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$200 Grocery Budget Update – Month End

/ May 3, 2010 / food, save money / Permalink

So here it is, Monday morning – the 3rd of May – I apologize for not getting this update out sooner – however I just haven’t had the chance to truthfully. To get right to the point, as you know at the beginning of last month I set a challenge for myself and Liz to [...]

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$200 Food For A Month Update..

/ April 21, 2010 / food, save money / Permalink

Well we are now on day 20 of our $200 food for a month experiment which you can read about here, basically we’ve budgeted ourselves $50 a week to eat for the month to see how we get along. The amount of money that we’re now down to is around $14! This isn’t good.. or [...]

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What A Weekend – A New Idea We’re Trying..

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

Holy record breaking temperatures! I’m not sure what you guys did over the weekend – but I tried to spend as much time outside as I could. I’m actually starting to think I may have jumped the gun on a few things – such as taking out the patio furniture, raking up the leaves, cleaning [...]

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Start Saving Money Now! I Will Teach You How (Part 2)

/ March 12, 2010 / everyday life, make money, save money, stocks / Permalink

So in part 1 of this series I wrote about basically how easy it was to open up an account with Questrade, and told you step by step on how to go about doing it. In this part, I’m going to show you how to fund your account, make it automatic and how to start [...]

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I Made It To Payday! Budget Update for January 2010!

/ February 5, 2010 / save money / Permalink

Over two weeks ago, I posted that I was ‘broke’ for two weeks as my paycheck was already spent. Well, I’ve reached payday after those two weeks.. and well, I’m no further ahead. I was hoping that my laptops screen was lying to me, but alas.. it was not this morning when I checked it [...]

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Read Any Good Books Lately? You Know, All These Finance Books Say The Same Thing..

/ November 18, 2009 / everyday life, make money, save money, stocks / Permalink

I’m becoming a library junkie, but I’m sort of proud of myself for doing so. Hell, up until a few years ago I barely read anything if it wasn’t on a glossy page with Maxim on the cover. Lately I’ve been picking up a TON of finance books and I have to be honest in [...]

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Almost Done My Christmas Shopping…

/ November 5, 2009 / everyday life, save money / Permalink

HA! Really? You actually believed me? Nope.. not even close actually.. HOWEVER, I am doing much more this year than I have in previous. And I mean much, much more, and much, much earlier. As I’ve stated in a previous post.. I am trying to take the approach that this year Christmas is on the [...]

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Budget Update – End of September

/ September 28, 2009 / save money / Permalink

Well September is a tough month for saving, (seems like every month is eh?).. however with myself, I have Liz’s birthday as well as my brothers birthday. Add in the fact that it’s really the last month that anyone can do anything outside there are a lot of golf tournaments, social gatherings, etc. which make [...]

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What is a trillion dollars?….

/ July 31, 2009 / everyday life / Permalink

This is scary.. very scary.. those whom think the economy in the US is just fine… yeah.. whatever.

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Budget Update – July 2009

/ July 22, 2009 / save money / Permalink

Well here it is July 21st, and it’s about time I gave an update on how my budget is going. As I posted back in June, I was 12.07 months from being out of debt at that time. I am extremely happy to say that I am now down to 9.85 months. What I’m even [...]

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