I did not get much reading done this week because I was desperately trying to get a project finished. The list is pretty short this week, but here goes: 1. How To Save More For Retirement If You Don’t Make Much Money at Financial Samurai 2. Really?! You Can’t Fix Stupid at Budgeting in the… Read More »Favourite Posts of the Week – Pretty Short Edition – 15 Jan 2012
Last week I went into the supermarket and an idea hit me. Actually, it had popped into my head a couple times before but I was not sure how to approach the topic. For years there has been a debate on the basket of goods and its importance to the survival of the average person.… Read More »The Basket of Goods Project : Food and Beverages
As many of you might know, I take my lunch to work everyday. Planning your lunch menu ahead of schedule can really make life easier, especially when you have to take a trip to the supermarket to buy ingredients. One of my favourite lunch recipes is an easy pasta and meat sauce main course with… Read More »Lunch Box Recipe: Easy Pasta And Meat Sauce
I’m a firm believer that you should teach children to save money. A couple days ago, a friend of mine updated her Facebook status. Pretty normal, just like any other day on good ol’ Facebook. But the status caught my eye because it was something that I can’t remember hearing anyone talk about in a… Read More »How to Teach Children To Save Money
Trading on the stock market is one of those areas that I find really grey and hazy. One of my earliest memories of CNN is hearing people talking about Wall Street and seeing what looked like a hundred people in a room with two hundred televisions. It looked like a mass of confusion and chaos.… Read More »Beginners’ Tips for Trading on the Stock Market
I know that I’ve said it before and by now many people are probably tired of me alluding to the global financial crisis. But last week at a pension planning seminar at work, we were reminded that 2012 is going to be very tough in the business environment and things will probably be like that or… Read More »How To Stay Calm in a Financial Crisis
From the time I was small I’ve been hearing comments about wasting money. Some of the comments are “He’s always wasting money” or “She loves to waste money”. Now that I’m older, I know what those comments meant. Wasting money is something that varies from person to person and one person’s waste could mean another… Read More »How to Stop Wasting Money
For this New Year edition of my favourite posts, I decided to switch this post to Sundays, because I have more time to read more blogs and peruse websites on Saturdays. By writing this post every week, I’m introduced to many blogs – personal finance and many others and it proves that the blogosphere is… Read More »Favourite Posts of the Week – New Year Edition – 8 Jan 2012
Lately I’ve been a bit obsessed with looking at house plans. In fact, this is where I seriously fail when it comes to time management. I can easily waste hours looking at hundreds of house plans and other sites that focus on interior design. I’m seriously considering doing a course in CAD, so that I… Read More »How to Find House Plans for Free
You don’t have to be Michael Phelps or Ian Thorpe to reap benefits from swimming. All you need are the basic techniques and a willingness to exercise your entire body. Just over a year ago I pulled a muscle in my back and the doctor suggested swimming to treat the injury. I bought goggles to protect my… Read More »Frugal Fitness: Swimming