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Financial Management

Emotional Purchases Before A Tax Increase

It’s kind of amazing to see the lengths that some people are going to in an effort to save some money as a result of a new tax that will be introduced here called the HST. The biggest impact it will have I think is on certain grocery items as everything that was normally only

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Financial Management

Waiting Too Long For Better Deals

For one of my utility services I have been holding off from signing up for a different package as there are supposed to be new competitors and market offerings which will drive the prices down. For this one in particular it has been about five months already and nothing new has happened yet. Therefore, I

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Business

Business Editions And Consumer Editions

I was looking to buy this productivity tool and there were quite a few different versions to choose from. The main difference that was immediately noticeable is how certain ones were targeting business users and the other ones were targeting average consumers. As well, there was a major difference in the prices as the business

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Financial Management

Tax Free Shopping Incentives

I was recently reading this snipbit, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127581050, on how in July BC residents can shop at WA in a tax exempt fashion. Kind of an interesting way to draw out of country shoppers if that was the intent. Although, if you are thinking of crossing the border you still need to keep in mind that

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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Saving Money By Being Unconventional

Recently I saw this set of exercise weights for sale and for the most part it seemed like decent price. I then heard someone commenting how it was a waste of money either way as he could easily find a rock that weighs similar and use that as weights for free. Although it does sound

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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Avoiding Certain Presents To Discourage Bad Spending

This was kind of funny I thought. There was an item which I thought would be a good fit for a person that was moving to a new place. As usually, I normally ask if people want to pool in their funds to get something big that the person would definitely like. While we were

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