What to consider when planning for your retirement
Retirement seems like a big grey area that seems to encompass so much. Everyone thinks it’s just a number we need to reach in terms of savings, and okay, we all know about th
Is a millionaire a millionaire if there is no one around to criticize them?
The post is tongue in cheek because it is obvious this person who claims the following to never take advice from a millionaire: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Grant C
Canada Levels of Wealth: Top 1% in Net Worth by Age & Income in Toronto, Vancouver, Montréal and Calgary
Canadian net worth is a little trickier to pin down because all the surveys and info are so U.S.-centric. That said, KA came up with a great way to triangulate how to figure out ne
Why early retirement FIRE people can sometimes be short-sighted
FI/RE or written as FIRE in short form, stands for: Financially Independent / Retire Early In this, it means if you hit your FIRE number, or your FI number, you are ready to stop w
Looking at different levels of FIRE retirement: Lean, Regular, Fat/Luxury and Barista
FYI … FIRE = Financial Independence / Retire Early It’s a movement that has taken root in the past 10 years, kicked off by this book: Your money or your life which I ab
The new status symbols for the rich
These days, there is a new aspirational class that is emerging, and it has a lot to do with money, but with a new values aspect creeping in with social and cultural capital playing
People of colour use consumer goods to help buy status and acceptance
As a follow-up to my post about why people without resources buy luxury goods, I think I should clarify another point: People of colour buy their acceptability with consumer goods,
Net Worth by Age (Informal Instagram Survey) & Breakdown with Details
Net Worth Survey I did a short little informal survey, inspired by Alyssa @mixedupmoney to NORMALIZE that net worths span a wide range, even within an age range, nay, an AGE, you c
Were women really all that greedy in the past?
Having read the amazing biographies of late, and other fictional-yet-historically-based takes on some of these women by Michelle Moran and Emma Campion, I can’t help but wond
Don’t give your child a cushy, comfortable life.
Children enjoy working hard. They enjoy emulating adults around them, and trying to shield them from “all the bad things”, including things like budgeting, taxes, and b