LinkStuff Halloween Edition

by Mike Holman

Squawkfox has some great ideas for Halloween costumes for both kids and adults.  Some great photos as usual. Money Ning has some advice for hanging on in the bear market. My Two Dollars has decided to hold back on his opinions (and he has a lot so this will be hard) because of too many [...]

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Wacky Business Idea #14: Barcode.com

by Mr. Cheap

Of all the business ideas that I’ve had bouncing around in my head, I think this is the #2 best idea (I’ll either finish this series with my best idea or keep it for myself. I don’t think this is the most popular “theme” we post on, so I’ll probably end it after the 20 [...]

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Introducing My New Blog – ABCs of Investing!

by Mike Holman

I wanted to share a new website that I have been working on called ABCs of Investing.  It is a basic investing site where there will be two short and simple investing posts each week.  The idea is for people who don’t know much about investing and want to learn (or even if they don’t [...]

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Falling Canadian Dollar

by Mr. Cheap

The Canadian dollar has been plunging recently.  I’m not into Forex trading (its a zero-sum game, so with transaction fees and other savvy people in the marketplace, I don’t see it as a reliable investment), but currency exchange rates affect many Canadians. Years ago I lived in the US and the Canadian dollar was worth [...]

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Linkstuff For A Big Bad Bear Market

by Mike Holman

Newish Canadian Blog Alert! Here is yet another new Canadian blog which I really enjoy – Money Grubbing Lawyer has been around for a few months and has put out quite a few entertaining articles.  He’s a pretty smart guy and while he writes about money and personal finance, he doesn’t hesitate to go into [...]

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How Do You Mail Letters That You Need To Arrive?

by Mr. Cheap

I recently had an unsettling experience. My landlord seems like a bit of a scatterbrain (I sent my rent check the first month, and she CLAIMED she didn’t receive it until 2 weeks later). Not wanting to have a repeat of this situation, I sent my next letter registered. It was recorded at Canada Post [...]

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Is the Current Market Drop Bad, Good or Irrelevant?

by Mr. Cheap

There’s a lot of fear about the stock market right now.  As Mike wrote recently, we’re in a bear market.  You read about people who are upset, people who are excited, and people who don’t seem to care. What is the right reaction? I think all three are the right reaction.  Which one is right [...]

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ING Offers TFSA Sweetener

by Mike Holman

My wife, who is an ING customer, received an email last week with a new promotion for the TFSA account which becomes effective in January.  The rules for the TFSA are that you can open up a TFSA account with a financial institution starting December 1, 2008 but you can’t transfer any money to the [...]

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Customer Service

by Mr. Cheap

Miss Manners once wrote that there’s a fundamental conflict in customer service in Western countries. We like the maxim “The Customer is Always Right” (at least when we’re the customer), but our society is built on the idea that all citizens are equal. How can one person always be in the wrong if they’re equal [...]

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