My Best Financial Tip The best financial tip I received was given to me by my father – pay yourself first, son. No, my father is not David Chilton. He is a retired nurse administrator now in his early 60’s…
How I Save Money on Auto Insurance Similar to the work I do every year when I make my annual phone call to the customer retention department at my favourite telecommunications company, I also review my auto insurance policy every…
The Beginner’s Guide to Saving and Investing for Canadians What happens when some of Canada’s best bloggers on personal finance, investing and insurance get together? You get a book – a great one – especially for beginners seeking to take…
Age 50 is too late to start saving for retirement We’ve all heard the same song for some time now: Canadian debt loads are too high. Canadian savings rates are dropping. Canadians expect to work past age 66, not because…
Pay yourself first means bill payments to Us Inc. Pretty much anyone who has read anything about personal finance has heard the mantra: pay yourself first. David Chilton popularized this mantra with The Wealthy Barber and reinvigorated it again in The…
To quote the late, great Dr. W. Edwards Deming, arguably the world’s most famous quality management consultant, “If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you are doing.” What a great quote, because there is so much…