A few tricks I’ve learned to save money when driving. 1) In a multi-lane street, drive in the lane that has the least amount of cars. Preferably drive in a lane, where there are no vehicles behind you. This way you can time your stops and goes. If there is a red light 200 meters away, you don’t… Read More »
*Dividends: Discount Brokerage = $100 Discretionary Spending: Eating Out = $50 Others = $90 *Net Worth: Assets: Cash = $4,500 ( -$3,100 MoM) Stocks = $48,100 ( +$4100 MoM) Home = $243,000 Liabilities: Mortgage = $210,700 (-300 MoM) LOC Balance = $0 Total Net Worth = $84,900 ( +1.56% MoM) I put some more money into the stock… Read More »
Here are some ways we can save money if we happen to live close to the US border like here in Vancouver. Groceries and gasoline is still fairly cheap in the States than in Canada so we can time our groceries and gas trips together. That way we can get cheap milk and eggs, plus a discount to… Read More »
A voice synthesizing program lets you type in words and make the program say it back to you. Vocaloids are programs that does this but also allows users to map the words to musical notes, and manipulate phonemes, add bravadoes, etc so the voice played back sounds like singing. Combined with instrumental tracks any artist can essentially compose any… Read More »
*Dividends: Discount Brokerage = $300 Discretionary Spending: Eating Out = $185 Others = $5 *Net Worth: Assets: Cash = $7,600 ( +$2,100 MoM) Stocks = $44,000 ( -$100 MoM) Home = $243,000 Liabilities: Mortgage = $211,000 (-300 MoM) LOC Balance = $0 Total Net Worth = $83,600 ( +2.83% MoM) Great dividends for April. Unfortunately however,… Read More »
On Monday, Canadians will head to the polls. This will be my first time participating in a federal election. It’s surprising that only half of the voting population actually vote. I think one of the reasons for this apathy is that political leaders don’t engage enough people in their campaigns. For example, they talked about possible benefits for… Read More »