Monthly Archives: December 2011

Canadian Finance Carnival #66

Budgeting Glen Craig at Free From Broke presents How and Why We Rationalize Spending , saying “When we spend and we know we shouldn’t we have a tendency to rationalize our purchase to make ourselves feel better. See how and why we rationalize spending.” Geoff at Car Negotiation Coach presents When is the Best Time…

Friday Links

Overdraft is a nightmare!  Thankfully Get Rich Slowly shared an amazing guest post that tells one man’s tale of Getting Over Overdraft: How I Started Saving.  An eye-opening article. There’s no denying the allure of working from home.  But what would you do?  The Financial Highway released a list of 50 Home Business Ideas this…

Should You Work For A Small Business Or Large Corporation?

Career Key

Like everyone reading, I’ve had a few jobs in my life. When I was a wee teenager, I worked at the local Dairy Queen, where I attempted to eat my weight in Blizzards on a weekly basis. From there I went to work at a supermarket, followed that up with a brief (unsuccessful) forage into…

How to Buy The Best TV For You

LCD TV

There are a lot of different TV options out there. As technology has improved and progressed, new models of TVs have come and gone. Now, if you do a quick search for “new TV”, you’ll get thousands of different results. There’s a lot of different terminology out there as well that helps to confuse the…

Pay Off Student Loans Or Save?

Student Loan Application

After eight years of monthly payments, we finally managed to pay off our student loans last month.  Even though it’s a nice feeling to rid ourselves of student debt, we deliberately chose to make the minimum payments for years in order to get the rest of our finances in order. Very few students can afford…

Four Reasons The Economy Isn’t THAT Bad

Economy

In the October 29th issue of “The Economist” I read an article that asked the question, if you could be a resident of any place and time in history, which would you choose?” It’s an interesting question because not only do you think back to your high school and college history classes but you start…

Canadian Finance Carnival #65

Budgeting N.W. Journey at Net Worth Journey presents Pay Yourself First, saying “Learn the importance of paying yourself first” Neal Frankle at Wealth Pilgirm presents What is Money Management, saying “You’ve heard this term thrown around for years no doubt. Ever wondered what it really means? What is money management?” Business Marissa at Thirty Six…