Part 1 When my daughter (K.B) started grade twelve, we began to talk more seriously about what she wanted to do after school ended. Did she want to backpack around Europe or buy a car? Did she want to go into a trade and start working right away? Or did she want to go to college and get a diploma or degree? She knew she
There is a lot of conversation around the personal finance blogosphere about taking personal responsibility for our actions. We ‘take control’ of our finances and pay down our debt; control our spending; or grow our investment portfolios. We shun pension plans, social programs, and other initiatives and forge our own trail. We are aiming to be prepared for anything and that’s cool because anything can
Welcome to debt payment progress for year 2013. Meh. Debt payment progress. Without the progress part. Yeah, sorry, no trumpets or fanfare here. Not even a parade. I’ve read a lot of other personal finance blogs with some pretty great reports on what they accomplished last year but that’s not really going to be me. My debt payment progress has been not stellar. Some of
