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Teaching Money Habits to the Next Generation
This morning, we hosted a financial literacy workshop through CPA Canada called Are You a Good Financial Role Model? I love this topic, and as usual it wasn’t super well attended, which is too bad. Even if you don’t have kids, someone in your life likely does, or at least someone younger who needs financial

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Flip the Switch and Save Money & the Birds!
We tend to keep the lights off on the front of our house, unless we know folks are coming over. I know, it’s not very inviting, but there is one very good reason, and I was ecstatic today to see that BC Hydro backed up my rationale! Lots of houses on our street have their

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First-Time Home Buyers Can Now Use Both the FHSA and HBP!
Buying your first home in Canada is not easy, especially in some areas. Living in Metro Vancouver I have no idea how my daughter will get started on the property market. Prices are high, down payments are scary as heck, and saving while paying rent and trying to also think long-term (retirement savings) must feel

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Busy Life? Don’t Neglect Your Money!
I haven’t written anything in weeks, not a blog post or any other writing project. Not because I didn’t want to. Not because I ran out of ideas (my notebook is full of them). But because life filled every available corner. My Mam was here. Work was full on, and still is. There were dinners

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Reset Your Finances – It’s Never Too Late
There’s something slightly humbling about opening your computer to write a blog post and realizing you haven’t done one in, well, let’s just say… a while. In my case, my Mam was in town for a full month. There were meals out, long chats, tourist days, and the kind of togetherness that tends to push

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The $150-an-Hour Question: What’s Your Time Worth?
I saw a post on Instagram today, “If you were offered $150 an hour to work on Thanksgiving from 5am to 5pm, would you do it?” Twelve hours. One thousand eight hundred dollars. A year ago, I wouldn’t have even hesitated. Hell yes. We can celebrate Thanksgiving on another day. Money is money, right? But

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