Women weren’t frivolous magpies in the past: Jewellery was their only source of wealth
Women get a bad rap for being frivolous magpies. Honestly, when they talk about getting gifts, jewellery and so on, people always disparage how frivolous and dumb such a practice i
Cash gifts come with strings
All monetary gifts come with strings. That is, the ones given while the giver is still breathing and not as an inheritance. Of course this is not everybody, but I’m always suspic
The Hustle Economy we live in
We will willingly live farther in the middle of nowhere, with an hour commute just to have a bigger home. We easily give up that 2 hours a day, stuck in traffic / driving like a ma
Are we Privileged or Hardworking?
I posted this wonderful illustration by emanu.se the other day on Instagram and the comments were so revealing: It is incredible how one picture can stir up so many angles, discuss
These self-care lists for women are complete horse$&@!
I have yet to see a self-care list directed towards women that includes anything properly adult and difficult. Take for instance this one: https://www.instagram.com/p/B4U00kBHF_x/?
Does everyone in your family know how to manage money?
You won’t believe the number of stories I hear about husbands passing on and either their widows know nothing about money and spend like it is going out of style, or they rea
Women can earn $500K more over the course of their career by keeping their family names
In posting about how Québec since 1981 doesn’t legally allow married women to choose to take their husband’s name or not, I sort of stirred the pot and set off a set of fiery
Know what’s unsexier, romance-killing and more transactional than asking for your fair share? Divorce.
On Instagram @saverspender, I post about 3X a day in regular posts, but my Stories are where I put my daily life – photos of things I am doing, seeing, notes, thoughts, whate
Even with $1M in net worth, I would have been denied a mortgage
Yep. You read that right. If I wanted to go in today, and get a mortgage for a rental property or something, they wouldn’t give it to me. Why? Because banks look at your EARN
Just because you resell your stuff doesn’t mean you’re poor
I was mentioning how I was selling off my things on Kijiji and Poshmark (This is how to sell your items online and the easiest for me is Poshmark Canada – use code SHERRYISH