Hoping with crossed fingers that the check you wrote doesn’t come through your account before you can make a deposit. Driving your car until its comfortably on “E” and hoping you can get to work just one more time before you have the money to fill up. Eating stale crackers and a 2 year old can of [...]
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Filed under Financial Freedom,Growing Your Wealth,Healthy Living,Motivation
You Can Avoid Living Paycheck to Paycheck
23 Comments Jessica Streit on Apr 22nd 2013
Filed under Financial Freedom,Growing Your Wealth,Miscellaneous
What Does ‘Early Retirement’ Mean to You?
Jacob from Early Retirement Extreme and Mr. Money Mustache from Mr. Money Mustache have recently been talking about the “Internet retirement police”, self-appointed folk who call out bloggers for calling themselves retired, when, according to these people, their lifestyle doesn’t fit into the pre-approved notions of what they consider to be “early retirement”, or just plain ol’ “retirement” in [...]
24 Comments Kevin on Mar 11th 2013
Filed under Healthy Living,Motivation,Relationships
How Finances can Stress a Relationship and What You Can Do About It
The role money plays in a relationship is so important that often times couples overlook having the discussion about money. I mean, how do you know when the right time to discuss money is? Do you tell him on the first date that you declared bankruptcy last year, or do you wait until there is [...]
21 Comments Call Me What You Want, Even Cheap on Feb 26th 2013
The following is a guest post from QuickQuid. Debt Relief Orders were only introduced as recently as 2009. And yet, they have already firmly established themselves as an efficient alternative to the time-consuming, expensive, complicated and psychologically wearing procedure of a traditional bankruptcy.
4 Comments Guest on Feb 15th 2013
Happy February, everyone! The cold of winter carries on, with some parts of Canada and the US shutdown by a recent heavy dumping of snow. This brings back memories of snow days, when school would be cancelled because there was no way of getting there! Winter was one of my favourite seasons as a kid, because you [...]
5 Comments Kevin on Feb 10th 2013
Filed under Miscellaneous,Motivation,Philosophy
What Does It Take to Emotionally Succeed as an Entrepreneur? Here’s What I’ve Learned, One Year After Quitting My Job and Taking the Leap of Faith
[We recently experienced a complete data loss on Invest It Wisely, wiping out our posts and recent comments; we apologize if your comment was lost, and also for the multiple reposts! Thankfully, Code Garage and WP-DBManager saved our butts and we were able to recover data from February 1st. If you run a WordPress site [...]
20 Comments Kevin on Feb 3rd 2013
The goal of every parent is to raise a happy, healthy child. We all want them to be as active as possible, eat the healthiest of foods and become comfortable in social situations. How do we ensure that our children are eating enough vegetables? How do we make sure they are spending enough quality time [...]
24 Comments Jessica Streit on Jan 28th 2013
The following is a staff post by SB. Harsh economic times have resulted in varied sectors resorting to even tougher measures in order to acquire the right expertise to propel their ventures to desired heights. Recruitment processes have therefore been tightened to only facilitate the acquisition of none other than those deserving the task in [...]
20 Comments SB on Jan 16th 2013
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Invest It Wisely’s Best of 2012
So we’re now in 2013, having successfully navigated through the treacherous waters of 2012 and the various end-of-the-world plots that were hiding in the depths. To kick off the new year, I’d like to go back in time and look at the most popular articles from 2012, as well as thank our top referrers. First, [...]
7 Comments Kevin on Jan 11th 2013
Filed under Miscellaneous,Weekend Reading
New Year’s Reading
Happy New Year’s Eve! Here are some of the posts that you might have missed: Happy Holidays How to Fight the Blues This Winter by Giving to the Causes That You Believe In How to Host a Christmas Party on a Budget 3 Low Cost Ways to Grow Your Small Business Have a safe New [...]
8 Comments Kevin on Dec 31st 2012
