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Today’s lecture is about expense management. That’s right. You’ve come to the right place. This is where the cool people hang out. If you have an online business, managing your money should be in your top 2 things to keep an eye on. The other one is snacks. To keep track of your money, you’re […]

Let’s face it. We judge books by their covers. I love old books with old leather binding and hand stitching. It wouldn’t matter if the story were utter dross, I’m a sucker for gorgeous worn out tomes. And because it’s so beautiful to me, I might just check out what’s inside. Just because you know […]

So you’re building a new online business. You’ve got nothing up and running yet. No website and no product. No one knows anything about you or your great idea. The Internet doesn’t know you exist. You are just in pure creation mode. You are exhausted and sleep-deprived. A few people have given you uncomfortable nods […]

Usually bigger is better right? I like my men tall, my milkshakes large, my pay-cheques massive, and my lotto wins astronomical. But my bills? I like them small. Tiny. Invisible. But I don’t always get what I want. But hey, I’m grateful I can control my milkshakes. The most troubling thing about bills is how […]

Even though food shopping is one of my least favourite errands, there is a certain pleasure I get from hunting down the best deal. Guess who’s not ripping this girl off today? We usually do our food shop as a family at our local 24-hour supermarket. It’s something to get us out of the house […]

And it can be expensive. Totes! Every week my husband and I do the food shopping together with the kids. It’s awful. Unless I’m alone with no one hassling me, shopping just for food is in my top five most irritating jobs. The kids are jerks the whole time, there’s always some argument about what […]

It seems like a basic idea. I needs the money and I wants it. Bank says yes: go time. But what if there was actually more to it? More to consider? Thanks to my ill spent youth, I now approach the question of borrowing money with the following two questions. 1) Do I need this […]

Planning your financial goals is notoriously boring. I get cheap thrills calculating my health insurance payment averaged out over 52 weeks, then 365 days. I can wake up in the morning knowing I’m spending $6 today on a dental check I’m 4 years late for. But I really do enjoy writing up budgets, creating spreadsheets, […]