There’s still a lot of secrecy about money. Individuals simply do not talk about their personal money issues often enough. If they are badly in debt, they hide it. If they have a shopping or gambling addiction, they hide it. If they are living off their credit cards they don’t tell anyone or get help [...]
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What To Give Or Not To Give, Those Are The Questions
Some of you may have their gift and shopping list prepped already, and you may have a minimum and maximum amount of cash you want to spend per gift and an idea of what to get the people on your list; I know I do. But I do have a friend that I always have [...]
If You Really Want To Change Your Money Habits, You Will
I was having coffee with a fiend of mine last week and she told me about her co-worker who earns $50,000 a year but is also $50,000 in debt. She’s in debt because she spends too much on beauty products like $800 face creams and on $5,000 handbags. She’s been spending this way ever since [...]
Gifts: Asking For What You Want
When my birthday or Christmas is nearing, I make a list of all the stuff I want to get as gifts. Am I being presumptuous? No, practical. Every year I tell my boyfriend what I want because every year at least one or two of my friends will call him and ask him what they [...]
The Price of Being Lazy
Recently we had a our regular once-a-month poker game at my partner’s best friend’s house. The poker group decided we wanted to have dinner together too and so it turned into a potluck event as well. I think potlucks are a great money-saving idea (see Potluck), but this night it didn’t turn out so economical [...]
Finding A Mentor
Ever since I became an adult, I’ve always wanted a mentor.
There are mentorship programs available out there. In Vancouver, the Women’s Enterprise Centre and the Minerva Foundation matches women starting businesses with women who have years of experience in similar fields. I think these organizations provide a great service - someone to tell you what [...]
Borrow Instead of Buy
As I mentioned in a previous post (titled Bad Weddings, Too Expensive to Attend), weddings, whether bad or good ones, can be expensive not only for the couple getting married but for the guests as well.
This summer I had been invited to three weddings. Since they are all required different attire, I needed 3 different [...]
Got Friends With Talent? You’ve Got A Great Party
Last night I had the privilege of attending my friends’ second wedding, their renewal of vows after 16 years of blissful marriage.
This celebration was great not only because it was to celebrate a lasting love between two people, but also on the money side of things, was made way more affordable because of the bride’s [...]
Bad Weddings: Too Expensive to Attend
It is June, traditionally wedding month so I thought a story and writing my opinions on wedding celebrations would be appropriate. I think friends’ and close relations’ weddings are special and treat them as such, after all I am bearing witness to the start of a couple’s new life together: I give thoughtful and useful [...]
Friends: Cheaper than Psychotherapy
Sometimes my life gets filled with too much work, my to-do lists get crazy, I have too many chores and family obligations that I crash and realize my life is out of balance. Don’t get me wrong, these episodes don’t occur too often and I do OK for the most part. But when it does happen I [...]
