Career Mike at The Financial Blogger presents Working For Money or For Passion?, saying “Do you work for money or to follow your passions?” Debt and Credit Craig at Free From Broke presents How Can I Improve My Credit Score? 8 Ways to Increase Your Rating, saying “Your credit score is an important number to…
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Monthly Archives: October 2010
Six Guidelines for Making Grounded Money Decisions
The following excerpt is from The Secret Language of Money, written by David Krueger, M.D. and published by McGraw-Hill. A safety deposit box requires two keys being placed and turned to open the box: one by the bank and one by the owner. Financial decisions need the same thing: the keys of the left and…
Friday Links
While I’ve been a member of the Yakezie Network since February, we now have an official site. If you’d like to know more about me and Canadian Finance Blog, check out yesterday’s Yakezie Member Post! Get Rich Slowly finds examples of bargain shopping gone berserk. Frugal Dad shares five daily activities to improve your finances….
3 Easy Money Making Hobbies to Boost Your Personal Finances
More often than not, hobbies deplete resources rather than helping to bolster them. Having a hobby can be expensive, but if you’re looking for ways to increase your income without changing careers or taking on a true side job, finding money making hobbies is a great way to get ahead financially. Provided you enjoy the…
Do You DIY?
Ever since I was a little kid, I was always interested in building small things. Besides the usual Lego suspects, I also enjoyed making model planes and cars, piecing together little kits, and pretending that I knew how to build a tree fort. Even when I was a teenager, I was (and still am) very…
Retirement Is About More Than Just Money
I’ve been writing about retirement for a long time but most recently, I was asked by the HRIA (Human Resource Institute of Alberta) to write about the non-financial side of retirement planning. I dug into the vault and summarized some great retirement lifestyle articles. Here’s what I wrote along with links to some of my…
Average Tax Rate Explained
The amount of tax you pay can be expressed in two different ways, marginal tax rate and average tax rate. While marginal tax rate is the tax rate paid on the last dollar you earn, your average tax rate is simply calculated as your total income tax divided by your total taxable income. What Is…
