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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Money Without Mass Media Influence

I was talking to a person recently that surprisingly avoids almost every modern day media and news outlets and as a result she saves a lot of money. We are talking about things such as no cable tv, no reading the news online, avoiding magazine style opinions on various topics, etc. So you can imagine

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Financial Management

Eager To Prove That You Get Good Deals

This was kind of interesting the other day where I was with a person who wanted to buy something from a fast food restaurant with a large part being because every Wednesday there is a sale for a particular item on the menu. Over and over again he kept emphasizing what the original price is

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Financial Management

Paying More Taxes With A New HST Tax Structure

I read a piece of news today where here in BC there is going to be a new tax system called the Harmonized sales tax that is going to be introduced next year. For those who live in BC you can read the announcement here: http://www2.news.gov.bc.ca/news_releases_2009-2013/2009PREM0017-000141.htm Essentially, right now we pay two types of taxes

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Financial Management

Spending All of Your Designated Funds Mentality

Recently a person I knew went on a trip and for this he set aside about $3000 to splurge on the trip. While that is pretty normal to have a vacation funds, what I found interesting was that during the last few days of the trip he mentioned that he had quite a bit of

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Financial Management

Your Habits or Budgeting Plans

Recently I was with a group of people and a conversation came up about maintaining ones health and one person was saying how he can’t eat too much of a particular item otherwise he will gain weight. Now she seemed like she did a lot of physical activities too and so you would think one

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Business General Thoughts and Fun Topics

The Wellness Show 2009

So today there was this wellness convention taking place here in Vancouver and my mom really wanted to go since it was the last day apparently. And yup, guess I was the one available to tag along. I thought it would be interesting to see anyways too as health and wellness is one thing that

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