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From Canadian Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 10, 2008 at 9:46 am ET
This post was originally posted as Cheaper Day Alternatives last year, but I found it doing some clean up on my site and it still made me laugh, so here it is again for a ... ( more)
From Canadian Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 9, 2008 at 6:54 am ET
Random Thoughts
It is Friday again, and it has been yet another interesting week financially in this world.
There is now serious talk of Gasoline going for $200 a barrel, which would mean it’s price in Ottawa ... ( more)
From Canadian Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 8, 2008 at 6:35 am ET
No that is not my pet name for the guy who stuffs my super mailbox, however, I do get some very interesting e-mails and 1 yesterday I felt I had to make a comment on.
Art ... ( more)
From Canadian Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 7, 2008 at 6:41 am ET
The Canadian Government is a mega-business in terms of size and jurisdiction, and to keep this monster organization in line there is the Office of the Auditor General. Yesterday the Office of the Auditor General ... ( more)
From Canadian Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 6, 2008 at 7:20 am ET
Our friends in Stats Canada put out yet another interesting article yesterday comparing the income of Canadians and specifically Canadian families. Being a member of a Canadian family as usual I find the numbers fascinating ... ( more)
From Canadian Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 5, 2008 at 7:15 am ET
The topic of what my household spends money on has been discussed before, but here is as a percentage of my entire expenditures, what my family spent it’s money on last month (April 2008)
Tax 25.24%
Recreation ... ( more)
From Canadian Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 4, 2008 at 9:40 am ET
Wealth gained hastily will dwindle,
but whoever gathers little by little will increase it.
Proverbs 13:1
Don’t remember this in the bible, but it is a very good thought. Our society seems bent on quick gain tactics to ... ( more)
From Canadian Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 2, 2008 at 6:45 am ET
This week I had some very good feedback and discourse with my readers about the high price of post secondary education and how it pertains to Family Finances and Personal Finance. This topic was suggested ... ( more)
From Canadian Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 1, 2008 at 6:08 am ET
Netfile Tax Reprieve
Freedom from having to pay taxes, for 5 more days, if you Netfile. This extension only applies if you are going to use Netfile to submit your return, and it only applies if ... ( more)
From Canadian Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 30, 2008 at 7:05 am ET
Is there a right way to deal with the question of whether a parent should pay for a child’s post secondary education or whether the child should be left to pay for a University Education ... ( more)
From Canadian Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 29, 2008 at 7:05 am ET
Yesterday we talked about the valuable lessons that can be learned if a student pays for their education themselves, today we look at the alternate view that it is the parent’s duty (or a relatives ... ( more)
From Canadian Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 28, 2008 at 7:31 am ET
This is a topic that my family has been talking about, and I suspect this is not just a one post topic, so it may stretch out over the week.
In my case I was very ... ( more)
From Canadian Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 25, 2008 at 7:08 am ET
Some interesting stuff this week starting off with good-ish news for those with debt:
The Bank of Canada lowered it’s interest rates, but why aren’t Mortgage rates following suit? That same article talked about the importance ... ( more)
From Canadian Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 24, 2008 at 7:07 am ET
As has been pointed out by both Canadian Capitalist and Michael James the Bank of Canada’s 1/2 point rate drop has not been reflected by the major banks yet, in terms of Mortgage rates (especially ... ( more)
From Canadian Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 23, 2008 at 6:46 am ET
With Earth day passing yesterday my wife asked me the question, “How expensive is it to be Green?”, I wanted to consult with Kermit the Frog, but I figured I’d look at my life and ... ( more)
From Canadian Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 22, 2008 at 9:05 am ET
Holy cow, interest rates dropped by 0.50% as set by the Bank of Canada, which means it is even easier to borrow money in Canada.
The recent price-level adjustments for automobiles and the effect of ... ( more)
From Canadian Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 21, 2008 at 6:46 am ET
I have many, many different accounts associated with my name. I have a few bank accounts (hopefully I know of all of those, hate to think I left money somewhere, and you should never do ... ( more)
From Canadian Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 19, 2008 at 7:30 am ET
One of the important parts of Financial Planning is to have credible and attainable goals and targets for your plan. If you don’t have a target, how can you tell if you are accurate?
With this ... ( more)
From Canadian Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 18, 2008 at 7:50 am ET
A good week, and some random thoughts from this week and some posts that caused me to go, “Hmmm…”
Inflation year over year is 1.4% in March, which astounds me, but then again, it shows how ... ( more)
From Canadian Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 17, 2008 at 8:15 am ET
We take a break from my discussions about money and it’s philosophical strengths and it’s abilities to disrupt lives, and we go back to some tangible real statistics.
Stats Canada has released the CPI Numbers for ... ( more)
From Canadian Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 16, 2008 at 7:25 am ET
Michael James talked about found money yesterday and the joy of paying off bills with found money, and how we should not squander this found wealth, and really use it to create happiness in the ... ( more)
From Canadian Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 15, 2008 at 8:04 am ET
One of the things I have learned over the years is that if you drive on your snow tires for too long in the spring (or say over an entire summer), your snow tires degrade ... ( more)
From Canadian Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 14, 2008 at 8:55 am ET
Life always teaches you the oddest things at the oddest times, and this weekend I got reinforced the notion that you “… can’t always get what you want …” to quote Mick Jagger, but sometimes ... ( more)
From Canadian Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 13, 2008 at 7:31 am ET
So this one has little to do with finances, and isn’t really a religious thought, and I am stealing it directly from Joel Osteen, but I laughed out loud when I heard it and sometimes ... ( more)
From Canadian Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 11, 2008 at 7:24 am ET
A week where we looked closer at topics that is near and painful to my hear:
Monday was a discussion of Investment Planning and my normal honesty that I am as good a golfer as I ... ( more)
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