Can’t save $100, can’t save $1000 or Why a rich mindset matters
I talk a lot about rich and poor mindsets and to be clear, I am not talking about BEING rich or BEING poor, I am talking about the way you look at, think of, and consider your mone
Turns out, you can buy happiness with money & rich people are happier with even more money
It seems money does buy happiness after all, but there’s a catch. I put the entire Instagram caption here for your convenience – it is pretty much the article itself, b
Is my thrifting & secondhand purchases harming those in need?
I read this and felt an immediate guilty pit in my stomach. Â Am I contributing to the gentrification of thrifting? Am I making the prices higher for those who can’t afford t
Rich versus Poor Mindsets: Which one are you?
I have always believed your mindset really determines whether you become rich or poor, regardless of income. Now, when I talk about ‘rich’, I mean money, but a rich lif
“What’s the point? I am never going to be rich.”
I have been hearing a lot of this going around lately. Just feelings. They manifest in sentences like: What’s the point? I am never going to be rich. I just read an article t
Was it better when you had no money at all, or now, when you worry about it?
The Monevator (a blog I rather like reading that is 100% money), talks about how having more money seems to be more problems for him than when he was in his 20s and carefree about
I don’t want to be cured of loving Luxury
There is a lot of talk that has gone on for years in the personal finance (PF) or debt-free community (DFC) on various platforms. It all boils down to these 3 variations on a theme
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
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,