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Financial Management

Buying Home Insurance Right After You See An Accident

I heard a story today where there was a condo that had a tenant who accidentally left the oven on as she went out. As a result, people smelled smoke and the fire department had to be called in. While no one was hurt and the situation was contained, it brought up a topic of

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Financial Management

Being Scared To Change Providers Despite Significant Savings

Cell phones bills are still one of the most shocking I find when people tell me how much they pay a month. Just today a person was looking to find ways to save some money and I discovered that he paid almost $100 a month just for his cellphone. By the looks of it, most

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Financial Management

Spending Before You Get Paid

The other day I was talking to a person who had to work some extreme overtime on his job. As a result, he was expecting some massive overtime pay which indeed was pretty substantial. The interesting thing I thought was that he pretty much already spent the funds in anticipation of receiving it by making

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Making Money

Investing or Not Even With Very Little Money

There was a lot of news here today about the TFSA investment rate increasing to $10,000. For those who don’t know, this like a bank account where interest earned on that account is tax free. With this news there are also a lot of views on how this is ridiculous as it only helps wealthy

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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

If You Saw Friends or Family Losing Money For Love

Imagine if you saw a scenario where a person you knew all of a sudden was in a relationship with a person where he began to spend a lot of money on them to the point where they were sacrificing retirement funds. We aren’t talking about small lavish gifts here but rather things like a

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Financial Management

Better Than Employee Discounts

So I went shopping for that last piece of item today and sure enough I did a price match. It’s always interesting when the customer service reps are also surprised at how much cheaper a competitor is selling the item for. You can’t help but to think it is a price error. Overall, saved about

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