you are ready to launch your website, you can do so my clicking on the Bluehost Plug-in on your WordPress sidebar menu.

You will then be directed to this page where you will see the “Launch your site” button.

Once you are ready to launch your site, you can click this button and it will push your pages live on the internet.

Step 2: Your site is now live!

Your site will then be live and you will see this at the top of the page.

Step 3: Change your mind?

If for whatever reason you launch your site live and you would like to switch it back to the “coming soon!” page, don’t worry, you can still do so by clicking on “Cache Settings” under the Caching menu item at the top of the page.

Step 4: Change your coming soon page.

You will then scroll all the way to the bottom of the page where you will see “Bluehost Coming Soon Page”. You will see an option to Enable “on” or “off.

If you would like to Enable this coming soon page back on just click “on” and save! And to remove this, revisit this page and switch it to “off” and save and your page will be live again!

And there you go! Your website is now launched in WordPress.

Do you have a blog?

How To Handle Unexpected Financial Emergencies

Last Updated: October 22, 2020 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - 1 Comment

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The following is a sponsored partnership with Alliant Credit Union. All opinions are 100% my own. Alliant Credit Union is a leading, national credit union with more than 500,000 members. As an online credit union, Alliant’s mission is to provide members consistently superior financial value while simplifying and enabling how people save, borrow and pay. Find out more at alliantcreditunion.org.

Nearly everyone has experienced a financial emergency or uncertainty. Life tends to throw curveballs and it can be difficult to have a plan. After all, no one can predict the future with 100% certainty.

However, not everyone is prepared for a financial emergency, whether it be big or small.

Having a plan and being prepared can be extremely helpful in life, especially when it comes to your finances.

A financial emergency or uncertainty may include:

Losing your job or your hours being cut
Health issues and medical bills
A large unexpected house or vehicle expense
Divorce
Natural disasters

And so on. There are many different reasons for why you may experience a financial emergency.

Today, I want to talk about various steps you can take to prepare for and handle unexpected financial emergencies. [Read more…]

How To Rent An RV: The Best Tips For Your First RV Rental

Last Updated: October 19, 2020 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - 6 Comments

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Want to learn how to rent an RV? Today, I’m going to talk about the best way to rent an RV, if renting is cheaper than a hotel, what to know before renting an RV, and more.

While I no longer live full-time in an RV (we’re now living full-time and traveling via sailboat!), I lived in one for several years and still own one. When we’re not on the boat, we live full-time in the van.

RVing is something that I absolutely love, and I think that traveling or living in an RV will ALWAYS be a part of my life!

What I love so much about living in an RV or van is that you have your whole house with you while you visit beautiful places. You can park right next to hiking and biking trails, next to the mountains or beaches, and more.

When we first sold our house to live in an RV full time, people thought we were crazy. We got rid of more than half of our stuff and started driving across the country.

But, as I started sharing our experience with our friends and family, more and more people started to realize it wasn’t crazy at all – it was amazing! [Read more…]

How To Write and Publish Your First Blog Post On WordPress

Last Updated: October 16, 2020 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - Leave a Comment

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After you have created your blog, you may be wondering what to do next. Today, I’m going to teach you how to publish a blog post on WordPress.

If you’re new to blogging and/or WordPress, then learning all of the little steps can be intimidating at first. However, that is completely normal!

Blogging is new to most people, so there will be things that you have to learn. I don’t consider myself very “techy” and I still managed to learn, haha.

If you haven’t started a blog yet, I recommend first starting with my tutorial – How To Start A WordPress Blog.

Once you have designed your website, you’re probably going to start wanting to publish some blog posts. No worries, though, this is easy!

With the easy steps below, you will learn how to publish a blog post on your new blog. [Read more…]

13 Salad Meal Prep Ideas | A Healthy Way To Save Time & Money

Last Updated: October 14, 2020 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - 1 Comment

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Are you looking for some healthy, easy, and delicious salad meal prep ideas?

Salads are a great way to eat healthy as they are packed with vegetables. But, many people overlook salads as meals because they think salads are too boring or won’t be filling enough.

I know I’ve thought that way about salads before, haha!

But, I’ve been eating more salads these days after finding many of the salad meal prep ideas I’ve listed in this article.

Despite what you might think, salads aren’t boring and they can be very filling.

One of the things I love most about salads is that they take so much less time than traditional meals.

What takes the most time is cutting up your ingredients, but these salad meal prep ideas help you make the most of your time so you can eat healthier with a delicious salad. [Read more…]

18 Debt Free Stories That Will Inspire You

Last Updated: October 12, 2020 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - 2 Comments

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I love a good debt free story! If you are interested in learning how to pay off debt, the 18 stories I’m about to share will teach, motivate, and inspire you.

When I was paying off my $40,000 student loan debt in 7 months, I spent a lot of time online reading how other people paid off their debt.

Because I wanted to pay off my debt as quickly as possible, I knew I needed some extra motivation.

Finding a good debt free story would give me the boost of energy I needed to keep working on my side hustles, finding new ways to save, and put all of my extra money towards debt.

I also learned so many great tips and tricks to help me pay off my debt that I wouldn’t have learned about otherwise. Not all of the tips I read about worked for me, but some did.

By reading other people’s debt payoff stories and learning how to become debt free, I believe that you can find motivation to pay off your own debt. [Read more…]

How to launch your website in WordPress.

Step 1: Find the “Launch your site” button.

Step 2: Your site is now live!

Step 3: Change your mind?

Step 4: Change your coming soon page.

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