by Marie Engen | Oct 27, 2011 | Personal Finance, Shopping
Recently my husband purchased a box of my favourite cereal. I normally buy the jumbo package and this one seemed a bit smaller, but he assured me that it had cost the same amount. Not that I didn’t believe him, but I dug around our recycle bin for the old box and...
by Robb Engen | Oct 26, 2011 | Financial Goals, Personal Finance
After reading an article called 11 Steps To Financial Freedom in the latest MoneySense magazine, I thought it would be interesting to go through each of these steps one-by-one and share my results on this blog. Each week I’ll go through one of the 11 steps to...
by Marie Engen | Oct 25, 2011 | Personal Finance
Almost every day when I drive home from work I see the same man standing on the corner of a major intersection. When the light turns red he rushes over to the stopped cars and asks for spare change. Some people give him something, most don’t even roll down their...
by Robb Engen | Oct 24, 2011 | Saving Money, Shopping
I consider it a small miracle that we made it out of IKEA after only spending $200 this weekend. The Swedish furniture giant usually has a way of sucking up our discretionary income like no other store. This time, with a bit of assembly (and a few thumb blisters) we...
by Marie Engen | Oct 20, 2011 | Estate Planning
Although it’s grim to think about being incapacitated by illness or an accident, it does happen and it’s best to be prepared just in case. When you appoint a person with “power of attorney”, you trust that person to make decisions for you in case you’re unable...
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