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Couples and Money

This spring, as you enumerate your finances, count your blessings.

March 24, 2011

Spring is a time to take stock and clean house. That can include sweeping out the dust that settles in the attic between your ears. It collects wherever negative, self-defeating attitudes are found – the same attitudes that make you feel miserable, indecisive, and powerless. Plus there is always the prospect for opening old boxes [...]

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Are you an indulgent parent?

March 4, 2011

One day on a crowded bus I overheard one woman talking to another about how she was indulging her children.  The conversation went on about how this woman was giving into her children’s every whim from exclusive (read expensive) summer camps, to laptops, to cell phones, to bedroom makeovers etc. I couldn’t believe my ears. [...]

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Ka-ching. Ka-ching. Ka-ching. Happy birthday.

February 28, 2011

Planning an intimate birthday party for your young son or daughter? For that special day, why not give your child and a few of his or her close friends $100 each, take them on a shopping spree, then wrap up the event at a rented venue with a feast that’s fit for a monarch. Or, [...]

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Average household debt tops $100,000

February 23, 2011

There is no doubt that debt loads have never been higher in Canada and it comes as no surprise that a report by the Vanier Institute on the State of Family Finances notes that household debt has now reached the six figure mark.  The attached article click here demonstrates how easy it is to find ourselves [...]

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The Middle aged: As clueless as the quarter lifers.

September 24, 2010

Last week I had a facial then floated to the nearest coffee shop and had a green tea on the patio because I wasn’t ready to go home and face the sink full of dishes waiting for my arrival and subsequent reality check.   Beside me were two very glamorous middle aged women basking in the [...]

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Haggling is fun, but it is not for me.

August 25, 2010

Off on our routine 40-minute walk to our favourite coffee shop last Saturday morning, 15 minutes in and my husband says, ‘Wait a minute, let’s check out this big yard sale’. Uh-oh, what can I say, but, ‘OK, let’s go’. He was checking out a fascinating item – a little pewter collectible.  He asked, ‘How much is this [...]

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Here’s your financial tool kit

August 4, 2010

For many of us, it’s not January but September that qualifies as the start of the new year in Canada. Come the end of the Labour Day weekend, there’s a feeling the whole world is getting back into gear. Schoolrooms, boardrooms and businesses come alive; social and cultural events start ramping up; hockey season gets [...]

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Coupon collecting hobby resurrected

June 30, 2010

I am one of those who clip and collect store coupons thinking, ‘I could save money’. At times, I would spend a half-hour cutting out coupons and piling them up in my ‘coupon box’. But I never used them- my collection became a hobby. One day as I was cutting out some, a light goes [...]

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Love has no price tag.

June 15, 2010

Appropriately, I’ve been thinking about love in relation to money. Recently, I did some window shopping. My journey took me to Toronto’s Yonge Street just north of Davenport where I happened upon a little store called Belle Epoque. Here I discovered a wonderful hodge-podge of modern furnishings, appliances, art and knick-knacks that lightened up my [...]

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National Post: The new face of debt

June 14, 2010

I came across an interesting article by Andrew Allentuck in today’s National Post that is worthy of sharing.  We all need to be aware of how our golden years of retirement can be very stressful when debt is a part of the plan. For James Kennedy, a federal civil servant before he retired, and his [...]

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