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Posted in praxis on Feb 18th, 2008
Anyone have opinions on pet insurance? My two daschunds are 2 years old, and I don’t have pet insurance. I do have a little emergency fund, and set aside money every 2 weeks to plump it up. My reasoning is that I’ve heard too many horror stories about insurance companies not coming through – negating [...]
Posted in case study, philosophy of $ on Feb 16th, 2008
Last night at 18:30, I heard 7 shots. The last time I heard that sound was 2am on a Sunday morning. I went back to sleep, thinking I’d been dreaming, and later discovered an innocent 19 year old woman had been shot while trying to stop a fight outside the nightclub a half-block away from [...]
Posted in freebies or nearly, fun with money on Feb 15th, 2008
…and a bonus Friday Fun for today: Since it’s Valentine’s week, here’s the fun history of the FreeHugCampaign. (it beats the bed-ins of the ’60′s don’t ya think?)
Posted in fun with money on Feb 15th, 2008
Estate Planning Peter was a single, ugly, pot bellied 45 years old guy living at home with his father and working in the family business. When he found out he was going to inherit a fortune when his sickly father died, he decided he needed a wife with whom to share his fortune. One evening [...]
Posted in philosophy of $, pleasure of $, praxis on Feb 14th, 2008
We all know that loving money isn’t generally a good thing (did anyone else watch cbc’s JPOD episode featuring the woman on the bed… with loads of money…?) but: Do you LIKE your money? Here are 3 hot tips to enhance your relationship with your money. 1. Let go of the past. Whatever has gone [...]
Posted in freebies or nearly on Feb 13th, 2008
Courtesy of Oprah, you, dear readers, can download Suze Orman’s book Women & Money for free, til 7pm central time tomorrow (Valentine’s day) evening. Spread the word!
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 12th, 2008
I’m pinching these factoids directly off Canadian Capitalist who always has good things to say about money stuff – as varied as a discussion on QuickTax software to how the currency fluctuations hit or support our investment portfolio. Here’s his quick-and-dirty factoid sheet about us Canadians and how we do (0r don’t, most of us) [...]
Posted in praxis on Feb 11th, 2008
Responding to WestCoast Woolie’s challenge to Personal Finance bloggers to donate this month, I decided to carry change for once (I’m usually cashless and use my debit cards) and give away a loonie each day to a panhandler. I was going to attempt to ‘connect’ briefly with the person rather than simply drop the change [...]
Posted in case study on Feb 9th, 2008
Last week I received the following e-mail. Boy, it brought back memories. Hello Nancy, I know you are not a shrink but I’m wondering if you can make any recommendations for times…like I am currently having…when I’m losing control of my emotions over the financial situation. What do you recommend? My response: Dear ___________, your [...]
Posted in econ 101, fun with money, pleasure of $ on Feb 8th, 2008
My buddy Mark goes out for beer with some buddies each Friday and between them they figured out this: If you had purchased $1000.00 of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth $49.00. With Enron, you would have had $16.50 left of the original $1000.00. With WorldCom, you would have had less [...]
