I’m not sure if you’ve used PayPal before or if you’ve done online shopping, but for me.. I absolutely love PayPal. There are lots of reasons why I like it so much:

Ease of Use

As long as I know my username and password, I can make a payment through PayPal – it almost seems too easy, but I guess I’ve had good luck with it so far – so I’ll knock on wood with this one.

Online Payments

Almost all online advertisers and [...]

Do you know how much your pets cost you a month? Every 6 months? A year perhaps?

Recently my bank (RBC) introduced a finance tracker which allows you to categorize and see exactly where you’re spending your money. For kicks, I decided to see how much my pets are costing me (seeing that I just spent $20 on a dog nail trimmer AGAIN!) and the results were somewhat surprising.

I should also say that they are far from the first bank [...]

Was talking to my neighbors yesterday and we were talking about stuff.. more specifically, selling stuff. I’m sure that I’m not the only one around that can honestly say that they have more stuff than they need. Not that it’s junk by any stretch of the imagination, but things that you buy – and never use anymore. Clothes would obviously be the #1 item that people gather a LOT of and don’t’ get rid of – hence the huge [...]

Well not only am I trying to limit the groceries which we purchase and try to spend a lot smarter during the course of a month – as you may know I’m also trying desperately to reduce my debt – this debt being my line of credit, and any credit cards.

My first update was back in June 2009 and at that time I told myself that I was 12.07 months from being out of debt (keep in mind this [...]

You know it’s hard not to notice a nice car, at least it is for me. It sticks out, it’s shiny, it’s sporty, it doesn’t have a roof, perhaps it’s absolutely enormous (think Hummer), whatever the reason for it sticking out – it does. I’m not sure about you, but as soon as I notice a nice car, I try to take a look at who’s driving it. What am I thinking?

Hmm… honestly, I guess it all depends on the [...]

Just wanted to post a quick ‘kudos’ to the @usedeverywhere team for their great work on the new site.. check out the screen shot below!

Doesn’t that look slick?? If you don’t already know (and you should!!) but usedpei is pretty much the same as kijiji.ca in that they are both very popular online classifieds for local buying and selling.

It’s also a great way to promote items, advertise for job openings, advertise your own unique skills.. I [...]

The latest book I’m reading “One Up On Wall Street” is a great read, I’m not quite done of it yet with about 100 pages left, but it’s a great companion book to my other favorite finance book “The Wealthy Barber”.

The reason that I like it so much is that it fills in the gap in how to research a great company and gives great explanations as to what some of the confusing terms are when you’re looking at [...]

I know tax time is behind us.. but you know, I just found this blog article and decided to write about it. I haven’t written many financial posts lately and this is one that I didn’t want to leave till the last minute.

It’s really a straight forward concept, but I’ve never really thought of it this way.

If somehow you ended up saving, or have $10,000 to contribute to your RRSP – instead of taking the refund (say you’d get [...]

Ok, this isn’t a post to tell you about some sort of credit card fraud, and it isn’t a post to tell you to stop shopping on the Internet – it’s a post to tell you to stop shopping online the way you’re doing it now, and help out the PEI Humane Society for free!

I’m sharing with you a free way you can help our PEI Humane Society while shopping on some of the most popular stores on the Internet. [...]

I knew this day would come soon, and sure enough.. today is the day. The Canadian Dollar is at par again with the US Dollar. It got pretty close back in mid-march as I posted before, but today it breached (although as of this minute it’s back up over just by a fraction of a cent).

Should be interesting to see how fast all the major companies drop their prices to reflect the difference between the US and Canadian markets.