Borrowing

Borrowing

Watching TV, and even surfing the net, or just going from website to website, you get adds from Banks and Loan companies trying to get you to borrow money.  There is a famous line from Shakespeare’s Hamlet that most people know.  “Neither a borrower nor a...

Technology! How good is it??

I am of two minds about technology.  As long as we keep the human factor in the equation then I am OK with it.  On line banking was something that took me a long time to try.  Now, I don’t know how to work without it.  It is strange day when I...

Saving money in the real world.

Saving is the key to wealth accumulation.  It is the seed that gets you going.  Saving can be broken into two different areas.  There is being “FRUGAL” and actually “PUTTING CASH AWAY”.  Both of these are equally important.  If you do both you...
Food for thought Ontario: Our own Car??

Food for thought Ontario: Our own Car??

If you live in Ontario you know that General Motors is going to close its Oshawa facilities at the end of 2019.   This will affect about 2500 employees directly, and several times more employees indirectly.  Around Oshawa are all the parts suppliers,...
You never stop learning.

You never stop learning.

It has been a very emotional and trying time over the last few weeks.  I unexpectedly lost my older brother (my only brother) to complications from bypass surgery.  My 94 year old mother feel and broke her hip, and has gone downwards since.  The last time I saw her,...