It’s hard enough being a single woman and trying to maintain a work/life balance. It’s even harder if you’re a caregiver to a child or an aging parent. Many women deal with low income and unemployment and we struggle to…

Being a Single Woman and Dealing with a Bank or Credit Union

Cloverdale Santa Parade 2019
Christmas is getting closer and one of the favorite Christmas activities in Cloverdale, Surrey, BC, is the Santa Claus parade. This is no ordinary parade. It has a lot of semi trucks, takes place at night, and the floats…

Why does Telus Lie to Customers?
Telus is a telecommunications company in Western Canada. It was originally BC Tel and provided telephone service. In the last 30 years they changed their name and added Internet and TV services. I’ve been a customer of BC Tel and/or…

Movies I Like Watching Over and Over
There are some movies that when I notice they’re on TV, I’ll forget everything else and watch them. Most of them I’ve seen many times. Or partly seen because many times by the time I notice it’s on TV the…

Dreaded Bank Fees
It’s tough enough being a single woman and trying to manage our finances. We shouldn’t have to worry about our bank taking money away from us with dreaded service fees. Women are generally more financially stressed than men because we…

What do Single Women need to know about Banking?
There are over 6 million single women in Canada – never married, separated, divorced, or widowed. Many of us are dealing with pay inequality, low income, unemployment, and are caregivers to children or aging parents. Whether we’re just starting out,…

Taking Control of Debt on a Low Income
I get really annoyed seeing articles about how someone eliminated $75,000 in debt, or whatever high amount of debt only to discover this person’s income is in the six figures. Or it’s a couple and at least one of them…

Things to do when you turn your Clocks back one Hour
Daylight Savings Time ends November 3, 2019 Unless you live in Saskatchewan, Arizona, or Hawaii where they don’t observe Daylight Savings Time, you will get an extra hour of sleep on on Sunday, November 3, 2019 when your clocks fall…

Dunking, Spanish Style
I was brought up by a fussy Scottish mother who made sure we had impeccable table manners and ate our meals properly. Due to my upbringing I would no more think about dunking anything into a beverage than picking a…