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A Debt Snowball And A Debt Avalanche

So today I was reading various strategies that people use to pay off their debt. More specifically, the two methods that were in discussion was the debt snowball or debt avalanche method where one was more focused on the psychological aspect of encouraging people to pay off their bills and the other was to get

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Business And Money Shows

Segment About Rewards And Cash Back Cards or Just Finding Good Deals

So today during my time on the show AM/BC I decided to talk about getting rewards and bonuses from using a credit card and how some people actually go out of their way to make purchases to build up reward points where I think it makes no financial sense. For example, someone may be like

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Financial Management

Is A Daycare Cost Considered A Financial Necessity

I was reading a debate today of how some people were saying that the cost of living was too expensive and that the average salary of a regular working family simply doesn’t make ends meat. As usual people kind of broke it down into categories such as how much it costs for food, transportation and

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Financial Management

Living On $1.75 A Day Food Budget

Today I watched a segment about a site called livebelowtheline.com where essentially people are trying to live on a mere budget of $1.75 a day as a way to create awareness about people who live in extreme poverty. From what I gather they try to challenge people to do this for about five days which

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Financial Management

Thinking of How A Government Budgets As Opposed To An Average Person

Since there is an election here soon, today was the day that all the main candidates did a live televised debate. For the most part I was expecting a a stereotypical political debate with people avoiding questions and trying to make others look bad. Since the economy and provincial debt was a big issue I

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Business And Money Shows Financial Management

Global TV AM/BC Segment About Spending or Saving Your Tax Return Refund

At least today on the way to the studio it was bright and sunny. Since the tax deadline is almost up that means a lot of people are already anticipating on what to spend their tax refund on. Therefore, I talked about what I felt would be the most ideal use of these funds and

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