I’ve made my first $100,000
I’ve started gathering all my things to do my tax return and I stumbled upon all my Notice of Assessments from the year I had my first job. I started adding up all of the income I’ve made in the past 4...
View ArticleMy Own Happiness Project
Over the long weekend I finished reading The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin. I’ve been meaning to read it for some time now, but unfortunately reading for enjoyment during the school year isn’t...
View ArticleI’m 22 and have $5,000 saved for retirement!
Retirement usually isn’t something that is on the minds of 20-somethings, but I think it should be. When I look at how much the prices of homes have gone up in the past 20 years and compare the...
View ArticleThe Biggest Money Mistake I’ve Made
For most of my life, the only time people around me talked about money was when they were struggling with it. Thankfully for most of my life, I wasn’t struggling with money, so I felt like I had this...
View ArticleStudents: Why you need a part-time job or two
I honestly can’t believe that we are already a month and a half into school. Time is flying! Hopefully by this point you’ve started to get into the swing of things (midterms, projects, papers etc),...
View ArticleMillennials & Debt: Will we be forced to retire at 73?
Thanks to a sharp increase in the cost of university tuition over the last few decades, we might need to consider renaming Generation Y, the millennials, the Indebted Generation. Because college is far...
View ArticleI’m going to be a millionaire by the time I’m 38
So we all know I’m a spread-sheet-aholic. I love them, I adore excel, I’ll spend hours calculating my holding period return on my portfolio and I love to play with budgets to see all the fun ways I can...
View ArticleSometimes there is just too much to save for
On a small student budget it sometimes it feels daunting to be saving for all the things I’m supposed to be saving for as a good PF blogger. It almost feels overwhelming when I sit down and think about...
View ArticleWhy you need a wealth building plan
There are times when I’m on a cleaning bender that I come across old journals and notebooks. I usually take a few minutes to sit down, flip through them and look at what I was thinking back then…....
View Article2 million dollars terrifies me
… and that’s the number I want to retire with. Seeing as I’m only 23, many of my 20-something counterparts seem to think we have the better part of forever before we have to start thinking about...
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