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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Using A Taxi Instead of A Map

This isn’t the first time I heard of this where today a person told me that they took a taxi to travel to a location that takes about ten minutes to walk from their place of origin. The reason wasn’t that she didn’t want to walk, but rather since it was her first time going

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Business

Offering Free Help Versus Paid Help

Today was kind of interesting as I was invited to attend an event where there were a lot of kids that were partaking in some kind of a storytelling contest. When I arrived, I personally knew some of the people who were the judges. Since I was there, they asked if I could help out

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Financial Management

Better To Not Pay Interest Rates At All

So I got this offer for a credit card today and by the sounds of it I was pre-approved for a $10,000 credit limit. What I found that was kind of amusing was the sales pitch as you can see here to justify the annual fee of the credit card:

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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Committing To A Membership

Last week I was debating if I wanted to join this activity club which involve a monthly fee. While I am pretty sure I would like to go there regularly, I didn’t know if I could commit to it immediately. Therefore, I decided to wait a bit. Sure enough, this week I got extremely busy

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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Seeing High Fees As Just Normal

What a crazy story I saw today about a strata dispute over a parking lot. You can read the story here at http://globalnews.ca/news/1332211/court-orders-couple-to-sell-condo-following-a-costly-parking-war/ From what I gather, the tenants were unhappy with a new assigned parking lot space and so they refused to abide to the new changes. This then resulted in years of legal

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Financial Management

Frequently Renting Self Storage Or Simply Downsize

I was reading some interesting tid bits today on how the self-storage industry has been growing pretty rapidly. Essentially, these are those services where you can normally store your items in a small space for maybe $30 a month with the first month costing you like $1 to entice you to use it. I was

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