Author: Sunshine G. As Canadians, we’re very, very lucky – providing that you’ve been working, you receive a year off on maternity/parental benefits to be split between the two parents, paid at roughly 55% of your earnings to a max of $524/week before tax (as of 2015 information – it indexes yearly). After tax, that works out to roughly $934 every two weeks for
Author: Phil B So you’ve finally decided to start tracking your spending for a month or two, so you can identify where all your money is going. Congratulations, that’s the first step toward mastering your money. Anything that is measured can be controlled. You’re motivated to start right now, and you’ve bought Quicken or signed up with Mint.com. Maybe you even got a little confused,
I love technology. I love it in all its forms. While I’m not always the first to jump on the cool app bandwagon, I will definitely be chasing that sucker down if I think it will make my life easier or better. Recently, I came across some cool apps that I think will be able to save me some time and money. Not only that,
The last six weeks have been busy here at the CSS household. As most of you know, we’ve had some pretty big changes with my husband’s layoff and my work hours being cut. While this was initially a really scary thing, it hasn’t been all bad. Some things have been changing for me and the changes in our careers have started to crystallize them. It
I don’t think I’m a terribly spiritual person. I would describe my relationship with organized religion as more of a nodding acquaintanceship than anything else. I don’t go to church and you’ll never find me on a mountain top, bugging the shit out of a Tibetan monk for guidance on my First World Problems. I have this feeling it would go something like this: Yeah,
Hi everyone, please welcome Troy Bombardia to Cents, Sense & Sensibility today. He is an investor and staff writer over at Make Money Your Way and is here to share his knowledge with us on investing for beginners. This is the second installment of the Investing Crash Course. Please go to Investing Crash Course: Week 1 for the first post. Take it away Troy: Before I
