DON’T MISS A BLOG POST!
INTERVIEWS WITH SHERRY
- Episode 329: So Money with Farnoosh Torabi
- Episode 105: Millionaires Unveiled
- Episode 10: Highley Invested with Jordan
- Episode 44: Make More Capital
- Love & Dividends: The Work-Optional Millennial Millionaire Reveals All
- Marriage, Kids & Money: How to become a millionaire in your 30s
SHERRY’S MONEY
- All my monthly & yearly money roundup budget posts are here – Income, Expenses, Net Worth
- Our combined net worth is now at $2.2M – Journey and notes (2020)
- How I became a millionaire at 36 working 50% of the time
- How I reached my first $100K milestone
- Tax efficiency – how I plan on structuring my estate for the long-term
- How I quadrupled my income in 2 years (from $65K to $260K)
SHERRY’S BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS
MONEY
- Managing money like a boss – Basics & How to change your money mindset completely
- Investing like a boss: How to invest for only 4 hours a year – Canadian version
- My 5 Money Book Recommendations for Canadians
- The only Personal Finance Books you should read
- Starter Books for Parents talking about Money with Kids
- 10 Golden Rules of Personal Finance
NET WORTH
- What should my net worth be?
- What should my net worth be with and without homes, and the top 1%
- How much should you have saved by the age 30 – 35?
- Average net worth of a Canadian by age and province
- Average net worth of Canadians without their house
- Comparing net worths of Canadians
- Is talking about your net worth bragging?
- What is your personal finance score?
- How much should you have saved for various income salary levels at retirement?
- Looking at various types of Financial Independence / Retire Early (FIRE) Scenarios
WEALTH
- How to become a millionaire at 65 starting with $0 at various ages (20, 30, 40, 50)
- Reason #127592 why I need to be wealthy: Poor people aren’t lazy
- What did you think was the epitome of being rich when you were a child?
- Should I buy a $1.1M home or continue to rent?
- How much will it cost for Little Bun to go to university?
- How to secure your identity and money against fraud & theft
- Why I am still planning on not leaving any money to Little Bun as an inheritance
- People with money look better, period.
- Being a big financial fish in little money pond
- Status symbols over time: Fickle or Flexing?
- The delusion of people who are well off but think they’re not
- Are luxury or designer items a waste of money?
- How can people afford all of that and a desirable net worth
- Stylish and Quiet Wealth
- What is your real wage per hour?
- Why I purchased my home without a mortgage and all in cash
- How living in a hotel was cheaper than an apartment
BUDGETING
- How to create a budget
- The Ideal household for budgeting (I use The Budgeting Tool to automate / track everything)
- How to save $20,000 in 2 years
- How high is your ugly tolerance?
- How I reached a No Gift Minimalist Holiday season
- YOLO, FOMO and all the reasons why I overspend
- The Ideal Household Budget for Spending
- Should Debt be part of your budget?
- Flip Flop Budgeting: For those who hate to budget
- How to guess what you are spending before budgeting
- How to start cutting in your budget
- How to cut your own budget and handle it wisely
DEBT
- How to get out of debt in 10 steps
- The 5 Step Plan for getting out of debt
- Should you save more money for retirement or clear your mortgage?
- Average non-mortgage debt of Canadians
- Why I paid my home in cash (no mortgage)
- 5-Step Plan for getting out of debt for beginners
- How I got out of debt
INVESTING
- Investing 101 Crash Course (Canada)
- What is investing?
- What is the stock exchange?
- How do you get money to start investing?
- What is a mutual fund?
- Investing 101: What socks, mutual funds, and exchange-traded funds are
- What does currency neutral mean?
- What are Weighted, Listed, and Effective MERs
DIVIDENDS
- How and what do you invest in to get a dividend income?
- How much do you need to get a dividend income?
- How to calculate dividend income from your portfolio
CANADA
- Investing 101 Crash Course (Canada)
- Estate Planning in Canada (A Rough Guide)
- What is an RRSP?
- What is a TFSA?
- RRSP versus TFSA
- Comparing all Canadian banking investment accounts
- Where to invest all of your money for maximum tax efficiency in Canada
- How capital gains and losses are treated in Canada
NEW ZEALAND
PERSONAL
RETIREMENT
- How to calculate how much you need in retirement
- I could retire today if I wanted to
- Is early retirement all it is cracked up to be?
- Should you save more money for retirement or clear your mortgage?
WOMEN
- Marriage is just a symbolic piece of paper
- Financial abuse is real, it just isn’t talked about
- 3 Things Every Woman Should Have NO MATTER WHAT
- Why women should depend on themselves financially
- Independent means making your own money and means
- New Young Entrepreneurial Mother: Stressed out and Unsure
CAREER
- How to answer a random business scenario interview question
- How I got my job as a high paying consultant
- Stop doing female-oriented busywork
- Discuss: My husband won’t take a job below his degree
SUCCESS STORIES
- I make $26K and can’t do this any more
- Am I qualified to be a director?
- Nailing a new 6-figure job and leaving a toxic work environment
- New Young Mother Entrepreneur – Stressed Out and Unsure
NEGOTIATION
- Fact: Well-groomed women make 20% more
- Women ask for raises but don’t get them
- Negotiation 101: How to get the most out of your offer
- How I negotiated a $30,000 increase in my job offer
- Negotiation 101: How to get the maximum salary and benefits
- Negotiating early on for as little as $7000 can give you 8 years of wealth
- How not to screw up a negotiation
- How to negotiate a contract as a freelancer
- When to walk away from a terrible but high-paying job
- Why do we think women can’t make as much money as men?
- How I got a $13,000 raise each year
FREELANCING
- How to become a freelancer: Part One
- How to become a freelancer: Part Two
- Why freelancers fail and what to do about it
- How to work productively at home as a freelancer
- The attitude I have when it comes to contracts: I don’t need you, you need me
- How to become a freelancer and your own boss
- How much should I charge as a freelancer?
STYLE
- My Month of Style Posts: What I Wear as #OOTDs
- My favourite style books and guides
- Parisian Fashion Wardrobe and Styles Series
LUXURY
- Luxury is the opposite of what everyone else is doing
- Luxury Designer Bag Series – Looking at iconic bags and their value over time
- 3 ways to look more expensive
- Who looks wealthy or rich?
- 3 ways to look chic
MINIMALIST
- Sherry’s Minimalist Home – All of my posts
- All my capsule wardrobe posts (including work wear)
- A tour of my minimalist apartment
- 10 Practical Fashionista Must Haves
- Minimalist Autumn Capsule Wardrobe
- Part One: Minimalist Wardrobe Organization Tips
- Part Two: Minimalist Displaying and Organizing
- Ideal Style Wardrobe: 10 Foundation Pieces
- Ideal Style Wardrobe: 7 Trendy Pieces
- Ideal Style Wardrobe: 5 Wild Card Pieces
- Ideal Style Wardrobe: 5 Fancy Pieces
DIY
- Upcycle: Creating drusy slice rings for under $20
- Repurposing earrings to make necklaces
- DIY Galaxies – Upcycling jewellery
SHOPPING
LIFE / MINIMALISM
HOME
- Sherry’s Minimalist Home – All of my posts
- 10 Cool Small Closet Wardrobe Hacks for Space & Organization
BABY BUN / LITTLE BUN LEARNING
- Little Bun’s Stuffie Scavenger Hunt Story
- Baby/Little Bun’s favourite books (his entire library)
- How I got Little Bun to read and do math by the age of 3
- Little Bun’s recommendations and approved apps for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math)
- Little Bun’s approved apps for learning – English, Geography, Flags, Language, Math, etc
- Fun math: How to teach binary and decimal numbers to children
- How much will it cost for Little Bun to go to university?
- What else you can invest in if you have maxed out their RESP in Canada
- Benefits & Childcare Allowances in Québec
BLOGGING
BOOKS
MONTREAL
MODERN NOMAD: FULL TIME HOTEL LIVING
- What made me decide to give up 90% of my stuff and live out of a hotel
- How living in a hotel was cheaper than an apartment
- How I lived in a hotel as a modern nomad
BIRTH
- What parenting books don’t tell you as mothers
- Secret first time parenting notes NO ONE warns you about
- Useful & practical first-time mother notes and advice from people
- Observations of being a new parent and mother
- Real Life Experience of giving birth via C-section
PARENTING
- Starter Books for Parents talking about Money with Kids
- Tracking the cost of my baby (Year One)
- Actual numbers of what Baby Bun cost (Up to age 3)
- Best purchases we made and didn’t make for Baby Bun
- How I do it all… Not
- Emotional labour is still something that falls on women
- On only having an only child
- The Struggle is Real for Working Mothers
