November 2012 - The Outlier Model

There’s Never a Right Time

Right Time, starting out a family, financially ready, financially prepared, starting a new life, improve your finances, compensation, off work

Guest / November 30th, 2012 / 14 Comments

Another guest post swap for you today! Femme Frugality is a twenty-something-year-old woman who blogs about savings and finances as a student, young adult, mother and Pittsburgher. Head back to her site after you’re finished reading and check out our post! An often asked question when considering to start a family is, “Are we financially prepared?” In our modern world, people put off...

Posted in: Philosophy Tagged with: being a mom, factors affecting parenthood, financial effects of starting a family, parenthood, pros and cons of having a family, right time to have kids, starting a family

Frugal travel tips on the West Coast

Frugal travel tips, travel tips, cheap travel, West Coast, traveling

Guest / November 28th, 2012 / 25 Comments

The following is a guest post from Pauline Paquin, a French girl who has recently started to blog over at Reach Financial Independence. Born and raised in Paris, Pauline blogs about how she has been traveling the world for the past 10 years, while trying to build wealth and achieve financial independence, and how you can follow your dreams and reach your goals too. You can follow Pauline on...

Posted in: Travel Tagged with: cheap flights, cheap travel, deals on travel, travel deals, travel tips, travel to the west coast

Selling items effectively on Craigslist

Selling items effectively, selling, craigslist, seller

CF / November 26th, 2012 / 33 Comments

Brian and I got rid of a lot of items prior to our move to the new condo. One of the reasons was practical – we simply didn’t have the room in the new place to keep everything! A lesser but equally important reason – we wanted to pare down on the number of items that we had. But what to do with all our crap? There was furniture, books, clothes… even a electric blue...

Posted in: Home Tagged with: craigslist, craigslist app, find stuff on craigslist, how to sell better on craigslist, making more money, selling things on craigslist

Updates: November 18 – 24

Brian / November 24th, 2012 / 14 Comments

Well, all the papers are signed and we’re packing up our apartment tomorrow and moving to our new condo. Luckily, we’re pretty good at this – we’ve moved on average once every 14 months for the past seven years. We also have a whole week to complete the move, but we’re planing on starting to live in our new place on Sunday. Photo Credit: Vancouver Sun To celebrate our...

Posted in: Weekly Updates Tagged with: frugality, google page rank, minimalism, passive income, travel deals, travel tips, Varsity ridge lanes