The desire to get married is an emotional need for many people. For some it’s a religious necessity. My views have evolved. I now see marriage as a confirmation of a couple’s love and a commitment to making their joint life work; not just for convenience or wealth-building, but for their future kids and the …
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In two weeks I’ll be using some vacation time to get away from the office for a week and enjoy the Spring. Lately I’ve been busy and feeling stressed, so I decided to use the vacation time I neglected to use last year. I want to continue saving money and paying off debt, but I …
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“Frugal Beauty: Drugstore vs. Department Store Products” is a post by Adina J in which she takes some new beauty products for a spin. I’m pretty low-maintenance, insofar as it takes me less than half an hour to get ready and dressed in the morning (and more like 10 minutes if we’re talking about a …
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Arrested Development was my favourite comedy series of all time — I watched every episode as it aired until its cancellation in 2006 and it’s the only show I own on DVD. It may actually be my favourite show, period. If I had to retroactively choose between watching AD and any series I can think …
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I hold various strong opinions. Some of my harshest criticisms are reserved for Apple. I think that the company charges prices consumers are stupid to pay. I also had a bad experience with an Apple product. When your writer was a rosy-cheeked high school senior, he purchased a bottle of Pepsi and happened to win an iPod Mini. …
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I watched a documentary last weekend about the world’s biggest bit torrent search engine, The Pirate Bay, called TPB AFK. Here’s a link to the NSFW movie on YouTube. During the film, one of TPB’s co-founders talks about a different project: Flattr, a social micropayments website. A user of Flattr first loads an amount onto …
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Today’s guest post, “Cross-Border Shopping Analysis”, is from Glenn Cooke, a life insurance broker with Life Insurance Canada.com Inc. I’m always looking for a good deal. The first place I want to look is south of the border. Joe has pondered before the age-old question: is cross-border shopping worth the hassle and costs? I wanted to …
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A couple weeks ago I discussed cross-border shopping. More specifically, I said it’s pretty money-stupid for a Canadian to cross border shop at Black Friday sales. I clarified, however, that cross-border shopping is a great idea if executed properly. The next Black Friday isn’t for another 11 months, but Boxing Day is coming up. I don’t recall seeing as …
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Today, I’m going to talk about why we use disposable diapers for our daughter rather than reusable diapers. I have a mea culpa to get out of the way first. We received a free set of used (obviously clean) reusable diapers as a gift from a family member who has a three year old. It was …
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Last week there was a cavalcade of cheer-leading articles for Black Friday in the MSM. Today is “Cyber Monday” — a term I despise almost as much as the word “blogosphere”. I’ve been thinking lately about how the Canadian Black Friday really sucks. I realized I was onto something when I read this Toronto Star article on …
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