Welcome to The Canadian Finance Blog and the 21st edition of the Best of Money Carnival! We had some great submissions and these are the top 10 articles for the week.
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10. Brad Chaffee presents Children And Money: Are You Helping Your Children Learn The Basics? posted at Enemy of Debt.
How I am working with my children to teach them about money management.
9. BWL presents 5 Gmail hacks to increase productivity posted at Christian Personal Finance.
These are 5 simple things I did to make my Gmailing more efficient!
8. Peak Personal Finance presents Teach Your Child About Responsible Credit Use posted at Peak Personal Finance.
Educating your child about credit can help them avoid years of financial struggles.
7. Craig Ford presents How to Avoid the Restaurant to Save Money posted at Money Help For Christians.
Eating at home is great for the family and the checkbook. This post has suggestions on how to make eating at home a special occasion.
6. Darwin presents Could the US Dollar be Replaced as the World’s Reserve Currency? What it Would Mean posted at Darwin’s Finance.
Could the US Dollar be Replaced as the World’s Reserve Currency? Based on alleged secret meetings between Central Bankers of foreign countries that fund our debt, the US Dollar may have seen its best days. What it Would Mean?
5. Baker presents 9 Ways You Can Knock the Socks off Your Next Landlord posted at Get Rich Slowly.
Baker from Get Rich Slowly offers up 9 ways that you can really impress your next landlord or property manager when you go to rent. Once you’ve impressed, start negotiating!
4. Patrick @ Cash Money Life presents What to do About Increased Credit Card Interest Rates posted at Cash Money Life.
Tips on your options if your credit card company raises your interest rates or changes the terms of your credit card agreement. Options include closing the card, transferring the balance to another credit card, or accepting the terms.
3. The Financial Blogger presents ETFs VS Index Mutual Funds: The Ultimate Battle! posted at The Financial Blogger.
Let’s look at why you probably think ETFs are the best investment in the world: The very first argument is the one that doesn’t lie: yield graph over the past 5 years comparing the TSX 60, the XIU (TSX 60 ETF) and the Altamira Canadian Index Fund (NBC814).
2. Ray @ Financial Highway presents Self Reinforcing Tips to Reach Financial Goals posted at Financial Highway.
Money management is more psychological than mathematical, then we should use psychological strategies to help us manage and improve our finances. Reinforcement is a very powerful psychological tool that can be used to either change unwanted behaviour or learn desired behaviour. Some Reinforcement tips everyone can use to reach their financial goals and improve finances.
1. Tyler presents Quit Worrying About 80% of Your Life posted at Frugally Green.
When it comes to managing my goals, I am a classic over analyzer. I want complete control over every detail, right down to the finest minutia. But, what I didn’t realize until just recently is that I was wasting all kinds of time and energy worrying about things that didn’t make much of a difference whether they went right or wrong. Taking a step back to look at the “big picture” of my finances and environmental goals allowed me the space to see the few core activities that had the potential to really change my life. Embracing Pareto’s Principle, or the 80/20 rule, I’ve taken major steps to reorganize my effort and spend more time on things that matter. When you take care of the important stuff, the unimportant takes care of itself.
Hope you enjoy all these great articles! Bloggers, submit your article for next week’s edition, hosted by The Skilled Investor.
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Awesome, thanks for the inclusion; great roundup this week.
Thanks so much for including my article along with some other great posts!
Hey Tom,
Thanks for including me. I’m glad you enjoyed my post. I read Baker’s post on impressing your landlord when it went up last week and it is truly excellent. Everyone should check it out.
I also enjoyed the post on the Gmail Hacks. A few of those will be really helpful to me.
Very interesting topics as usual! It’s always a good idea to start early. Teaching your children good money habits (provided that you’re good with money) early on will be beneficial to them and perhaps also for you too. Although I’m still struggling with some of my fast loans, I can safely say that the mismanagement of loans, rather than borrowing money per se is the cause why most people get indebted or bankrupt.
Thanks for hosting, Tom. It’s an honor to be included!
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Of all of these, teaching the child about credit card use is by and far the most important. So many people get into debt related problems and cannot afford to own their own home or worse – default loans because of poor money mismanagement. Thanks for these, really good reads!