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Financial Management

Being Able To Budget Without Extra Income

There was quite a bit of news today on how various politicians around the world have essentially no solution to balancing a budget other than to increase taxes for companies and regular people which predictably made people upset. To make it worst, apparently in some cases people were promised free services if elected but that

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Business

Quick Loss Leader Deals Versus Requiring Minimum Purchases

I was reading how there was a supermarket opening up and what caught my attention was the deal they were offering. While there are general sales, they had an ad that clearly stated that if you buy anything from the store you will get a free $10 coupon to use on future purchases. Not a

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Business

Keep People Coming Back With Minimum Spending Coupons

After going to a restaurant yesterday at the end they gave out these lucky red envelopes as usually businesses give these away in the spirit of lunar new years and often just have candy inside versus money when you get it from relatives. In this case, apparently it was a voucher to get something for

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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Happy Lunar New Years 2026

Happy Lunar New Years everyone. There was plenty of free events to go to and the interesting thing was there were a lot of lion dances that decided to start at the exact same time for some reason as I was originally hoping to see one after another as I made my way through town.

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Business

So Many Holidays At Once

This week there is so much going on in regards to holidays as we have things like BC Day which makes it as statutory holiday and as well it is the Lunar New Years where you can expect a lot of festivities. This is interesting for some businesses as statutory holidays usually means businesses need

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Business

Getting Preferential Treatment For Sticking With The Same Companies

This got me thinking while at a restaurant today as a lot of people are going for early Chinese New Years celebrations and as a result people are ordering extravagant meals like king crab. With a lot of people ordering it, this means the servers usually bring the crab out for people to see what

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