July 2013 - Page 2 of 4 - The Outlier Model

Updates: July 14 – 20

relax and read a book, Vancouver travel spot, personal finance blog, personal financial read, blogs to read

Brian / July 20th, 2013 / 8 Comments

Today, we’re featured over at Canadian Budget Binder, so welcome if you’ve found your way here through Mr. CBB and a big thank you to him for the opportunity! This week has been pretty busy for CF with a big deadline at work, so I’ve been exploring some places in Vancouver that I’ve never spent much time around. It’s easy to get into a routine and forget about all the...

Posted in: Weekly Updates Tagged with: Canadian Budget Binder, expectations, freelancing, gift giving, lending money, minimalist souvenirs, Shoppers Drug Mart

July Garden Update

new community garden, Garden Update, gardening, produce, grow your own

CF / July 17th, 2013 / 28 Comments

Our June garden results were a bit of a mixed bag. We had a lot of seedlings that were a bit late getting into the ground and other seedlings that didn’t quite get enough plant food. It’s been almost nothing but sun in Vancouver lately though – prime growing weather! So how does July stack up so far? Well… New community garden The new garden is soooooo beautiful! I’m...

Posted in: Food and Grocery Tagged with: community garden, garden, harvest, new community garden, small space gardening, starting a community garden, vancouver garden

I think my LG refridgerator broke?

LG refrigerator, freezer, home appliance, refrigerator, fridge

CF / July 15th, 2013 / 38 Comments

Brian and I have a routine where we will quickly touch base about dinner plans in the morning, then take out whatever meat is necessary for dinner from the freezer. (Assuming meat is required for the recipe of course….) Well, when we did that the other day, guess what we found? A bunch of thaw and semi-thaw meat. Melted ice cubes. Some very, very, smelly fish. Crap – is the...

Posted in: Home Tagged with: broken fridge, freezer stopped cooling, lg refrigerator, lg refrigerator stopped working

Updates: July 7 – 13

Gastown Grand Prix, cycling, personal finance blogs, financial articles to read, personal finance blogs

Brian / July 13th, 2013 / 7 Comments

Well, this was a bit of an interesting week – we had to deal with a broken fridge/freezer, which CF will tell you all about on Monday! When we weren’t dealing with broken appliances, I took advantage of some free local events and checked out the Gastown Grand Prix. I love cycling and it was really cool to see the Canadian Road Champion and a Canadian member of a team currently in the Tour...

Posted in: Weekly Updates Tagged with: broken appliances, cost of owning a car, fall garden, Gastown Grand Prix, part time job, side hustle