Give Me Back My Five Bucks

Monday 31st $41.29 groceries Tuesday 1st + $409.45 freelance/side income $10.36 post office (shipped a package & bought 10 stamps) $2.50 parking $42.54 gas Wednesday 2nd + $125 freelance/side income No Spend Day! Thursday 3rd No Spend Day! Friday 4th $15.00 dinner (Chinese food) Saturday 5th No Spend Day! Sunday 6th $3.88 pizza TOTAL: + $418.88 Well, BF and I went out to eat twice over the weekend. Neither was very expensive, so I don’t view it as a big deal. We had Chinese food on Friday night (not planned) for Chinese New Year. My family was having a big … Continue reading →

Through Random.org, the winners of my Quicken Canada contest are … Melissa (comment) and SustainablePF (tweet)! Both winners have already been contacted. CONGRATS! :)

NOTE: This is a guest post by my sister, Justine. She is 23 years old, and works two part-time jobs while attending University full-time to obtain her degree in Social Work – with no student loans! She currently lives with her boyfriend of 5 years, has a Minesweeper expert level score of 81, and loves watching infomercials. I have always liked shopping through Amazon.ca because it has a great inventory. The website is quick, convenient, and easy to navigate. Not to mention I get to use my gift cards that I obtain from Swagbucks! However, recently I had a bad experience … Continue reading →

February’s goals are a little late this month, but this is another month that will see me out of town approx. 25% of the time (8 days). As you can see from the budget below, I have given myself $600 to spend while in New Orleans – this includes the hotel that I booked for 2 nights. A big chunk of change for sure, but definitely a million times cheaper than if I had to pay for the entire thing myself. February 2011 Goals: $600 into Retirement Portfolio $100 into Travel Fund $500 into savings towards $1,180 initial payment towards braces … Continue reading →

I am so irritated with TD Canada Trust. In fact, I’ve had this problem with them since 2007, but I haven’t done much with my account until the past year or so, when I’ve wanted to switch up my mutual funds and buy a bit more aggressively for the long term. Basically what is happening is, every single time I want to purchase higher risk mutual funds, I get the following decline e-mail: Order # XXXXXX-XXXX-XXXXX Dear Investor, [...] We have not fulfilled your request because it may not be suited to your current investor profile. We have based this … Continue reading →