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Getting Pitched By Your Bank For Consultations

I am not exactly sure why this seems to be happening more recently where I have been receiving a lot of unsolicited calls. At first you may think it’s just a telemarketing call which is common. But in this case it’s actually from some financial advisor from the bank I am with where they seem

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Business

Interesting Rolex Watch Paper Value

Today I just randomly watched this video where apparently a person purchased this Rolex watch way back during 1971 and never worn it. I don’t know the backstory but he apparently brought it to some antique roadshow to essentially sell it seems. After looking through everything the person was given a valuation of about $700,000.

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Business

Spending Years Just To Change Careers

This is probably the most dreaded story of all that people never want to hear when it comes to a career. I was told how there was a person who got the best education that money can buy in a rather technical field where the demand should be there for his skill-set. But he didn’t

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Business

Giving Free Money To Sales Pitch People

Today there was an annual Chinese New Year parade here in Vancouver and I decided to check it out. There are usually people handing out lucky red envelopes where instead of money people usually put candy in them. Would get too expensive giving away one dollar to thousands of people as an example. But that

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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Chinese New Year 2020

Happy new year everyone. This year it is the year of the Rat they say. One thing I did today is simply going around different places to see what kind of events are taking place. One common sight is seeing lion dances being conducted on various business which is supposed to being good luck and

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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Shopping Just For Standard Reward Points

I often said that when it comes to rewards or cashback point that you should never spend just for the sake of collecting them. Unless you are coming out ahead or you actually wanted the purchase going out of your way to buy something for a small amount of these points can actually cost you

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