Category Archives: Money
Paying down Canada’s mortgage.
Government applies entire surplus to federal debt 2005 federal surplus: $13 504 000 000 2005 interest paid on debt: $21View full post »
Vegas, baby!
I consider myself (and Shannen and I as a team) good at managing our money. The last few years, most excess money hasView full post »
What makes a dollar worth a dollar?
Our dollar is a fiat currency, meaning it is not ultimately exchangeable for anything (if, say, everyone wanted to tradeView full post »
Pop goes your house.
I We have no money to invest right now, with a new house and baby on the way. But I’m still following a few selectView full post »
Unsolicited Product Endorsement #62
Do me a favour – pull out your last telephone bill. What did having a land-line cost you last month? $50? PlusView full post »
CIBC and Glasses of Baileys
Let me preface this rant by saying that I’m an engineer, with absolutely no marketing training and only a vagueView full post »
Sold.
Our house sold on the weekend, on the first day of viewings to the second of four viewers. We had many more viewingsView full post »
Wanna buy a house?
Good old 973 is on the block … to join 552, 1978 and 286 as previous street numbers inhabited by the Murphy-View full post »
Law-abiding citizen
I’ll admit it…I broke the law this weekend. Actually, I probably break the law every day (What, you donView full post »
JDSU stock is awesome!
So much for helping us out in hitting 25% downpayment on our new house …View full post »
No stock for you
Just got a call from our broker – we did not get Tim Horton’s stock in the IPO. Not a surprise, but a bitView full post »
now with more vitamin k!
welcome to the new and improved forgetful.ca. we’ve migrated over to blogging software, which should make it wayView full post »