Posts Tagged ‘budget’
6 Options To Help Decide How to Spend Your Tax Refund
Your income tax refund is not new-found money. It is money that you have been lending to the government for the past 12-16 months. Make sure this money works for you and improves your life.
Read MoreReset and Restart: Personal Bankruptcy and the Relief from the Stress of Unmanageable Debt in Canada
Personal Bankruptcy is the last choice for most individuals but it is good that this process is available because, without it, there might be no relief from the stress of unmanageable debt.
Read MoreWeek 4: Teaching Children About Money Can Mean Better Financial Literacy for the Whole Family
Life presents lots of opportunities to hone your own financial literacy skills and to help your children develop theirs. Deciding that you will share as much as possible with your kids can help you to be disciplined in making decisions and dealing with the impacts on you before you share with them, and that can be a good thing for the whole family.
Read MoreWeek 3: How Students Can Learn From Their First Big Financial Decision
Students should not be left out of financial decision making for school and should work with their budget and understand it; if they are going to learn from this important decision.
Read MoreWeek 2: How To Live In Debt To No One
Calvin Coolidge once said, “There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means.” I like to think what he meant by this is that when you live within your means, you can hold your head high because you are beholden to no one.
Read MoreWhat Does It Mean to File For Personal Bankruptcy in Canada?
Personal bankruptcy provides a financial fresh start when other options are not practical. Even if you don’t want to use bankruptcy to resolve your situation, you should still understand how it works and don’t ignore the option just because of the “B” word.
Read MoreBudgeting 101 – Part 5 of 5
Catastrophic expenses are those expenses that you have no reasonable expectation of knowing that they are coming and they have a material and negative impact on your finances to the extent that you cannot recover from the impact and, in fact, may not even be able to deal with the expense in the first place..
Read MoreBudgeting 101 – Part 4 of 5
Lumpy expenses, as I call them, are expenses that we know (or should know) are coming down the track and will have to be incurred but only happen once in a lifetime or only once every couple, few, 5, 10 or 15 years (or so). Lumpy expenses can cause significant stress if you have not prepared for them.
Read MoreBudgeting 101 – Part 3 of 5
Like monthly expenses, most annual expenses are predictable; at least to the extent that you know they are going to happen. Sometimes the amount is uncertain or the amount is discretionary (you set it – requires some internal fortitude to manage).
Read MoreBudgeting 101 – Part 2 of 5
Monthly expenses should be the most predictable of the expense categories. They happen every month. Some are fixed and some are variable. With your household income, you should be able to comfortably cover these expenses including covering seasonal variations.
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