The Ultimate Back To School Savings Guide : The Saturday Weekend Review #187
GET YOUR BACK TO SCHOOL BUDGET READY BECAUSE STORE SHELVES ARE STOCKED AND WAITING FOR YOU! The back to school promotion campaign for your hard-earned money is on as just about every store in Canada...
View ArticleHow To Buy Groceries When You Live With A Roommate
LEARN HOW TO HANDLE ROOMMATE FOOD EXPENSES THE SMART WAY-BEFORE YOU SIGN ON THE DOTTED LINE. The last thing you want to find out after moving in with your roommate(s) is that your monthly expenses are...
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SOMETIMES THE BEST PATH IN LIFE IS TO FIRST BELIEVE IN YOURSELF. Friendship is a wonderful thing especially when you are networking and keeping doors open for opportunity that might come your way....
View ArticleWhat Basic Money Skills Should Be Taught In High School?- The Saturday...
PERSONAL FINANCE IS MORE THAN JUST BUDGETING YOUR WAY TO FINANCIAL FREEDOM. Teenagers may find out the hard way in the world of personal finance if they don’t understand finance basics. In the past...
View ArticleThe Ultimate Off-Campus Student Housing Needs List
NUMBER ONE STUDENT HOUSING MISTAKE IS PACKING MORE THAN NEEDED If you’re moving into student housing come September you might want to prepare yourself for dorm or apartment life with or without...
View ArticleThrift Store Back To School Clothes Are Still New Clothes
School Clothes In With The Old Out With The New Back to school is typically associated with buying new school clothes and supplies only because we’ve been sucked in by a mass marketing system. The...
View ArticleSimple Back To School Lunch Ideas For Every Budget
BACK TO SCHOOL LUNCH IDEAS MADE EASY AND INEXPENSIVE Since our son will be starting junior kindergarten this September I thought it would be fitting to start a small series on Back to School Lunch...
View ArticleHow Do Parents Budget For School Fundraising Activities? : October 2018...
THE NEXT TEN YEARS OF SCHOOL FUNDRAISING ACTIVITIES Every so often I blog about certain topics because a fan needs financial advice but today we have questions for parents reading this blog post about...
View ArticleHow We Became A Host Family For 8 HomeStay International Students
HOST INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS FOR THE EXPERIENCE OF A LIFETIME Hosting international students and becoming a Homestay Canadian host family was one of the best experiences we have ever had. We had such...
View ArticleEffective Tips On How To Start And Survive Teaching An English Class In Japan
TEACHING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE IS REWARDING Have you ever thought about how it would be to teach English in Japan? If you are planning to move to Japan and teach English to students, you might...
View ArticleSurvive Life After University With These 8 Tips
WHEN YOUR UNIVERSITY EDUCATION IS DONE, LIFE REALLY BEGINS If you thought figuring out what to do after high school was hard enough, trying finishing university and then wondering what do you do....
View ArticleThe Ultimate Back To School Budget Supplies Guide For Kindergarten
BACK TO SCHOOL IN STYLE, COMFORT AND UNDER BUDGET Whether your child is heading back to school or starting elementary school for the first time in kindergarten there are costs that need to be...
View ArticleNot All Parents Can Afford A Home School Plan : The Saturday Weekend Review #309
To Home School Or Send Your Child Back To School What once was a struggle to budget and pay the bills has become a situation far more dreadful for parents. Deciding whether to home school your child or...
View ArticleSimple Budgeting Guidance for Students
Students Who Want To Learn About How A Budget Works Simple budgeting guidance for students is very important as it’s not always taught in the school system. Money is one of the most important...
View ArticleMother’s Day Crafts For Kids: The Saturday Weekend Review #327
Mother’s Day Crafts is a great way to teach children that they don’t need to buy stuff for special occasions when homemade will do. Yesterday during our son’s Google Meet online class the teacher came...
View ArticleSavings Methods We Teach Our Autistic Son
Our son was diagnosed with ASD 1 Autistic with a sensory processing disorder in March 2022. Autism and money skills, and learning to be independent are high priorities to teach our son. Even if he...
View ArticleWhy A Good Job Doesn’t Solve Poverty: May 2022 Budget Update.
To solve poverty, there’s more that needs to be done other than earning more money, if that’s even possible. Some people increase their shopping habits when income increases because they believe they...
View ArticleWhy Student Budgeting Is Fundamental
Estimated reading time: 10 minutes Student budgeting was something I wish I had taken the time to learn more about when I was a student because it’s a significant part of frugal living. There was a...
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