November 11th A Special Day
This week has been very short for me, as I am a Civil Servant and got Remembrance Day off, and I am taking a day’s vacation to make this a gloriously long weekend. One of my co-workers dubbed November 11th as Remember It’s Time to Start Christmas Shopping Day, which is a little disrespectful to Remembrance Day but still quite apropos for Ottawa. The stores were jammed on Thursday afternoon with happy Civil Servants starting their Christmas Spending Debacle early (but there will be more on this in the coming weeks, no doubt).
This short week the topics I covered included:
- We Shall Remember 2010 is an off topic post about Remembrance Day here in Canada.
- Glory Days where I pointed out that things were not really better when I was younger, I was just younger then.
- Canadians now have over a Trillion Dollars in Mortgage Debt, and I pointed that out in That is One Big Mortgage.
- I discussed my obsessive compulsive side in Can I have a Refund Please.
- An off topic for this blog, but not for the week of Vimy Ridge.
- Random Thoughts: Less Drop Outs shows there are fewer dropout in November 2010.
While a sad week in Remembrance of our fallen countryfolk, Â there are some excellent posts from other folks in the Personal Finance Blog world:
- Financial Highway talks about how Conviction is for Convicts – I mean Stock Investors, tell that to Conrad Black!
- Michael James pointed out the shabby way we treat some Veterans in Remembrance Day – Going Beyond Symbolic gestures.
- Jim Yih writes about RRSP and RRIF Tax traps, there are traps everywhere, aren’t their Admiral Akbar?
- Larry MacDonald keeps up the Gold Plated commentaries with his post Dividend Investors and Gold Stocks, it is Au-some (for those who love periodic table puns).
- Million Dollar Journey shows that there are Ways to Save Money on Winter Tires, and NO he does not say don’t buy them (in Ottawa, that would be suicide (if you drive a car)).
- Preet writes an article over at the Globe&Mail that shows that he is a Latte Sucking Elitist, with his comment Quit Bashing my Latte Habit, I bet he is a LIBERAL too! Latte sucking elitist Liberal, I like that turn of phrase, think I’ll trademark it.
- Boomer of Boomer & Echo, showed he wants to be an elitist new car buying snob in the post My Brand New Car, was it at least a hybrid? Elitist new car driving LIBERAL, maybe I’ll trademark that too.
For the record, I am a Civil Libertarian at heart, drive a used Toyota and drink Tim Horton’s coffee (but I am White Collar too).
Remember
“There are people who have money and people who are rich.”
-Coco Chanel
Just read all this – dying of laughter here! 🙂
Thanks for the link too! lol
Thanx for your sterling linkfest — er, I mean golden round-up.
Note to CC: I think it’s Lowell Green and he says
“cappuccino-sucking, granola crunching lefties”
Thanks Larry, didn’t want to mention that, but the spirit of the comment rang true to me!
I got some of my Christmas shopping done in my company’s warehouse sale. Just waiting for boxing day to buy some of my tech goodies 🙂
You are starting to sound like Lou Green! For those who don’t like in Ottawa, Lou Green is a radio personality here who hates the “latte sucking, granola crunching” crowd.
Thanks for the mention.
Once I saw Preet ask for chocolate sprinkles on his latte. Must have been on his way home from a meeting of the Young New Democrats.
There is no need to be insulting !
No worries, yes she does live in Calgary…so that’s somewhat excusable 🙂
For me, Christmas shopping is still about 5 weeks away. Thanks for the mention.
Thanks for the mention (I think). My mom’s not an elitist snob…but she may be a Liberal, which is worse out here in Alberta.
How does she keep from getting Lynched? Does she live in Calgary at least? I meant that as a follow on to my elitist latte snobbery of Preet, sorry your Mom got hit in the crossfire.