What Else?

Oh...so besides slacking off when it comes to writing about money, what have I been doing? Well my mom, Jordan, and I all had birthday's in July - and I turned 30! Yea...30. Also; we've gone camping a LOT, and BBQing a LOT...and some quading and really - just enjoying the summer. Here's some pic...

Savings Plan Update

The Escape is so close to being paid off I can taste it...we're down to $8,900 - down from $28K. After a bit of a chat with Jordan, and bouncing some ideas off of my mom; we've decided to forgo re-starting the RRSPs/Planned Savings for just a couple of months (I had stopped them all when we were switching automatic transactions from the joint-chequing to the new joint-savings work horse account). I...

I've Been Slacking

...I can't believe it's been a few weeks since I've last written...and I haven't made much progress at all with the last few things I committed to. I haven't made an appointment with a lawyer for a will - BUT Jordan and I did have some good conversations about who/how/what in terms of our estate at this point in time. I also stalled on the home inventory...but I need to get back to that too! The...

Joint Chequing - Followup

So, Jordan and decided it was totally worth the effort; and have been working at switching over all of our accounts to a joint savings account over the last little while.  We actually started before the post about considering it went up! We have 13 different companies that interact with our work...

Making a Will

We haven't finished Level 4 yet, because we're still taking our home inventory; but I didn't want to lose momentum (either in writing or in the My Money, My Choices process); so I'm going to start working through Level 5. Activity 1, is to make a will. Oi!  I knew this was coming, but I'm not sure I was ready for it just yet. Activity 2 is to name a financial power of attorney, and Activity...

Taxes! Do Them!

It boggles my mind how many people don't keep their taxes up to date; especially when they have super standard; nothing to write home about taxes to complete.  We're talking a T4, maybe 2 and an RRSP or school deduction.  Seriously.  It's not hard. It just so happens that the last two activities in Level 4 of My Money, My Choices to get this years tax return done and catch up on any...

July 1st Networth Update

guh! So...today, I was going to tell you how Jordan and I broke through the $100,000 Networth barrier!  Wow! but...we didn't. Our networth actually went down. So what happened? Our Tangerine Funds went down slightly My Sunlife Funds went down slightly We spent more money then we had We haven't...

Happy Birthday Canada

Happy Birthday Canada! I hope everyone is off enjoying the rights and responsibilities we have as Canadian's. This was just one of the last birthday photo's I took - that's my husband's shi...