What’s your Money Origin Story?
Everyone has at least one. Your Money Origin Stories. Or what made you decide to either take charge of your finances, or a certain situation that stands out in your mind as THE def
What else you can use in Canada to save for your child if you have already maxed out your Registered Education Savings Plan (RESP)
So I always put in $2500 a year for Little Bun’s RESP to get the maximum 20% match from the government and the province. I don’t put in more than $2500 because at the r
How not to raise a privileged brat… (things I am trying at home)
So. Privileged brat. This is a #FirstWorldProblem angst a lot of us newly-minted folks feel, especially since we aren’t used to thinking about it at all. The key for me, is t
Our combined net worths are $2.2M – Added Notes on the Journeys
My partner has literally zero interest in counting his money like Midas, and I am the opposite, constantly tracking and creating charts on my progress, and looking back with pride
How to make almost an extra $500K over your lifetime: Comparison of dividends versus salary & capital gains
Dividends (depending on your province) are a great way to make an income and pay barely anything in taxes. If you’re tax efficient, $30,000 in income is NOT EQUAL across the
How to become a millionaire at retirement starting with nothing $0 at ages 20, 30, 40 and 50 (Added: 25, 35, 45)
Age-old question right? Well here you go, this is what you need to invest in the S&P 500 index (either in a mutual fund or an ETF), and let it sit and marinate over the years:
How I reached my first $100K milestone and how I saved my first $100K by age 25
Someone asked for specific numbers of the time when I was starting out, and to be honest with you, I didn’t track any of the first few years very well because I was just lear
Send money internationally and cheap, with Xoom a new Paypal Service
I saw a few ads for this, but never bothered to look into it until my mom asked me to see if it was cheaper than her wiring the money and paying up to $60 CAD each time as a fee. N
Starter Books for Children and Parents talking about Money
Books for Parents Make your Kid a Money Genius The Opposite of Spoiled Younger Children Berenstein Bears – Get the Gimmes Berenstein Bears – Trouble with Money Berenste
Investing 101: What Stocks, Mutual Funds, Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs), & Dividends are
My goal was to show an overview of stocks, mutual funds, index funds, registered plans and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in one image, so here it goes: This is not a perfect analogy