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My savings guide to home and auto insurance

Posted on May 31, 2015 by Mark | 13 Comments

Let’s face it, homes are expensive, even the ones that are mortgage free. You have property taxes, maintenance and improvement costs, operational costs such as heat, hydro and more. For us, we also have some mortgage debt. Add it all…

Weekend Reading – Stocks beat homes, saving, dividends, debt and money stuff

Posted on May 28, 2015 by Mark | 13 Comments

Welcome to a new Weekend Reading edition – some of the best articles from the personal finance blogosphere. Earlier this week I told you about how I used Twitter to get some customer service and I summarized some saving and…

10 Saving and Investing Truths

Posted on May 26, 2015 by Mark | 13 Comments

To quote the late Dr. W. Edwards Deming, a world famous author and quality management guru: “If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you are doing.” In my work, Dr. Deming’s wisdom…

How I Used Twitter For Customer Service Help

Posted on May 24, 2015 by Mark | 12 Comments

A few weeks ago I posted this on Twitter: My request for help came after a phone call to my mortgage lender revealed I could no longer adjust my mortgage payments with them over their telephone banking service. This is…

Weekend Reading – Retired by 30, greatest asset, saving, one year later

Posted on May 21, 2015 by Mark | 9 Comments

Welcome to some great new articles for your Weekend Reading. In case you missed it, I provided some thoughts about saving and investing for retirement based on how our plan is working here and the folks at Grouplend, a Peer-to-Peer…

Peer-to-Peer Lending – Why not take advantage of the debt binge?

Posted on May 19, 2015 by Mark | 12 Comments

Canadians love debt. It’s hard to argue with the facts. Earlier this year, Canadians with debt (myself included with mortgage debt) hit a new, all-time high: credit-market debt including mortgages, consumer credit and non-mortgage loans grew to 163.3% of disposable…

Reader Questions – Essential Saving and Investing Advice

Posted on May 17, 2015 by Mark | 10 Comments

Thanks good readers, I appreciate hearing from you and receiving your saving and investing questions. I’ll be the first person to acknowledge our saving and investing approach might not be suitable to everyone however I believe things are working out…

Month: May 2015