Monthly Archives: September 2011

Canadian Finance Carnival #53

Budgeting Green Panda at Green Panda Treehouse presents Your Daily Commute’s Impact on Your Wallet, saying “How expensive is your daily travel?” Jonathan at Deliver Away Debt presents Mint.com Review: The Ultimate Budgeting Software, saying “A review of the website and what it offers.” Business ronika at Montreal Financial presents CRA Interest, Penalties and Payment…

Why It’s Important To Teach Children About Savings

With the current economic climate turbulence (to say the least), people may be finding it harder than ever to save. If you’re raising children, things can be even tighter – but you should make sure that you don’t neglect to teach your children about savings, even if you’re not doing it yourself. But at what…

Friday Links

Invest it Wisely wants to know what debts and bills should you pay first if you run out of money? Choosing a mortgage term can be one of the hardest financial decisions you make.  Mortgage Alerts Canada wants to help you in choosing the best mortgage term. The Simple Dollar shows you the best way…

The Basics On Balance Sheets

Balance Sheet

So, you’ve probably been reading Canadian Finance Blog for a while. You know it’s awesome, especially on Thursdays, when Captain Handsome himself shows up. In fact, we’ve been nominated for about 27 Plutus Awards. If you don’t go and vote for us right now, we will come to your house and throw a pie in…

Helping Your Budget With The TrueEarnings Card from Costco and American Express

American Express TrueEarnings

I prefer to use credit cards rather than a debit card or cash for a couple reasons. First off, it keeps my spending a little more organized. I can use one card for all my spending and then pay off the entire balance once a month. But another big bonus of using a credit card…

Extended Warranty On A TV? No Thanks!

Couple Watching TV

First, let me start off by saying that I’m the worst personal finance role model after purchasing my second television in the last two years.  What can I say?  We recently moved into a new house and unfortunately there is a bit of lifestyle inflation that comes along with the bigger place. For years I…

Totally Money Blog Carnival #34

Plutus Awards

Welcome to the 34th edition of the Totally Money Blog Carnival! Lots of awesome submissions this week. If you want to get your post in for the next edition, submit here before Sunday evening. I wanted to mention that the voting is in full swing for the Plutus Awards, where Canadian Finance Blog is up…