Spending Archive

  • What can you do with $100?

    Tweet How much is $100? Just the other day, my friend told me that even if she cut $100 in her budget, she wouldn’t be able to cover the deficit in her budget (around $1500), because her husband isn’t working at the moment. I told […]

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  • Do you use your job to justify your spending?

    Tweet I remember when I first started working I thought: OMG! I need all of these new clothes 😀 😀 😀 So I went shopping. I picked up way more of what I wanted in the items I didn’t need. Suits? Why did I buy […]

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  • It’s easier to make your own money

    Tweet It seems easier to make sure that you can take care of yourself financially instead of relying on others to do it for you. It just seems like a lot of work to make sure others keep their pockets open to you. It would […]

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  • How is anybody affording this?

    Tweet Do you ever find yourself listening to a situation and asking: How are you affording this? I do this out of total PF curiousity because I just want to know so I can do it too! 😛 HOW CAN YOU AFFORD THAT? Carrie Bradshaw’s […]

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  • Got a brand new shiny job? Watch out for these pitfalls.

    Tweet Congratulations! You have a shiny new job and you’re going from making $10/hour (minimum wage in Ontario) to $40,000 a year! WOW! $40,000!!!!!! That is DOUBLE what you were making before. ($10/hour x 2000 hours a year = $20,000) But wait. Does this mean […]

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