99.9% of Financial Bloggers Agree
Financial Bloggers are a fun bunch to chat with, but they do love using statistics to strengthen their points, 99.9% of them agree. #Sarcasm
All Saints’ Money Tweets
All Saints day is after Halloween, and celebrates the Saints. The patron saint of money? Saint Matthew.
Spooky Prices, Falling Back, and #MoneyStories
Halloween is tomorrow, and it seems to have become yet another excuse for folks to lose their minds decorating their houses. I think a significant growth industry would be convertible home decorations, which can change from Halloween to Christmas with a simple switch. The lights should be easy enough, but I am unsure how you might change a 10-foot-tall inflated ghost into a 10-foot inflated Rudolph? Did you realize in 2011, 13.3 million Canadian homes gave out Candy? That is a lot of homes (and even more Candy).
Some very spooky food prices this week as well, OK, last week, but I note that no one seemed to really care that much about it. The election is, however, a hot topic with many of our regular contributors in terms of how the change in government will affect their lives (and yours as well).
Also, remember that on Sunday morning (really early) the clocks go back an hour, which means that if you don’t do anything, you will be early to work on Monday morning. The only way I remember is Spring Forward, Fall Back. The one nice thing about most technology is that they change their clocks themselves (except for older technology which changes on the wrong days).
For me, it is a lovely weekend ahead as well as the Rugby World Cup Final on Saturday, with New Zealand playing Australia. I think this time, I will cheer for the All-Blacks.
My Writings for Week Ending October 30th
It’s another fun Halloween ahead, or as we call it at my house, my youngest daughter’s birthday. Halloween is an OK time to have your birthday. You don’t end up getting short-changed on presents as much (like those unfortunate folks born on Christmas Day or around then).
- Canadians Paid 3.9% More For Food in September, and no one really seems to have cared one iota about it. Remember folks you can’t drink Gasoline
- If you live in Canada, You Pay Too Much For Your Telecom Needs, and things are not likely to get better any time soon.
- Is the The 4% Draw Down Theory still relevant in today’s retirement model?
Facebook Post of the Week
What do you mean there can be negative interest rates? In Sweden this may well be the case!
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You Pay Too Much For Your Phone Service
The fact that Canadians pay far too much for their telecom needs should not be a surprise, what would be surprising is actual competition in this market.
Canadians Paid 3.9% More For Food in September
The Consumer Price Index for September 2015 was up 3.9% which was not a good start to the fall season that is certain.
