Here’s my guilty pleasure: I love watching Judge Judy! Before Judge Judy, I was a fan of Judge Wapner and The People’s Court. My father and I would try to guess who was guilty just by the way the litigants…
Coast Capital Savings Wants me to take out a Car Loan
Ladies, do you also get hounded by your financial institution to get dragged further into debt with them? Most of us need to get out of debt! And once we’ve achieved that milestone? The next item on the list of…
7 Steps to get Through Financial Hardship
None of us want to get in a position of financial hardship, but for some of us it seems like a never-ending vicious cycle. Financial hardship doesn’t even mean being financially irresponsible. Mostly it means one calamity after another happens,…
Track Your Spending using a Backwards Budget
Are you like me and have tried putting together a budget a few times over the years? I get one written out and then abandon it. Is that you, too? I’m not a budget person, so instead I do the…
A Year of Maintaining a Healthier Lifestyle
A year ago I wrote about my Year to a Healthier Lifestyle. The quick recap is to avoid my blood sugar levels of crossing into diabetes territory, I had to make lifestyle changes to bring my weight down. Fear is…
How Sweet – My Credit Card Misses Me!
Check it out! I just got this email from Rogers Bank, where I have a Fido Mastercard. Aw, how sweet! My credit card misses me! Well, at least the bank that owns the credit card misses me… Too bad!…
Nobody Cares More About My Money Than I Do
It’s boggling to see where we were at the beginning of the year and thinking about financial goals and challenges. Three months later we had to adjust our thinking as the coronavirus pandemic spread across the world. Many of us…
Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda
Coulda, woulda, shoulda. I hear Judge Judy saying that phrase many times on her show, and I think about how those words apply right now. Finance writers Is anyone else noticing this? There are many finance writers and other bloggers…
Changing your Money Attitudes when you’re Suddenly Single
If you’ve gone through a relationship breakdown or partner’s death, your financial situation is going to change, and probably drastically for the worse. Especially if your significant other brought in the bulk of the household income. More than likely you…
Now that Christmas and your Money are Gone…
It’s time to follow up on a post from late 2019 about Christmas stress caused by lack of money. January credit card statements have been rolling in with the bad news on how much Christmas shopping you did. The big…
