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Announcements

Saturday Links

Unfortunately not the golf variety! I don’t normally do “link” posts but I’ve gotten a ton of love this week and I just have to shout some of it back from the rooftops… You might notice a common theme here is complimentary words about me & my site which always makes me feel all warm […]

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Book Review

Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki

I think I heard about and read “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” right when it hit the tipping point and everyone was talking about it (I’d guess around 2004 maybe?). My aunt and uncle had read it, and I wanted to borrow another book from them and they forced this one on me. They told me […]

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Opinion

Pennies

First off, a big thanks to Mr. Cheap at Financial Security Quest for helping me get the Canadian flag into the header, as well as Canadian Capitalist for providing the .gif file. On with the post! This article from the Globe & Mail talks about a recently released Bank of Canada study recommends getting rid […]

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Investing

Canadian Peer-to-Peer Lending

I love it when a good idea comes to fruition. I thought about starting up Craigslist in Canada before they came here (I’d used it in San Francisco and loved it – I even registered a domain for it!). I was going to build a dating site based on collaborative filtering, and I wanted to […]

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Book Review

The Investment Zoo by Stephen Jarislowsky

It always bugs me having junk around in my life. In my youth I was quite a “book horder”, and have forced myself to keep the number of books I own to a minimum (my new trick is unless I *LOVE* a book, I try to give it away to someone who’ll enjoy it). I […]

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Frugal

A New Week In The Life

After a lively discussion broke out in my “About” section where Money Gardener and Four Pillars were shocked at how cheap Mr. Cheap really is, I figured it might be time to update my cost of living calculations. My monthly fixed costs are the same: Rent – $440 (half of $880 rent paid by gf […]