December 2012 - Page 4 of 5 - The Outlier Model

Updates: December 2 – 8

Brian / December 8th, 2012 / 12 Comments

Last week of no internet! I’m sitting in a Starbucks across from my house right now – we’ve frequented this location multiple times over the past week to hook up. This included a VERY early morning trip at 5am on Tuesday for what I thought was the best daily deal Starbucks has on offer. Last year, they sold a special reusable coffee mug which allowed you to get free coffee when...

Posted in: Weekly Updates Tagged with: buying local, Christmas gifts, Christmas memories, Christmas Memories Group Post, farmers market, starbucks canada, Starbucks daily deals, stocking stuffers

Dealing with debt

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Guest / December 7th, 2012 / 2 Comments

The following is a Guest Post. Most of us have been in debt at some point in our lives. Credit cards, auto loans, mortgages – these are normal parts of being an adult. Whether or not it was necessary to take on that debt in the first place is another story. But many people do choose to do so, and are able to make their monthly payments on time and without hardship. Photo Credit: Images of...

Posted in: Guest Post Tagged with: auto loans, banruptcy options, credit cards, dealing with bankruptcy, fixing my finances, IVA advice from payplan.com, making a budget, making more money, minimum monthly payments, paying off your mortgage

Keep your passwords safe

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CF / December 5th, 2012 / 23 Comments

I’m not sure why it is, but every few months, I seem to hear another story about the lack of password security. Passwords are important! They literally hold the key to your email, your bank account and basically any type of account you may have online. Numerous lists of “most common passwords” exist but they all have something in common – really dumb passwords! Using...

Posted in: Life Hacks Tagged with: choosing a password, how to choose a password, keep password safe, making a good password, most used passwords, password security, remembering my password

My favourite Christmas memories

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CF / December 3rd, 2012 / 17 Comments

Thanks to Sicorra @Tackling Our Debt for organizing today’s blogging party post! You can check out the entries from all the participants back at Tackling Our Debt. As a child of immigrant parents, we did not celebrate Christmas as part of our ethnic culture. However, my parents were always proud to say that we were Canadian first and everything else second. They jumped wholeheartedly into...

Posted in: Family, Home Tagged with: childhood memories, Christmas memories, easy turkey recipe, get a golden brown turkey, Tackling our debt, turkey recipe