Financial Management

Financial Management
Financial Management

Pre-Cut Fruit Prices

While at the supermarket the other day I walked past a section that had all these pre-cut fruits and vegetables for sale. I always felt that these were overpriced compared to simply buying the product fresh and slicing it yourself. So for fun since the first thing I saw was pre-cut pineapple I went to

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Financial Management

Living With So Much Debt As A Senior

I was reading this article today at http://www.biv.com/article/20130306/BIV0102/130309955/bc-seniors-face-mounting-debt which talked about how a lot of seniors enter into retirement with a massive amount of debt. That was kind of shocking to me honestly where it stated like in this province people over the age of 65 have an average household debt of $51,636. On top

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Financial Management

Viewing An RRSP As A Commercial Gimmick

I thought this was interesting today as I was talking to some older people who were discussing how here in Canada we have what’s called an RRSP which is meant to help people save money for their retirement. Essentially, one of the main benefit to doing this is that contributing money into this plan allows

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Financial Management

Bank Paper Statement Fees

To my surprise today I was just doing my daily banking and noticed that there was this “statement fee” in my account. I’m usually pretty good at keeping updating with new fees and such that companies introduce but this one kind of caught me by surprise. Based on the name of the fee I assumed

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Financial Management

Actually Adding Up Your Savings

Today a person was telling me how one way that he is able to motivate himself to find the best deals is that he actually tracks how much money he saves each month based on his efforts when it comes to things like using coupons or strategic price matching. As a result it becomes like

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Financial Management

Being Afraid To Use Free Services

It’s almost time for people here to start submitting their taxes again and for most this means choosing that tax software again. I was then hearing how people want the cheapest option available and it just happens that there are online tax applications such as Studiotax that you can use for free. Ironically, even though

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