Adventures in Debt

It’s Tax Time Again

As you can see, I’ve had to pull out the good old calculator this week in order to do my income taxes. Okay, I don’t actually use the calculator as I do my taxes online, but you know what I mean. It’s time to see if I owe the government any money, or if they [...]

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Spending Money for Travel

One, two, three…ten thousand, fifteen thousand, sixty thousand. What am I counting? I’m counting up my airline miles. I was admiring all of my airline miles in a few different affinity accounts while logged in to my Points.com account and discovered something interesting and annoying. (Points.com, for those of you who don’t know, is a site where [...]

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Making it All Automatic

One of the things my FA (financial advisor) wants to do for me is to set up my finances so that I’m able to spend whatever money’s left in my chequing account guilt-free. He’s already set up quite a bit for me so far, so that with each paycheque: my loan payment is withdrawn automatically my savings [...]

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Back from the Olympic Adventure

Hi everyone! I’m back from my wonderful Olympic adventure at the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver. What a spectacular experience! The city was alive with proud & loud Canadians, who were wooing and cheering their way to all the events. My friends and I had a great time, and I’m proud to say that I [...]

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The Numbers Have Been Updated

There you have it folks, over there on the right sidebar you’ll see my new Current Debt ticker. It now shows the one-and-only debt that I currently have, my consolidation loan. Yippee! You might also notice that the number is almost $9,000 more than my previous current debt, and that’s because we paid out my [...]

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