2/25/2011

Fee Free!

I am very pleased to share that Jordan and I are finally Fee Free! We closed our joint chequing account with CIBC now and have moved all of our day to day banking with ING Thrive, complimented by a suite of savings accounts!  As we had three unlimited accounts with CIBC, this will save us $467.64 a year! My personal credit card is a zero fee and is still with CIBC and I also have two RRSP...

2/24/2011

Building New

After much deliberation, Jordan and I are excited to share that we are now looking at building a home of our own rather then buying something that is 30-60 (+) years old and needs a tonne of work!  In the end we'll probably spend about the same, but have less work that we need to do right away.  This is a huge advantage for us in this particular time of our life. We're looking at building...

2/23/2011

2/17/2011

Busy busy busy....

So, we almost bought a house over the weekend.  For those of you who follow me on twitter (or talk to my mom on a regular basis) - know that it's been a crazy couple of days.  We put in a conditional offer and then the house failed the inspection - HUGE FAIL.  Basically it needed all...

2/10/2011

What's Next?

I started writing this post by hand as a journal entry.  I've been pretty stressed out lately and was writing out everything that was going and in my life and what had led up to my big cry on Sunday night.  I wrote for about half an hour before scratching it all out - I was only giving myself a stomach cramp by writing it all out - it wasn't helping. As I re-read it, I noticed a trend. Everything...

2/09/2011

Eating Out

Yesterday I posted our sixth monthly spending summary since we started tracking our spending using our credit card statements.  Today I want to write about our eating out trends.  It is the biggest and the last significant area for improvement we have in the way we handle our variable spending...

2/08/2011

Where The Money's At

This is probably going to be a long post...there are a lot of financial updates to share. Let's start with last months spending: I'm really proud of our booze spending, we cut it down significantly from every month previous since I started doing these reports!  Hopefully we can keep this trend...

2/07/2011

Off to Ontario

I'm leaving to Ontario for another work trip this afternoon and won't get back until Thursday evening. I feel like I'm being pulled in all sorts of directions lately so hopefully this time away will let me reflect and prioritize everything that's going on. I had a good talk with Jordan last night who wants me to ask for help when I need it, so I need to figure out what I need. Hope you all have...

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