Erika from Newlyweds on a Budget blogs about love and money, and managing finances as a semi-newlywed. My husband and I dated for just three months before we got married. Our conversation about finances before we got married can pretty much be summed up like this: Me: So I make this much and you make [...]
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Filed under Guest Posts,Healthy Living,Miscellaneous,Opinion
Five Financial Conversations to Have Before You Get Married
8 Comments Guest on Dec 20th 2011
Here is an article from my early days of blogging. This was originally published on April 21st, 2010. It’s a warm, sunny afternoon, the wind is blowing softly, and the birds are chirping. You are lying on a lawn chair next to the beach, eyes closed, with the warm sun shining on your face and [...]
45 Comments Kevin on Nov 17th 2011
Filed under Miscellaneous,Saving Your Money
Where I Spend My Dollar
20′s Finances wants to know where bloggers spend their money. For this post, I have assumed that my net income after taxes and not including bonuses (with a company not doing so great, there won’t be many of these anyways) is equal to $1.00. I then put all of my expenses on that. For things like [...]
33 Comments Kevin on Nov 14th 2011
Filed under Growing Your Wealth,Investing,Miscellaneous,Opinion,Philosophy
I Didn’t Know Squat About Finances when I Was in College
Roshawn Watson recently wrote a very interesting post on why young people are avoiding investing their money in record numbers. He outlines three main reasons: fear, ignorance, and inexperience. As a (still) young person, myself, I can relate to all three of these reasons. In my own experience, ignorance has been the predominant reason why I [...]
34 Comments Kevin on Nov 9th 2011
Financial Samurai had a great post about why we should never tell anyone how much money we make. I think that this is good, sound, advice to follow, because what we don’t tell other people can’t hurt them. Human nature being what it can be, money can have a way of changing a relationship. Will [...]
25 Comments Kevin on Nov 7th 2011
Temperatures are going into the minuses… I have a test on Monday, and winter is getting closer. Standing against the cold is the great support, comments, and feedback from everyone… thanks! I also had the good opportunity to meet Forest from Frugal Zeitgeist from the second time now. He’s a pretty cool guy with a [...]
9 Comments Kevin on Oct 28th 2011
Filed under Growing Your Wealth
Planting a Seed of Savings
Here is an article from my early days of blogging. This was originally published on April 5, 2010. I still remember when I was a student and I didn’t have any savings; what came in my chequing account left again rather quickly. In this series, I want to talk about how you can shift from [...]
21 Comments Kevin on Sep 12th 2011
