Last week, we got a day off from work to do this personality theory testing thing similar to Myers Brigg's and based on Jung's writings. I turned out to be an "observer", one of the traits of which is to consider both sides. So anyway, I'm too flaky / indecisive to be a life choice ...
Category Archives: expenses
Judgey McJudgeypants
A couple of weeks ago, my oldest son and I were sitting on the back deck reading - me an investing book, him an article on personal finance from maybe the Globe and Mail or the Financial Post. He was horrified at the spending habits of the person profiled in the article he was ...
Decorating is kinda expensive
Who knew? Well, you all probably knew this, but I didn't. I've just never done it before. I think I'd be happy living in a cave – as long as that cave was lined with bookshelves. The key is useless things Apparently decorating is made up of useless things that serve no purpose and they have ...
Can’t retire early because of health care? Really?
In the reader story I had over at Get Rich Slowly a few months ago, a number of people said basically: "I'd love to retire early, but I can't. I'd have to pay for my health care out of pocket and that's not possible. You Canadians can do stuff like that but you have ...
Reaching a new low and the magic “necessities” number
Sometimes there's an inverse relationship between how much you spend and how much fun you have. Sometimes there's a direct relationship between how little you spend and how cold it is. We didn't go downhill skiing over the February long weekend because it was too cold. I was really looking forward to spending that money damnit. On ...
The wacky world of child support
As readers of this blog may know, sometimes I receive child support for my youngest son from his dad, sometimes not. Usually not. I don't get too angry about it because I make more than enough to support my our kid myself. I do ...
Is Inflation Personal?
Several people in the comments of the Get Rich Slowly reader story that was posted the other day suggested that I was being a tad bit optimistic, perhaps even naive about inflation rates. According to the Bank of Canada inflation calculator here,: http://www.bankofcanada.ca/en/rates/inflation_calc.html inflation has averaged 4.4% from 1965 to 2010 and 3.1% from ...