JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT EVERYTHING WAS GOING WELL YOU’RE HIT WITH AN ILLNESS THAT WILL FOREVER CHANGE YOUR LIFE. I’ve been writing about money for much of the past decade but I didn’t always have my act together, financial speaking. In fact, I spent most of my twenties deep in debt, and it took…
Never Be Afraid To Ask For Financial Help I had a reader contact me to ask for budget help and a copy of our Canadian Budget Binder excel spreadsheet that you see me post snap shots of each month. He told me that their family finances were in chaos and they risk losing everything if…
The Urge To Splurge Can Be Forceful Save or splurge really wasn’t going through our minds this month only because there were certain items that we needed to get which we were putting off for a long while, if not years. It was a funny month because it seemed as if everything that could go…
Well, here we are at the end of March 2013 with another budget update which with confidence I can say is a bit better than our February Budget Update. Sometimes it’s a good thing to have a quiet month with the budget because it helps to put things into perspective. Sometimes budgeting and saving money…
Learning to budget money is not always as easy as it seems to most people as it takes time and planning and continual revisions over the course of the year. Some people have no desire to budget monthly and only check in quarterly or yearly but not this guy. Most families are happy to start out…
My name is Debbie Geary and I started using coupons around September 2011. Like every other family we would simply shop the flyer sales and get what we needed for the week. Coupons was saving us some cash but I really wasn’t sure how much. I thought I was doing well couponing but I had…
