I was told today about a radio talk show that apparently had callers phoning in about their financial situations. One person apparently phoned in about how they had trouble spending so much money. When it came down to it, it was discovered that he/she kept buying things mostly to impress others. In general, isn’t it
It’s been awhile, but I finally decided to update the design of the blog as well as the program itself. Looks like there are some new features to play around with as well such as the cloud tag feature where I can now use keywords to label a post. The only drawback to that is
I was checking my e–mail and noticed that I got an invite to beta test a new ad program called shopping ads. Basically, it’s for web publishers to display ads on their site. The way this one works from what I read is that it revolves around finding items from price shopping comparison sites. In
I was just reading the news today on how in the beginning of next year there is apparently a plan in place to cut our GST tax rate from 6% to 5%. For those who don’t know, we pay two types of sales tax here. Kind of surprising I thought considering we just had it
Doesn’t seem like this rising Canadian dollar bit is ever slowing down news wise as today there was a lot of buzz of it reaching to about 1.05 US. This made me curious in seeing what the trend has been like overall. I quickly went to Yahoo Finance and saw this quick chart which shows
Today a person was telling me about a situation where there is a person they know who seems to get by as a result of sweet talking their way into borrowing money from one person to another by using sob stories. Literally, the person apparently owes people money well over the $10,000+ mark. The money