Month: July 2009

Month: July 2009
Financial Management

Seeing Dramatic Price Value Differences Right In Front of You

I was in the supermarket today and made a trip to the cereal aisle. This is normally one of the worst sections price wise I’d say as the products seem like they are extremely marked up. But one thing today that caught my attention was how the company placed two identical cereal products near each

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Financial Management

Adapting Without Credit In General

There was a conversation today where a group of people were saying how dumping the credit card was the key to getting out of debt for them. As it turned out, every time they introduced the credit card back into their lives they ended up getting into some kind of debt. With that thought the

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Financial Management

Being Spoiled Financially

I was out getting a haircut today and the person who I regularly visit was telling me how she caves in most of the time when her kids ask for something. A specific example was how the older son got a computer after much nagging. Afterwards, the younger son whined that he wanted one too

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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Spend Less In Hot or Cold Weather

Okay, it is scorching hot here in Vancouver. The funny thing is even if I only turn my computer on for like five minutes all of the fans in the system start to move. Normally that only happens if you are using it for long periods of time and hence extra fans kick in to

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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Keeping Yourself Updated With Technology To Save Money

Recently I was talking to a person that wanted to phone long distance to talk to her parents and as you would expect it costs money to dial to an international destination. The interesting thing is, she used an online messaging software and so did her parents. However, she mentioned that they wanted to use

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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Types of Money Raising Ideas

I’m not sure why for this month specifically I have seen so many people online trying various things to raise money for charity. Maybe it’s the summer holiday and people have more free time to donate themselves. It is kind of neat to see the different ways that people are trying to attract a particular

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