Canadian Personal Finance Blog

Archive for July 25th, 2005

Our friends over at the Canadian Capitalist had a great posting yesterday (click here) about price protection, and making sure you don’t spend too much money (one of my many laws of living, be cheap!). He saved himself $135, and if you think that is “chicken feed” or you can’t be bothered, please click on my PayPal donation button and send me some money, will ya?

I ran into the exact same thing on the weekend. My wife went out to buy diapers for our son and they were $43 at Loblaws, but then we looked at the flyer from Loblaws the next day, and the exact same diapers were on sale for $38. Did I go down to get my money? HELL YES! Five bucks is five bucks to me (oh and my wife also used a coupon on the purchase, bless her cheap heart).

There is penny wise and pound foolish, but heck, if you take care of the pennies, the dollars will fall in line too!

If you buy a big ticket item, make sure you have price protection (mind you, don’t pay extra for that either, buy from someone who offers it as a courtesy).

It’s your money, keep it in YOUR wallet!

Whoo Hoo,

Didn’t think I’d get this far, so this is kind of cool to know I have written 100 different rants about finances in Canada and at my house, cool!

I have also seen many good finance web sites (check my blog roll for a few of them), there are some very gifted thinkers out there, but remember you need to plan and do what works for you (and unfortunately, or fortunately, everyone’s financial story is different).

I will be taking some holidays soon, but ’til then we’ll keep on trucking and putting out rants and discussions of debt reduction, taxation oddities, and finances in general. I hope to revamp this page soon, so that it is a little more personal.

Keep reading, and thanks for all the comments! –C8j