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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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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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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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Let’s talk about spiritual food and dining out.

April 28, 2011

Friend to the frugal, foe to the spendthrift – these are among my traits as Executive Director at Credit Canada. So it might surprise you when I say that one of the keys to managing debt wisely is to spend money on pleasures every now and then even when you don’t have a lot of [...]

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Can you afford to fall in love?

April 7, 2011

Sunny days always seem to mysteriously draw-out the consumer in me, and just as the forecast predicted, I found myself taking a stroll down Queen Street West this past weekend and checking-out the shops in the area. I went into this one particular store because it had really cute dresses in the window and I [...]

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What’s your money type?

March 15, 2011

Here’s an exercise for you to determine what kind of “money personality” you have. No, I’m not suggesting that you are on the brink of experiencing multiple personality disorder. The truth is, we all have a money personality based on our attitude towards money, which stems from what we have observed concerning money matters since we [...]

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$2 litre!

March 2, 2011

Wrap your eyeballs around that dear reader because this is what’s ahead of us. Remember the glory days when a litre of gas cost $1? Oh how we chuckled when the gas stations had to add an additional digit to their signs to accommodate rising prices. If you’re like me your budget is as tight [...]

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My ham sandwich gave me financial freedom.

February 28, 2011

Being a student at one of Toronto’s finest Universities, I find myself very broke. I also find myself spending more time there then at home. I also don’t have the same class hours each day. Some days I start very early and I’m home mid afternoon. Other days I start in the afternoon and I’m [...]

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BMO brings plenty of logic to customer service.

February 18, 2011

It’s fair to say that Canada’s banks enjoy a good measure of respect among the citizenry at large. Why? Well, aside from occupying Bay Street rather than Wall Street, they offer security and services quite unlike those of many of their international contemporaries. Case in point:  Bank of Montreal (BMO), which is right now advertising [...]

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Gobble, gobble, gobble go the little money gobblers.

January 27, 2011

Let’s talk today about a widespread phenomenon within our society called the money gobblers – a troubling group that plays a role in the lives of people of all ages and backgrounds. The money gobblers are everywhere, snarfing up cash and credit as if there’s no tomorrow. They almost always provide instant gratification of your [...]

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