General Thoughts and Fun Topics

General Thoughts and Fun Topics
General Thoughts and Fun Topics

A Valentine’s Day Without Any Shopping

With so many shutdowns and gathering restrictions here I noticed as I walked by various restaurants and retails stores that most places were almost dead as expected. They say Valentine ’s Day is a retail invented holiday and that didn’t seem to favour businesses. But what I did notice is how more people created simple

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When People Know You Prefer To Save Money

The other day I bumped into someone I haven’t seen for almost a year and as a result we did some catching up. It wasn’t very normal per se as we were walking in a socially distant way and all while sharing stories on what has been happening. Towards the end he immediately commented that

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Calm Lunar New Year 2021

Today was the Lunar New Year in the Vancouver area and for the most part as expected it was very quiet. A lot of events went virtual and I was actually curious if a lot of businesses that normally relied on holiday traffic would still be busy. The only type of business that still seemed

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Does Seeing Poor People Help Kids With Financial Literacy

Recently I was talking to a child where it didn’t seem like he really valued things like the cost of food to the point where he feels it is infinite and that throwing it away prematurely is no big deal. This is usually when people would use the saying on how there are starving kids

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Leaving Store Deal Offers That You Don’t Need Right Now

Today I got one of those app offers again where you could buy a dozen eggs for $1.29. Too hard to say no and so I went to buy some. However, at the same time the company gave me another offer where I could get twenty times the reward points if I spent $50 or

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Having A Lot of Money and Being Hated

So there was this story going around recently where a two people from Vancouver BC took a flight to the Yukon in order to jump ahead of people to get a vaccine for COVID where in the process they got caught and fined for doing so when they attempted to fly back home. Rodney Baker,

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