I'm Jordan, late 20s live in SF. I like to do fun stuff and am always trying a bunch of new things.
Right now I'm interested in:
Beer - Mostly like IPAs and stouts - favorite every day beer is
21st Amendment's Back in Black. It's always in my fridge.
Notekeeping and Pens - I recently got into fountain pens and have a Pilot Vanishing Point and a Pilot Metropolitan. Am experimenting with all different papers and notebooks. I currently use the
Bullet Journal to keep track of stuff I need to do both personally and at work.
Credit cards, frequent flier miles and hotel points - I started
a thread in OOT to give people information about credit cards, credit scores, and credit reports. These days it seems like its mostly turned into people asking specific questions about what credit card is best for them, which is fine by me. I've earned probably at least 2mil+ points from credit cards since I started the thread.
Financial independence - I'm saving as much as possible (which is tough in SF) and banking it in my roth IRA first, then my 401k, then in a brokerage account. I keep track of my net worth monthly following in the steps of
BudgetsAreSexy, although I don't have a budget.
Food / cooking, bread making - My gf got me a bread book for xmas and I'm trying to make one loaf a week. I was inspired by some of the great bread available in SF, then by this
bread thread in OOT. I'm an OK cook, but after I get the bread down this is my next thing to tackle. I'm currently seasoning a new De Buyer carbon steel pan and it smells pretty badly. I am following
this page for seasoning directions.
Reselling for profit - I have a pretty good job but nothing motivates me more than finding a great deal to flip. The reselling kick was spurred by getting into credit cards and points as you can earn a lot of points buying thousands of dollars of merchandise to sell provided you can break even on the resale. I use a lot of coupons, deals, credit card category bonuses, and cash back portals to get a ton of points and make some money. Right now I have about 4k in TVs in my apartment that I'm flipping on craigslist due to a good deal at Dell, in the past I've bought thousands of dollars worth of backpacks from ebags, 50+ kindle paperwhites from various staples stores when amazon was OOS, among a bunch of other stuff.
Travel - I guess this goes hand in hand w/ the credit card points. I really enjoy traveling and I'm lucky to be able to do a decent amount for work. But I keep up with travel blogs and flyertalk and have been able to score some great deals. For example, in march my gf and I went to copenhagen for a long weekend for ~$350pp round trip. In Novemeber, we're going to Budapest for a few days, then continuing to Tokyo for a week - for ~$400pp. I really want to see as much of the world as I can, which is part of the reason I'm so focused on saving money so I can retire early (hopefully ~ 40-45) and be able to travel when my body is still able to do cool stuff.
Unfortunately, right now I spend too much time playing DOTA instead of reading and improving myself (mentally and physically). Eventually I hope this will give me some accountability and lead to me becoming a better person.
Not sure what I'm going to write about in general. The things I've done recently that made me want to start this (to keep a log I guess) are:
Seasoning pans
Making hard apple cider from apple juice
Sharpening knives with a whetstone
Buying a bunch of TVs to resell
Baking bread
Taking up lockpicking as a random hobby
About 100 people telling me I needed to start a blog or an email list for travel deals