Monthly Archives: October 2009

Baby Week Giveaway – Plus More Freebies For New Or Expecting Parents

Since our first baby was born just last week, this week will feature all baby-related articles! As first time parents, the wife and I did quite a bit of reading and research and I thought sharing some information might help other expectant parents or those thinking of having children soon. So check back each day…

Friday Links

Mighty Bargain Hunter announces the open beta for Cash Commons. Financial Highway gives us some frugal Thanksgiving dinner tips. Wise Bread discusses why it’s wise to barter. Free Money Finance asks where do you store your will? One Mint provides a great Africa ETF list. Bible Money Matters looks at 10 attributes of the perpetually…

Two Lessons Learnt From Warren Buffett’s Interview

As I saw Warren Buffett’s “One Year Later” interview with CNBC, there were two things that really struck me. Buffett mentions that Barclays wanted to buy Lehman before the collapse, but they needed Buffett to insure the transaction, without which the British government wouldn’t let them proceed. Buffett states that the transaction they were describing…

Insurance You CAN NOT Do Without

A while back Tom did an interesting series on “Insurance you can do without” in the series he pointed out several insurance products you can do without. I thought we should take a look at a few insurance that you CAN’T do without. Life Insurance Many either ignore life insurance in their financial planning or…

No Posts, Baby On The Way!

There will be no posts for the next day or two as we’re in the hospital for the birth of our first child! Depending on when we get back home, I may have a post or two towards the end of the week. Check back next week as we’ll have a series of posts related…

Top 5: September 2009

The amount of readers at The Canadian Finance Blog continued to grow in September. Not only in actual visits, but we also hit some milestones with over 200 RSS subscribers and over 2000 Twitter followers! I wrote a guest post this past month for Financial Highway titled Is This A Double Dip Recession? Linda Kaplan…

Friday Links

Generation X Finance shows where you can plug your money leaks and save hundreds of dollars painlessly. Fiscal Geek details how to create a home inventory using free tools to protect your assets. My Dollar Plan lists 5 ways spending more is actually frugal. Financial Highway suggests some self reinforcing tips to reach financial goals. Canadian Capitalist asks if it’s time…