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5 Productive Ways to Use Your Side Hustle Money

August 13, 2015 by Justin Weinger 2 Comments

Starting your own side gig can be a great way to earn some extra cash. Here are 5 ways that you can use your side hustle money productively.Starting a side hustle is a great way to use your free time to help you earn some extra money. After all, nearly everyone could use some extra money coming in every month, unless you’re Warren Buffet or Donald Trump maybe. 😉 But for the rest of us common folk, side hustle money can be a blessing in helping us reach our financial goals. The key is to use the money productively. Here are 5 productive ways you can use your side hustle money.

Start or Add to an Emergency Fund

One of the best things to do with your side hustle money may also be of the most boring – start or continue building an emergency fund.

The whole point of an emergency fund is to have money that is easily accessible if you would ever need it for an emergency, like an injury or a natural disaster. It can be difficult to want to build an emergency fund because chances are you won’t use that money very often and it’s hard to look it just sitting in your account.

Rather than take money from your regular monthly budget, you could instead use your side hustle money to add to your emergency fund.

Pay off Debt

To me, paying off debt is a little more exciting than building an emergency fund. I like to see my progress bars and charts fill up and I like knowing that I owe less interest this month than in previous months.

You should definitely make sure your minimum debt payments are part of your regular monthly budget, but you could always use some of your side hustle money to make extra payments on your debt too.

Increase Retirement Savings

Retirement might seem like it’s ages away, but it’ll be here before you know it. Retirement savings are a little more fun to build than an emergency fund because at least you know you’ll get to use and enjoy some of that money at some point in the future. Obviously, you don’t want to face a situation where you have to use your emergency fund (because it’d be an emergency – duh!)

Save for a Large Purchase

Much like saving for retirement, using your side hustle money to save for a large purchase, like a car or a down payment on a new house, is definitely more fun than building an emergency fund. Another bonus of using side hustle money to save for a large purchase is that you are helping your future-self avoid taking on debt for this planned purchase.

Take a Vacation

Before you think I’m crazy, hear me out. Taking a vacation and getting away from the daily grind every now and then is a great idea to help you avoid losing productivity and experiencing burn out. Using your side hustle money to take a vacation is a great way to reward yourself for hard work, as long as you truly can afford it. Plus you’ll be able to relax on your vacation knowing that you won’t have a credit card bill to face for your trip when you get back home.

What other productive ways can you think of to use your side hustle money?

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  1. Femme @ femmefrugality says

    August 17, 2015 at 6:04 pm

    Great list! Once I was making enough to cover our monthly expenses, we applied it towards savings, then a small debt for a minute (it disappeared fast with hustling!) And now house savings. So we’re pretty much on par with your ideas!

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    • Kayla @ Shoeaholicnomore says

      August 18, 2015 at 9:43 am

      That’s great Femme! When I was side hustling along with my FT job, I tried to use most of it for debt payments. Now that my former side hustle is my job, I am hoping to increase my earnings so I can continue making extra debt payments.

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