From the category archives:
Congratulations on opting for a minimalist Christmas, or at least thinking about how to have a clutter-free Christmas. If you’re like me and appreciate minimalism, but you also love giving gifts – you just need to find a way to buy or make gifts that don’t sit around and collect dust for the next three [...]
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While going through my receipts and budget yesterday, I paid particular attention to some items for which the cost has jumped up in recent months.
Analysts keep saying that deflation is still officially the name of the current game, but here are some real examples of costs going up.
They can keep saying “deflation” all they [...]
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The Canadian dollar is once again at 52-week highs and edging closer to parity every day. Since this happens once in a blue moon, it pays to be able to recognize it when it’s happening and be able to act on the opportunity.
I’ve written previously about how you can build up your reserve of US [...]
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With the arrival of the autumn equinox, it is a good time for many to start thinking ahead to budgeting for the holiday gift-giving season. The holidays are about more than gifts, though – social events, unexpected guests dropping by, more travel plans and decorations for your home all add up to put pressure on [...]
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Anyone here living on less than $12,000/year on their own? Apparently, the 2008 poverty-line level of income for the U.S. was calculated at roughly $11,000/year. I haven’t visited every state in my short life yet, but that seems awfully low. Even if you assume you can find a room to rent for $500/month, that’s only [...]
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Sending off some smallish-sized cheques for Emera (EMA), Bank of Montreal (BMO), Imperial Oil (IMO), CIBC (CM) and Bell Aliant (BA.UN).
My new DRIPPING goals:
make at least 10 optional cash investments before putting them back into my online broker, in order to maximize the leverage I can on no-fee investments.
make at least one investment per year [...]
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Well, in case you don’t know yet, late yesterday and then all day today the stock market crash fell quite a bit MORE below its November lows (we’re definitely in new territory now) to close at 7365.67. We’re now back at 1997 levels. I’m not sure that that means that 25 years or so of [...]
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