I have just now read an article at consumerist.com that gives 15 ways to save money when shopping for groceries. We do not hold saving money as our primary concern when shopping for groceries, but the desire to save money does inform our decision-making when our other basic rules don’t do the job, so we [...]
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Free Money Finance posted the 10 most hated money-saving tips according to the comments he’s received over the years, writing over 700 tips. These aren’t necessarily earth-shatteringly new strategies, but that’s not the point of this list. The point is, these are the common-sense tips to which people claim to be decidedly immune. Do check [...]
Yesterday I came across the game “Mansion Impossible” (http://mansionimpossiblegame.com/) which hass a very simple premise: buy houses you can afford, sell them at a higher price, use that profit to buy and sell increasingly expensive houses for increasingly bigger profits until you can afford to buy the mansion. So what’s so great about this game? [...]
This was Joe’s insight while we were out for coffee with the Sussmans last night. I think I’ll have to have this embroidered on a pillow for him. People have been asking whether the move is permanent, how long we’ll stay etc. As Joe so elaborately detailed in the Why Dauphin? post yesterday, the move [...]
Four more nights on this rotten sofabed. Four more nights in Toronto before we begin our adventure in Dauphin, Manitoba. We won’t be there until June 25, but there’s the small matter of a trip to Como, Italy in the interim, so that means only four more nights in Toronto. But why move? It’s step [...]
Let me apologize in advance. This entry could be seen as rather depressing, but it’s important that you read it. Many of us were raised to work hard, get good marks, get a solid, dependable job, raise a family, and that would make us good citizens. My mother tried to do that, and I’d like [...]
Sarah and I live in Toronto, Ontario with our four cats in a rented basement apartment below Sarah’s business venture, Mostly Math. It’s a fine existence, but it’s pricy. We don’t really take advantage of living in the city anymore. Our life revolves around a 5.5-km stretch of Sheppard Avenue East, from Yonge Street to [...]
I just received my quarterly statement from ING Direct, with whom we save our money. I like reading their newsletter, as it occasionally has something interesting for me, such as when I learned about high-interest US dollar savings accounts. This particular edition is geared towards tax time, since the deadline is April 30 to submit [...]
