While for myself it is true that seeing your amount of funds in say the bank motivates you try try and do better, today a person was telling me that one way he helps to get people out of debt is with the simple process of getting them to literally how much debt they have.
Is it actually better to only have one person handle all of the finances in a relationship? That was a conversation I heard today where one couple found it ideal to have one person dedicated to managing the family budget. In this case the husband mentioned that he just makes the money and lets his
Oh neato. I learned today that my brother and his wife had a new baby girl that was just born. Another addition to the family. Guess this means I need to budget for more birthday and Christmas gifts now huh? 😀 All good though.
I guess the Canadian dollar is continuing to get higher. As a result, I am reading all these articles about people who are going to go south of the border for either a shopping spree or purchasing more luxurious trip packages. The first thing that jumped on my mind in reading comments like that is
I was taking a look at some of the tax software prices since it is that time of the year. While many would immediately run to the store, I have often found that purchasing the online versions of these products can usually save you about 20% or more. Essentially the trade off is that you
Interesting phrase I heard today while watching a couple of financial management related videos on people’s takes on what it takes nowadays to remain debt free. I guess we all heard of the phrase “Live within your means†which essentially means that you shouldn’t say buy things that you can’t realistically afford. Example, using your