money

money
Financial Management

Pre-Cut Fruit Prices

While at the supermarket the other day I walked past a section that had all these pre-cut fruits and vegetables for sale. I always felt that these were overpriced compared to simply buying the product fresh and slicing it yourself. So for fun since the first thing I saw was pre-cut pineapple I went to

Read More
Financial Management

Living With So Much Debt As A Senior

I was reading this article today at http://www.biv.com/article/20130306/BIV0102/130309955/bc-seniors-face-mounting-debt which talked about how a lot of seniors enter into retirement with a massive amount of debt. That was kind of shocking to me honestly where it stated like in this province people over the age of 65 have an average household debt of $51,636. On top

Read More
Financial Management

Viewing An RRSP As A Commercial Gimmick

I thought this was interesting today as I was talking to some older people who were discussing how here in Canada we have what’s called an RRSP which is meant to help people save money for their retirement. Essentially, one of the main benefit to doing this is that contributing money into this plan allows

Read More
Financial Management

Bank Paper Statement Fees

To my surprise today I was just doing my daily banking and noticed that there was this “statement fee” in my account. I’m usually pretty good at keeping updating with new fees and such that companies introduce but this one kind of caught me by surprise. Based on the name of the fee I assumed

Read More
Business

Shipping And Delivering Items Yourself In The Beginning

I was just browsing online for some local stores today to buy some items and not surprisingly most places had online stores. These places weren’t huge either as they seemed to be a small business. What surprised me was that there was this one place that advertised they provided free expedited shipping on any order

Read More
Business

Paying More For A Private Checkout

This was kind of funny but I suppose it is probably more true than most of us think. Basically, there are often items that people are too embarrassed to let people know that they are buying. This could be items in the supermarket that are related to say sex or it could be a situation

Read More
Loading...