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Back to school. How would you brand your teenager?

August 23, 2011

A mass migration is about to occur in Canada involving well over two million citizens. Well, teenagers, actually. Call them Millennials, Echo Boomers, or Generation Y if you like. They are 13 to19-year-olds who are preparing to leave the carefree days of summer behind and march back to school. It is a momentous occasion not only [...]

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Online scammers – a Craigslist story

January 17, 2011

It’s usually around the Holiday season when we go hunting for those really good bargains.  I consider myself the bargain Queen.  Recently I decided I wanted to buy a big screen television for my room so I went out to different stores and priced different televisions but I wasn’t satisfied and none of them fit [...]

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Start spreadin’ the news. I’m leavin’ today. But don’t tell anyone it’s on a bus!

September 29, 2010

Here at Credit Canada, not only do we put you on a budget, we’re on a budget too! So when three of my favourite gals suggested we take a trip to New York I was in but only after scrutinizing the price.  New York doesn’t come cheap but they assured me it potentially could. The plan was thus:  Ten [...]

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Smart grocery shopping. Food for thought.

September 27, 2010

Imagine knocking $100 or $200 off your monthly grocery bill. That’s money that will allow you to get caught up on your finances if you’re behind.  Or it’s money that allows you to enjoy other things in life, like a better car, an education fund for your kids, a vacation nest egg or even a [...]

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Ready, set, save for Black Friday shopping.

August 31, 2010

John Hussman (The Money Demand Blog, July 30, 2010) on Recession Warning – “Based on evidence that has always and only been observed during or immediately prior to US recessions, the US economy appears headed into a second leg of an unusually challenging downturn”. Recession or not Americans feel the tradition of holiday gift giving [...]

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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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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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