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Coursera Offering Free Online Courses to the Unemployed Until September

Allen Francis / May 20th, 2020 / No Comments

It’s a horrible feeling to feel powerless to effect change in a time when change has been forced onto the planet overnight. There is no future in despair. Yes, there are legitimate reasons to despair nowadays. I won’t lie to your face about it. I am going to talk to you about the merits of taking free online courses, offered by renowned and accredited schools of higher learning, to upgrade skills. You...

Posted in: Career, Career and Work, Education, Money, Personal Finance Tagged with: coursera, free

Seeing Vancouver BC – Free

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CF / June 26th, 2012 / 7 Comments

Summer is the best time to visit Vancouver. It’s sunny (usually), warm (usually), and there’s lots of free events and attractions to take advantage of. Even though I live here, I still do all the touristy things during the summer, especially if they are free. Here are some of my favourites: GastownPhoto Credit: K. Sy The TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival marks the beginning...

Posted in: Entertainment and Leisure, Travel Tagged with: Celebration of Lights, English Bay, free, Gastown, Granville Island, Grouse Grind, Kitsilano Beach, Lynn Canyon suspension bridge, Vancouver attractions, Vancouver International Jazz Festival

Easy moving tips – Boxes!

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CF / September 29th, 2011 / 1 Comment

The big day is TODAY and I am very excited. I can’t wait to get settled into the new place. I wrote earlier this month about strategies for packing. Today I want to talk about one of the pre-requisites of packing – boxes. Boxes can be expensive. I am not sure why this is, but it is so. Boxes from U-Haul for example, range from $85 for an “apartment kit” to several hundred...

Posted in: Life Hacks, Minimalism and Frugality Tagged with: boxes, cheap, environment, free, moving, recycle, repurpose, reuse

First yard sale of the year

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CF / April 12th, 2011 / No Comments

I’m a big fan of yard sales. I’ve picked up a lot of stuff for next to nothing and even more stuff for absolutely nothing. Brian and I went to the first sale of the year (that we knew about) this morning and. Walked away with a free deep frying “spider” skimmer. (PS – I had to look up what they were called. If you didn’t know either, check it out.) Its awesome because I like to make...

Posted in: Minimalism and Frugality Tagged with: free, garage sale, yard sale