Profitable Ideas: Disaster-Proof Your Finances, The IRS Sees Your Side Hustle, and More

January 24, 2025

Weekly list of curated personal finance articles from around the web.

How to organize your financial life ahead of natural disasters (AP). You never think it could happen to you, until it does. 

Fake job postings are becoming a real problem (Wall Street Journal). One tip: Look on the employer’s website to see if the job is posted there as well.

Avoiding small talk? You might be missing out (Inside Higher Ed). It’s an important career skills.

Record test scores buoy a school when failing students put phones away (Good News Network). Another example of the benefits of creating screen-free zones. See also, Screens have taken over classrooms. Even students have had enough (Wall Street Journal).

Why digitizing your tax records can simplify your filing in 2025 (Kiplinger). If you’re still filing paper returns, maybe this is the year to switch to e-filing.

The IRS now knows a lot more about what you sell (Wall Street Journal). Got a side hustle? The IRS sees you.

The 80% rule of retirement: should this rule be retired? (Kiplinger). Rules of thumb will only get you so far. It’s important to build a plan around your unique situation and goals.

For richer, for poorer: how to steward money in marriage (Randy Alcorn, via FaithFi). Good preparatory reading for Valentine’s Day.

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