Canadian Personal Finance Blog

My kids are into basketball (as is there old man, who is a beat down old center from a crappy 70’s high school team), and they wanted to get a backboard so they could practice shooting. I saw the price of them at the Canadian Tire and hummed and hawed, and decided on Huffy as the brand but was not sure of the type to buy. Procrastination paid off, the “middle of the brand line” backboard went on sale for $170 down from $290, and I then proceeded to drive to 3 different Canadian Tires to get it, so what have we learned?

• I am a cheap bastard who pinches pennies, GUILTY as charged.
• Procrastination on buying big ticket items seems to work as a strategy.
• Everything goes on sale eventually.
• Never trust a store when it says, “Our computer says the Bells Corners store has 10 in stock”, get them to call ahead, and get the name of the person at the other store, so you can at least beat them up if they lied!

What did it look like?

This is it, and it works just fine!

I awoke this morning to see pictures of places I know in downtown London devastated by bombs from the cowards who call themselves terrorists, and again I am appalled. I have family and friends in London and I pray that they are all fine. The people who did this should not be allowed to succeed in any way shape or form, and I for one, am sick of it all. Killing innocent people or non-combatants is just a cowards game.

My apologies that this is not financial based, but heck, it’s my soapbox and I am going to use it –C8j