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...

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,...
Change can be emotional

Change can be emotional

I did something today that has affected me far more than I thought it would.  I cancelled my home phone line.  I have been with Bell since when we had to listen to the type of ring, to know if the call was for us.  For the longest time we were two long rings. I really...
Age and Investing

Age and Investing

I was at an investing seminar put on by the local Credit Union this week.  It as an after supper presentation so it wasn’t all that long.  There were a bunch of things that struck me as I was listening to the presenters and watching the audience.  But there was...