Archive for the ‘Money Stories’ Category
Monday, October 26th, 2009 |
Remember 7th grade and the science experiments? Ah, good times. Well, today I’m not going to make you dissect a frog. We’ll be looking at more of a monetary experiment.
Just a few more days till the end of the month, right? I’ll get paid and we’ll have a little more breathing room in the budget. [...]
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Monday, October 26th, 2009 |
Welcome to the October 26, 2009 edition of the Carnival of Money Stories. Who doesn’t love a good story? And who doesn’t love some Halloween candy? I actually prefer to skip the candy corn and go straight for the chocolate. What about you? What’s your favorite kind of Halloween candy? While your thinking of that, [...]
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Monday, July 20th, 2009 |
Today’s post comes from Danny Kofke, a school teacher with a family of four that he raises on his salary. His wife is a former teacher and now stay-at-home mother to his two young daughters. Despite earning a moderate income, he has no debt except the mortgage, has a 12-month emergency fund, invest so that they are on track to retire with a sizeable nest [...]
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Friday, June 26th, 2009 |
With the heavy summer travel season now upon us, I thought I’d throw out some quick travel tips. These are mostly based on the money-related lessons I learned while travelling to Ireland the past three weeks. For more detailed banking information see my previous post, Banking Tips for International Travel.
Know Your ATM and Foreign Transaction Fees- We ended up using [...]
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Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 |
This past weekend I visited Blockbuster for the first time in a while. I’d written them off to a certain degree after my discovery of The New Release, Redbox (and Insideredbox.com), who let you rent DVDs for $1 or even $0. To be honest, the only reason I even considered entering Blockbuster was because I [...]
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Monday, May 18th, 2009 |
Welcome to this 2nd edition of the newly re-established Carnival of Money Stories. And Happy Victoria Day! I’m not Canadian, but I love Canada. So far I’ve visited Vancouver and Calgary and loved both trips. Today just happens to be Victoria Day, also called May Two-Four. Can you guess the double meaning of that nickname? [...]
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Monday, May 11th, 2009 |
Are you all about money? Obsessed with making more money and having more of it to spend on the things you want? How would you characterize your relationship with money?
Since I’m known amongst some of my friends and family as the money guy, I often get viewed as being all about money. I really cringe [...]
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Saturday, April 18th, 2009 |
No Debt Plan is about getting and staying out of debt with a plan. Kevin, the author, is passionate about budgeting, saving for the future, and using goals to reach financial freedom. You can subscribe to his blog by RSS or email.
This interview is part of a new feature he’s developed called Subscriber Swap Saturday. [...]
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