August 2013 - Page 3 of 4 - The Outlier Model

Cutting down on transit costs

transit costs, transportation, saving money

CF / August 13th, 2013 / 9 Comments

When my parents were feeling the money pinch, they decided to sell their car. Good financial move right? It netted them $8000 and they didn’t have a vehicle eating up gas and insurance money any more. Well, not so good actually. They blew through the money in a month or two and now have to spend several hours walking to and from grocery stores and medical appointments. Photo Credit: DennisM2...

Posted in: Minimalism and Frugality Tagged with: car sharing, how to get around without a car, how to save money on cars, modo, saving money, taking the bus, transportation costs, zipcar

Updates: August 4 – 10

craft/nano breweries, brewery, beer, alcoholic drinks, bar, personal financial blogs to read, personal finance, financial articles, financial reads

Brian / August 10th, 2013 / 6 Comments

For the past several months, I’ve walked by a new brewery that was being built and eagerly awaiting it’s completion. On my way home from work earlier this week, I finally noticed they were open! Naturally I stopped by and had some of their beer! There are about 4 or 5 different craft/nano breweries opening up across Vancouver, so I hope to support as many as possible. It is really encouraging...

Posted in: Weekly Updates Tagged with: 33 acres brewing, airbnb, hours blogging, local craft beer, nano brewery, retirement plans

How to save money on textbooks

save money on textbooks, college life, college books, textbooks

CF / August 7th, 2013 / 26 Comments

In my first year of college, textbooks cost me an astounding $800. That’s an absolutely disgusting amount for something that I might use once a week. And that was only one year of school! I think I ended up needed only a handful of chapters (if that) out of each textbook. Schools will encourage you to buy books through the college bookstore, but that is definitely not your only source of textbooks....

Posted in: Minimalism and Frugality Tagged with: borrow books from the library, cheap textbooks, pay less for school books, save money on school, using ebooks for university

Investment update: 2013

Investment update, stock exchange, investments, investment activities

Brian / August 5th, 2013 / 11 Comments

It’s been awhile since we provided an update on our investment plans but you can check out our 2011 investment update as a reference from where we’ve come from! Since then, we’ve added another property to our real estate portfolio and are in the process of moving all our RRSP and TFSA investments to an online brokerage. we continue to be successful landlords and are working towards...

Posted in: Money Tagged with: BMO, ETF's, investing, low cost investing, Questrade, RRSP, RRSP vs. TFSA, TFSA, transfer rrsp