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Living the Canadian Dream

Canadian Dream, living in Canada, American dream, goals in life

CF / November 6th, 2013 / 23 Comments

Tagging along with posts from Jordann and Michelle at Making Sense of Cents, I’d like to throw in my thoughts on the Canadian (or American) dream. Wikipedia has a good blurb on the “American Dream”, describing it as a “national ethos” that, while changing over time, includes personal components such as home ownership and upward social mobility. It epitomizes a sense...

Posted in: Philosophy Tagged with: american dream, buying a house, canadian dream, defining wants and needs, Grocery budget, working hard

Updates: January 13 – 19

Brian / January 19th, 2013 / 6 Comments

Don’t forget to check out and enter the two contests we are participating in right now. We’re giving away $1000 cash and $100 cash! Today is my birthday! Things worked out pretty well with the NHL lockout officially ending today – you can’t ask for a much better present as a hockey fan. As if that wasn’t enough, CF and I are also going to the Vancouver Canucks game tomorrow...

Posted in: Weekly Updates Tagged with: defining wants and needs, doing business with friends, financial to-do's, Game On!, holiday party, impulse shopping cures, James Bond, money resolutions, NHL lockout over, personal responsibility, theme party