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The Ultimate Guide to Canada’s Discount Brokerages
If you want to cut your investing fees to the absolute bone, then a Canadian discount brokerage is the road you must travel! Gone are the days of calling and asking someone to buy or sell stocks/bonds/other on your behalf – the internet has allowed YOU to take con
What Spending Years of Savings Feels Like (Don’t Panic!)
Sure, saving is all the rage in the world of personal finance nerds, but here’s a fun fact: Even if you’re saving for retirement, you’re going to spend that money someday. I learned that the hard way when three of my biggest savings goals all needed to be spent in a sin
How to Say No to A Wedding You Just Can’t Afford (And Stay on Good Terms With the Couple, Too)
While sure, there are a lot of ways to gracefully say no to plans you can’t afford, there’s one type of invite that requires a bit more finesse. Weddings. If you’re in your 20s or 30s, prepare yourself – the wedding invites are coming, and the cost of attending th
Disaster-Proof Your Life
Please note this post has been brought to you in partnership with TD, all thoughts and opinions are my own. Young people aren’t exactly known for paying a lot of attention to their own mortality, and it isn’t a ton of fun to consider a tragic event taking place. Given
Book Review: The Behavior Gap – Simple Ways to Stop Doing Dumb Things with Money by Carl Richards
The Behavior Gap is one of the books that I set out to read for my personal finance goals of 2017. It is often recommended by personal finance gurus. The Behavior Gap: Simple Ways to Stop Doing Dumb Things with Money is written by Carl Richards, who is a financial plann
Oversimplification: An RRSP is basically a cardboard box
You know what people in the finance world love to joke about? How no one understands what an RRSP is. Oh, how they laugh. They laugh like it’s ‘so simple’. And then when they try to explain it, they bog it down with so much bullshit, that even I get co
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