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Considering a short term loan

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Guest / November 9th, 2012 / 8 Comments

This is a guest post. Considering a short term loan? More and more people are considering taking out a short term loan, and if you listen to reports it looks like the number of loans being accepted is going up every day. There are a number of socio-economic aspects that can account for the rise in the popularity of fast personal loans, though there are two factors that seem to stand out above the rest....

Posted in: Guest Post Tagged with: debt, paying off debt, saving money, short term loans

Updates: October 28 – November 3

Brian / November 3rd, 2012 / 12 Comments

This week, I’ve been struck by the realization of how incremental effort and change can add up to a big result. For the past two years, I’ve had ongoing issues with my right knee and have never put in the effort to address the issue. I went to physio for a bit, but never kept up my exercises. I’ve done yoga, but never more than once a week at the most. Considering my Mom is a physiotherapist,...

Posted in: Weekly Updates Tagged with: big result, cost of halloween, Emergency fund, exercise routine, mortgage free, personal improvement, philosophy, saving money, small changes, starting an emergency fund

Using Planwise to create a money plan

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CF / October 29th, 2012 / 17 Comments

Have you heard of Planwise yet? They’re an up and coming San Francisco based technology company that has created a pretty slick web app to help consumers plan out their finances. The basic idea is that you give the app your financial stats – income, expenses, debts and so on – and then add “Plans” on top off your baseline. Plans could be things like taking out a...

Posted in: Money Tagged with: budgeting, making a budget, new budget, new job, Planwise, saving money, spending money, staying on budget, staying out of debt

Updates: May 6 – 12

Brian / May 12th, 2012 / 3 Comments

Well, today was a busy one. The day job is getting rather busy, with our annual conference coming up at the beginning of June, so I spent my morning attempting to catch up on a lot of backlogged work. After a quick brunch, CF and I headed downtown to check out the Epic! Sustainable Living Expo. As a long time Eat! Vancouver (what’s with all the ‘!”!) attendee, I was not sure what...

Posted in: Weekly Updates Tagged with: Epic! Expo, Epic! Vancouver, saving money, Sustainable living