From the category archives:

Budgeting

What has your bank done for you lately? Consider this.

July 21, 2011

You gotta love TheStar.com’s Moneyville section. Week by week, day by day, it offers a wealth of wisdom about intelligent ways to deal with your money and save. Great columnists and writers with oodles of financial smarts highlight the section, which features interesting themes of practical use to all Canadians.   Take Moneyville’s “Free Stuff Week”, [...]

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Yes, it’s a word that comes in handy now and then: No.

June 28, 2011

Around the office, I’m known as a stern and frugal manager concerning cash outlays. If certain parties, say business suppliers, don’t have a thoroughly convincing case for why they want me to give them more money for some reason or other, I don’t hesitate to say no. Period. So why is it that I sometimes [...]

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RESPect.

June 21, 2011

What about them Bruins, eh? When my nephew first started playing little league hockey his team was called the Canucks. It was all very cute and miniature but there was a kid on his team whom I freaking hated with a fiery passion. Let’s call him number twenty two because that was his number. At [...]

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Its raining deals

June 7, 2011

Rain rain go away, little Roxanne wants to socialize! After feeling trapped inside my house for two weeks my bestie Tacha and I decided that the beautiful sunny weather meant some well deserved socializing. I, being the genius that I am, suggested we try out a new Thai restaurant downtown for some good food and [...]

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Smart kid. Smart money. Kayla’s story.

June 2, 2011

Consider a teenager who for the sake of today’s discussion I will call her Kayla. She is 14 years old, and she is a living, breathing example of a savvy money manager. In fact, she started demonstrating personal money management skills at age three. Does that make her a child prodigy like Pablo Picasso, who [...]

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Forget the beer goggles, beware of the beer tab.

May 31, 2011

President Obama drinks a pint of Guinness, thinks it’s 2008. Emma Rogers drinks a shot of Tequila, thinks it’s 1999. Recently I found myself in the club district of Toronto for a stagette party.  It was my first time back after a long hiatus, due mainly to losing the skirt length battle with the twenty something crowd. There [...]

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Financial Smarts: Everyone’s a winner.

May 24, 2011

Winning may not be everything, but it sure feels good. Just ask anyone who has put their finances back on track and who is sticking to a budget. There is no official award for that. But there are tons of rewards. Like not having to stew about the weight of your piggy bank every single [...]

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School’s out children. Time to make some money.

May 17, 2011

In my experience, most university, college and high school students are hungry for full-time work come summer time. It’s not that they’re particularly keen about securing jobs to trim hedges, shampoo poodles, or sling beer, it’s just that they relish the idea of bringing home something besides grades for a change. They want to start [...]

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The long, hot summer.

May 12, 2011

So I’ve come to some realizations in the last month. One is that it’s the start of the summer driving season. Second, I am not Nostradamus or anything but I know gas prices will be soaring higher.  I know this because the media tells me so. In the debate, we’ve heard in all forms of [...]

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Moms and money. CFOs on the home front.

May 10, 2011

In the wake of Mother’s Day, I’ve been thinking about moms and money. Being a mom myself, I know all about money’s role in maternal matters, or perhaps I should say family matters, because it’s often us moms who handle the budget for virtually everything in the household. Call us Chief Financial Officers on the [...]

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