The Outlier Model

Page 166

Updates: June 9-15

Bike month, personal finance blogs, articles to read, personal finance reads, financial articles

Brian / June 15th, 2013 / 5 Comments

June is bike month in Vancouver (and across Canada, based on a quick Google search). I don’t know where the idea initiated, but all month I’ve been seeing signs pop up like this one below. Photo credit: daveb_ via Flickr Bike month is a great opportunity to trade your car for a bike when commuting to work – often it only takes a few more minutes than driving, depending on where you...

Posted in: Weekly Updates Tagged with: 1000km june, bike month, june is bike month, occupation poll, paying off debt, vegetarian eating meat

2 Cats and one dumb realtor

realtor, experience with realtors, bylaws, house contract

CF / June 13th, 2013 / 19 Comments

Recently, a 2 bedroom and den unit in my condo building sold. After the sale, the realtor left notices at every unit boasting of how he sold the unit for “more than any other unit” had ever sold for and that he would be happy to “assess” any other units that were thinking of selling. Photo credit: barbourians via flickr I wasn’t very impressed – there aren’t...

Posted in: Real Estate Tagged with: buying a condo, buying a condo in vancouver, pet bylaws, strata bylaws, two bedroom condo

Hey, I got a raise

a raise, money , extra money, salary raise

CF / June 10th, 2013 / 23 Comments

I had my first ever annual performance review last week. I meet with my manager every two weeks, so I didn’t expect there to be any major issues. I’ve also only been at the job for about 7 months, so there wasn’t too much to talk about…. EXCEPT THE FACT THAT I GOT A RAISE. Woohoo! Monies!Photo Credit: areasuburn via Flickr I received a raise of about 4.5%, which is pretty...

Posted in: Career and Work Tagged with: getting a promotion at work, getting a raise at work, how to budget a raise, how to spend a raise, making a budget, new budget, staying on budget

Updates: June 1 – 8

wine exam, personal finance articles, personal finance reads, financial articles, financial blogs

Brian / June 8th, 2013 / 5 Comments

Another week and 32 wines later and I’m in the midst of studying (cramming?) for my wine exam tomorrow. But first, I’ve got to get through a day and half more class! It’s been long enough since I’ve been in school that I’ve somewhat forgotten what it feels like to study every day. I have certainly needed to study! While the concepts are not difficult, there is a lot of...

Posted in: Weekly Updates Tagged with: 2011 pouilly fuisse, breaking financial rules, practical skills, student loans, traveling in vietnam, weedproofing