It was Thursday night and my fiance and I were sitting there watching some TV. In the utility closet we could hear the washing machine and dryer going. Something didn’t sound right though. The washing machine seem to be stalling on the spin cycle. When I opened the lid the tub was filled with water, this didn’t seem right to [...]
This week I wrote about how Bell reaffirmed my belief in its ability to deliver bad service. I also talked about the feeling that debt repayment gives and also how I’m feeling about my money tree dying.
Carnivals This Week:
How to Save on Internet Service made it into Learn The Basics of Investing – Edition #197 of Carnival of Personal Finance [...]
When my fiance and I first moved into the condo she bought me a little tree at an Asian market. She said they called it a money tree. Of course I laughed and asked where the $20’s come from. As time went on I started to look at the tree as a metaphor for our finances. Things just seemed to [...]
I’ve never really had any debt issues. I worked all through school and graduated without any school debt. I got a job which paid me more than I spent so I never had credit card debt. The first real credit obligation we took on was our mortgage. When I submitted the request to increase our mortgage payments my hands were [...]
Last month I wrote about why I canceled my Bell ADSL and moved over to Teksavvy. I ended the post with a question:
Who thinks Bell will pull my Teksavvy service when they cancel my Sympatico service?
Well I’ve decided to apologize publicly for my lack of faith in Bell. As a former shareholder I should have known that you would come [...]
This week I realized how much time a wedding takes. I posted ways on how to save on internet services and then followed up with a post on why people don’t take the time to call and save on services. I also had a chance to grade my progress on my goals and gave myself a B which isn’t bad. [...]
Reviewing your goals and creating news ones is key to being successful. After looking at my goals for 2009 I’ve given myself a B thus far . I’ve completed some of my short term goals and most of my other goals are on track. I do believe I could have done better on some but I still have 4 months [...]
Yesterday I wrote an article about “Saving on Internet Service“. Many of the points ended with a similar message which is a segue into this article. People seem to be willing to over pay for various services such as internet, phone, and cable, just to name a few. They are unwilling to pick up that phone and make the [...]
I’ve worked in the Internet service industry for almost 10 year and along with my recent change in internet service providers I’ve put together a list of ways to save on internet service. Here is what my experience has taught me:
1: Understand your Usage Patterns – this is probably one of the most important ones. People don’t understand [...]
It’s march break here in Canada and seeing as my fiance is a teacher she’s off the entire week. Why is this important? Well it means she wants to knock off a bunch of wedding tasks. In turn, this means my naturally procrastinating self is finding it even harder to post. Hopefully I should have posts up the rest of [...]
Yesterday I outlined the various tools you can use to track your budget. At the end of the article I mentioned how our credit card simplified the budget and I wanted to elaborate on that a bit more. Not everyone takes debit cards so there were times when we would have to pay cash for something (e.g ordering take-out). Then [...]
