Updates: Feb 24 – March 2 (and an awesome giveaway!)

We took a bit of a break on the giveaways, but couldn’t resist the prize offered up by our latest contest – a Canon Rebel Ti DSLR Camera! I’m not a camera geek, but I really wish that I had something of this quality to bring on trips around the world. We wouldn’t need to spend anything on art or wall hangings, you can just use photos! We’re also running a dedicate Facebook-only contest for our fans where you could win an iPod shuffle! Head over to our Facebook Page for full details.

We are extremely grateful to our hosts, Cash for Structured Settlements - these contests wouldn’t happen without their generosity. There’s some historical luck to entering contests via The Outlier Model – from the last group contest we participated in, the winning entry was chosen out of our RSS subscribers. Just sayin’.

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In other news, we’re meeting up with the Vancouver PF blogger group this weekend. Avrom from The Dividend Ninja will be joining us – I’m really looking forward to meeting someone with such a good investment background. It’s also been a busy week with the Vancouver International Wine Festival in town. This is one of our favourite events of the year and we’ve attended two tastings so far and will be heading off for a lunch event shortly. It may be damp and rainy in Vancouver, but it’s a good time of year to be here, event wise!

Check out these great posts from the week:

• Owning dividend stocks is an investment strategy of ours, yet we have often wondered what account is best for our international and US dividend holdings. The Dividend Ninja has a two part series on which (Canadian) accounts are better suited to international and US dividend holdings.

• Freedom Thirty Five Blog looks at the cost discrepancies between living in the US and Canada.

• Do you struggle with overspending? Modest Money may have the answer in a study on why you will overspend this season.

• Even though Mo Money Mo Houses didn’t reach her savings goal for 2012, I still think she’s doing pretty good!

• CF and I are a little obsessed with lowering our energy usage (to save money!). Add Vodka provides some tips and tricks to outsmart your electricity bill.

• Reach Financial Independence looks at some ways you can make your money go farther while traveling the UK.

• Jordann at My Alternate Life looks at dealing with debt as a millenial.

• Wise Dollar helps introduce the concept of Fundamendal Analysis when getting into the stock market and picking stocks. A must read for new investors.

• Young Adult Money offers up predictions on how the working world will change over the next decade and predicts the death of the 9-5 work week.

• Canadian Budget Binder talks about the high cost of finding a licensed daycare.

• NZ Muse divulges her reasons for wanting to travel the world.

 

Thanks to all the great people who included us this week:

• Family Money Values: Carnival of Money Pros – Snow Edition

• My Money Design: My Income Taxes are Done – Plus Blog Updates

• Money Life and More: Finance Carnival for Young Adults 

• Mid Life Finance: Carnival of Retirement – 59th Edition

• Canadian Budget Binder: Daycare – You are the Voice for your Children

• Prairie Eco Thrifter: Friday Links – Spring is in the Air

• Reach Financial Independence: Friday Recap 23, bloggers are human and a giveaway

•  Mo Money Mo Houses: Weekly Link Love & a Giveaway – All You Can Eat Edition

• Vix Money: Weekly Links – Boy Edition Part 1

• Canadian Budget Binder: Personal Finance Reading List #9

8 Responses to “Updates: Feb 24 – March 2 (and an awesome giveaway!)”

1. Mo' Money Mo' Houses says:

   March 2, 2013 at 11:15 am

   Thanks for the link love!

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2. Canadian Budget Binder says:

   March 2, 2013 at 11:28 am

   Those tastings you go to sound like some good times. Have a great weekend mate and thanks for sharing CBB~

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3. Amy Martin says:

   March 2, 2013 at 10:58 pm

   Great giveaway, thanks! I liked all the FB pages possible, a couple weren’t pages, but people, and you can’t like them, only friend them.

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4. Liquid says:

   March 3, 2013 at 2:46 am

   Thanks for the link share. Now that you’ve made me aware of the wine tasting thing, I might check out the festival next time. Sweet camera, I would love to play around with a new DSLR.

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5. Pauline says:

   March 3, 2013 at 9:49 am

   thanks for the mention, hope you had fun with the other bloggers!

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6. Jordann @ My Alternate Life says:

   March 3, 2013 at 12:11 pm

   Hey thanks for the link love! I kind of wish I wasn’t participating in the give away so that I could have a chance to win such an awesome prize!

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7. Budget and the Beach says:

   March 4, 2013 at 6:12 pm

   Thanks for the giveaway!

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8. DC @ Young Adult Money says:

   March 11, 2013 at 3:52 am

   Happy to be co-hosting with you!

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