I try to use this weekly series to talk about my financial progress — destroying my debt, making more money, and my plan to start building wealth. This week, however, I was faced with a strange situation and it made me want to use this platform to drop some truth bombs on my fellow income-strapped …
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Hey heyy! It’s Monday. I hope you had a good weekend and i got myself into a little bit of a situtation with money. So here it goes. The GF is really wanting all new stainless steel appliances. We have a fridge and washing machine but they don’t match. NOT COOL RIGHT?? I’ve been hearing from …
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The New Year is finally upon us, and it’s time to start making resolutions. Since I first wrote for TF, I’ve spent a lot more time making plans and setting goals for myself. That made it easy to come up with the following resolutions for 2013: Save at least $1500 in an emergency fund Achieving this goal …
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Merry Christmas! If you expected a regularly scheduled article then you’ve now been disappointed. Then again, it was ridiculously presumptuous of you to assume I’d have a post today. I’ve spent the last week in Alberta. And not even Tim Horton’s is open.
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I Roll Coins and So Can You!! I’ll get to the instructions on how to roll coins in a minute. A friend of mine (and/or this guy) forwarded me a personal finance article about “How to Write a Check”. For us Canadians, that’s “How to Write a Cheque”. It’s exactly the kind of painful Trent Hamm-esque …
Continue Reading...On Friday, I was ordered to direct my energy toward writing more personal finance ‘advice’ by one of my esteemed commenters, in a discussion chain I subsequently deleted (it turned ad hominem after he falsely asserted that I pay $3.50 each for energy drinks and am therefore unworthy of writing a PerFi blog. Other gems included …
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