10 Essential Tips for Getting Out of Debt
$1 Million by 40
Goal: $1,000,000
Start: $0
Current: $146,841.31
146,841/1,000,000
Backing Up is hard to do
Hello everyone! This post is not titled wrong. It is suppose to say that backing up is hard to do. I learned a very valuable lesson yesterday. The lesson was that backing up my data is suppose to be done … Continue reading
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The sky is the limit
I hear that saying all the time The sky is the limit. People refer to that saying when taking about job potential and salary growth. They talk about it when they refer to wealth potential and all sorts of things. … Continue reading
Focusing Everything Towards Debt
I strongly believe that the best way to become debt free is to focus on that debt and ship as much money as possible towards it, to pay it off as fast as you possibly can. I don’t believe in … Continue reading
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Doing Things The Old Fashioned Way.
This is one of those topics that has often found itself at the bottom of my virtual waste paper basket. I always hate that it sounds preachy. I’m once again going to attempt to lecture on the merits of staying … Continue reading
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Debt Free Forever – Part 6
This is the third part of the series. This part covers Chapter 6. For part one of the series please Click Here. For part two of the series Click Here. For Part three of the series Click Here. For part four … Continue reading
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Debt Free Forever – Part 5
This is the third part of the series. This part covers Chapter 6. For part one of the series please Click Here. For part two of the series Click Here. For Part three of the series Click Here. For part four … Continue reading
Debt Free Forever – Part 4
This is the third part of the series. This part covers Chapter 6. For Part one of the series please Click Here. For part two of the series Click Here. For Part three of the series Click Here. Chapter 7 – … Continue reading
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Debt Free Forever – Part 3
This is the third part of the series. This part covers Chapter 6. For Part one of the series please Click Here. For part two of the series Click Here. Well the Olympics have seriously hampered my reading. With that in … Continue reading
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Debt Free Forever – Part 2
This is the second part of the series. This part covers Chapters 4 and 5. For Part one of the series please Click Here. I was only able to get through two chapters this time. These chapters were huge and … Continue reading
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Debt Free Forever – Part 1
Today is the first of a four-part series looking at Gail Vaz-Oxlade’s newest book Debt-Free forever. I will cover three chapters each friday of this month. I’m first going to admit that 3 chapters reviewed in the span of 2 hours … Continue reading
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The Two Income Trap – Part 4
Today we continue with the book review on The Two Income Trap. This part will cover chapter six and seven of the book. For part one of this review click here. For part two of this review click here. For part three … Continue reading
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The Two Income Trap – Part 3
Today we continue with the book review on The Two Income Trap. This part will cover chapter four and five of the book. For part one of this review click here. For part two of this review click here. Chapter 4: The … Continue reading
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The Two Income Trap – Part 2
Today we continue with the book review on The Two Income Trap. This part will cover chapter two and three of the book. For Part One of this review click here Chapter 2: The Over Consumption Myth I’m as guilty … Continue reading
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The Two Income Trap – Part 1
Today I start the first book review of 2010. The book I’ll be reviewing on Fridays in January is The Two Income Trap by Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi. The review broken into 4 sections. The first part of this … Continue reading
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Ignoring a Problem
I ignored the issues with the car. It is still not repaired. When you ignore issues they grow in magnitude. Debt is like this. If you ignore it, it doesn’t go away it just grows bigger and bigger. It’s the … Continue reading
Weekly Wrap Up
Today I start a new friday series. Each and every friday I’ll try to share with my readers some of the more interesting posts I’ve seen on the web in the world of personal finance. I’ll also try to clarify … Continue reading
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An “On Board” Spouse
My Wife might look at this and think this is a love note. So I’ll start off by saying I love you sweetie. Now that I’ve got that mushy stuff out-of-the-way I want to talk about the leg up that … Continue reading
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The Rules are Changing
Yesterday I talked about why pensions don’t work so well. Those reasons were simple. Pensions restrict what an individual can do for themselves, by reducing RRSP contribution room. Pensions, rely on population growth. Pensions also put all your eggs in … Continue reading
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The Folly of Pensions
I currently work for a company that offers a defined contribution (DC) pension plan. This plan, like an RRSP is defined as to how much the company contributes and then how much extra they will contribute based on what I … Continue reading
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The Rule of 72
In personal finance there is something called the rule of 72. This rule gives us an idea has to how quickly it will take for an investment to double. All we need to know about the investment is rate of … Continue reading
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