Our Homes Updated Value

I have been waiting to write this post for a long time.  This is the post where I get to tell you that our homes value has dramatically increased since we bought it in December, 2011. Up until this point, I have been using our City Tax Assessed value of our home ($328,600), which as you may know...

The Big Backyard Project is Done!!

Check it out! The final piece to the project is done! ...

Update: LOC, Big Backyard Project, Shares & Escape Pay Off Plan

In November of last year, I was offered a Line of Credit with BMO.  We accepted it, thinking that it couldn't hurt to have the funds available - especially with planning our Big Backyard Project.  A few months back, we actually increased it from $10,000 to $40,000 thinking that it would...

Gone Camping

...well, going. We're heading out camping for the next 7 days!  Can't wait!  I don't have any posts lined up, but I'll leave with you with a photo of where we are headed. ...

Are we saving enough for retirement?

This is certainly not the first time I've asked this question, nor will it be the last.  I got to thinking about it after writing the post the other day which included an update that Jordan is contributing an additional $25/week to his RRSP Streetwise Fund with ING. I'm lucky that I...

The Big Backyard Project Update

The garage is almost done!  It's completely framed and shingles are on.  The windows are in too (just not shown in this picture). We're just a few weeks away from having this project completely finished!  ...

Recent Decision Making

The last little while, my posts have been a bit all over the place as we've had some conflicting priorities.  I've talked about buying an investment property, or investing in RRSPs or even investing with shares at work.  I've talked about paying off the escape and looked at increasing our mortgage payment. There are just so many options. Yesterday I wrote about our decision on a vehicle...

Update on our Vehicle Decision

okay...so a few weeks a go I wrote a post about fuel economy and Jordan and I trying to decide if the Escape was the right vehicle for us. We haven't decided, but we have spent a lot of time doing research.  One of the things that we are going to do the next time we wish we had a truck - is rent one!  That way, we'll get to test it out, see how it feels...is it really that much easier then...

Happy 30th Birthday Jordan!

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Networth: July 1, 2013

I feel like I have a bit of catching up to do.  I'm going to start with our networth.  We've gone down from $23K to $18K over the last month.  This is because we have paid some of the bills related to our big backyard project - the project isn't done yet, so I'm not ready to increase...