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Cyber Monday – Great Deals Today

/ November 29, 2010 / save money, Technology / Permalink

I’m pretty sure that they are eventually they are going to fill up every day of the year with some sort of catchy name to get people out spending their money needlessly on a day to day basis. Today is “Cyber Monday”, and I’m trying to remember when this new “day” came into place? Don’t [...]

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Picked Up Some Great Clothes Yesterday – What A Deal!

/ November 16, 2010 / local, save money / Permalink

So after doing  2.5 hrs of photo touch up work last night, it was mutually decided that we should get out of the house for a few minutes. I almost forgot, but my favorite clothing store “Value Village” was holding a 50% off sale.. so off we went! Most times Value Village is a spot [...]

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Going To Be An Awesome Christmas

/ November 12, 2010 / awesome, local, save money / Permalink

Christmas is stressful. Lots of reasons for that, not much can be done about it. I wrote about this last year how I started my Christmas shopping early and how nice it would have been to have been finished shopping a few weeks early and then really enjoying the Holidays with my family and friends.. [...]

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Free Money For Your Child!

/ October 26, 2010 / charity, home, local, make money, save money, stocks / Permalink

Nope, I don’t have a child – but I sure have one hell of an awesome nephew! And as the best uncle ever, I (as well as his folks of course) want to make bloody sure that he’s well educated when he gets to the age where he starts university or college or whatever it [...]

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Did You Know? Multivitamins..

/ October 26, 2010 / health, save money / Permalink

I think it’s due to the fact that I don’t eat a lot of seafood and some other items that I thought it would be a good idea to start taking a daily vitamin. So I have taken them religiously over the last few months. But thenI just read about how Consumer Reports tested 21 [...]

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Save $100 Extra A Month – Some Great Ideas!

/ October 26, 2010 / save money / Permalink

Just finished reading an article on some interesting ways to save $100 a month (or more) by doing some general things that you may do anyhow! I found the list over at balancemylife.ca and I must say that it’s a pretty darn good list. The bolded ones are methods which I try to save and [...]

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I Have Closed My Line Of Credit

/ October 11, 2010 / photography, save money, travel / Permalink

RBC is retarded. Back when I paid off my credit card, I posted about how it was a 30 second phone call to get my credit card limit reduced to $2000 from the shocking limit of $16,000 it was before. Very ironically, I got a letter in the mail just yesterday advising me that they [...]

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GPS System – Why Bother? Get An iPhone!!

/ October 11, 2010 / save money, Technology, travel / Permalink

So tomorrow I’m off to Montreal for a few days, then to NYC. This is going to likely be my only lengthy vacation this year where we actually get to take off somewhere other than the Maritimes so both myself and Liz are really excited about it. I can tell you something that we’re not [...]

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Hard Drives… Stop Upgrading Now!

/ October 5, 2010 / home, local, save money, Technology / Permalink

I’ve got a question for all of you. What do you store on your massive 500 gig or 2 terabyte hard drives? While I realize no one is going to post an answer for fear that the MPAA or some TV copyright blog-lurker is going to come crashing down their door with sub-machine guns and [...]

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Menu Planning Again

/ October 5, 2010 / food, save money / Permalink

I think I blogged about this before, but it’s that time again. It’s the time of year where things start piling up in the refrigerator, yet we never think there’s anything to eat in the house. Last month I found we ate out a bunch (yes.. we still did manage to stay under our $200 [...]

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