Monthly Archives: April 2011

Friday Links

Young and Thrifty presents The Ultimate Guide to Canadian Deals Websites. Bargaineering shows how to save money on road trips. Wise Bread lists 10 signs you shouldn’t be a business owner. Five Cent Nickel suggests you make yourself indispensable. Money Ning wants to know, how do you feel about tipping? Not Made Of Money lets…

3 Ways for Kids to Start Saving for Their College Fund

Piggy Bank College Fund

Children need to understand from a very young age, that college doesn’t come cheap. In order to start saving enough for a college fund to comfortably enter college later, one needs to take certain measures.to ensure that they finish college without student loan debt. Parents, too, need to have a guiding hand in their kid’s…

How to Find the Best Rental Apartment

Apartment For Rent

Finding a new rental apartment to live is always stressful. There’s always the emotional aspect of leaving a place that you are safe and comfortable in, and moving to a brand new one. The change brought on by suddenly living in a differing locale can be disconcerting and draining. There’s also the financial hit that…

The new breed of financial bloggers: Young, frugal and vocal

Young Blogger

My company puts financial education programs in the workplace.  Here’s a sample of a very common response from people who have attended my workshop: “Jim was absolutely terrific.  I wish I had taken this course years ago in my 20’s or 30’s and I probably would have retired 10 years earlier.  This course should be…

How to Use Savings Accounts for Irregular Expenses

Saving money in jars

An important aspect of personal finance success is to set goals and plan well to make sure you have sufficient savings. Many people are successfully saving for retirement or college expenses, but there are many irregular expenses that often come unplanned that can throw savings goals into a tailspin. The only way to stay on…

Canadian Finance Carnival #33

I mentioned it on Friday as well, but want to make sure any finance bloggers know about this option if you’re having issues with the Blog Carnival site for most of the other carnivals. I’ve set up a BC Workaround to submit your posts if they’re not going through on Blog Carnival. Quite a few…

Friday Links

For any bloggers that have been having issues submitting to Blog Carnival over the last few weeks, try the BC Workaround I’ve set up. It will make sure your formatted submission actually makes it through to the host, not just simply getting dropped without any error message. Squawkfox finds out if Costco is really worth…