Canadian Personal Finance Blog

So, first I am mentioned in 1 Carnival so far this week, to Zen and the Art of Financial Planning specifically:

• The Carnival of Money Stories #8 hosted by Money $mart Life

I should be mentioned elsewhere as well, but haven’t heard much back yet.Next, I got some useful feedback on the site, so I have shortened the archive on the main page to hold only the last 7 days worth of posts. There were a bunch of other good comments, so I will be looking at revamping the page more in the near future. Thanks Canadian Dream: Free at 45 .

For those of you who are bloggers and publishers, go to my How Not To Succeed on the Internet site and help me out with my “My Blog Looks like Crap” challenge. Be brutal, ok, not too brutal, I am sensitive about a few things, but feedback on this helps me out a great deal.

From time to time I receive bogus scam e-mails (if from time to time is translated to every hour of my day), and most of the time it is painfully obvious that this is phishing or simply a scam of some kind. Evidently there is another scam going on where letters of collection are sent to folks demanding payment, which is outlined here by our friends at Canadian Money Advisor. This kind of stuff is vile and pathetic behavior, by the vermin of life. Be skeptical about anything like this especially if you don’t remember how this might have happened!

If you make your money preying on others by intimidation and/or trickery and flim-flammery, remember Karma is a nasty thing to fool with. Also remember that no matter how big a Dog you think you are, there is always a bigger Dog looking to kick your ass (translation: Sometimes, you get bit even by your own pet snake).

I used to think this stuff was funny and dismissed it by saying, anyone who fell for this was a sucker, but that’s not the case, mostly.

As ye sew, so shall ye reap my friends, and if you think it’s funny, what does that say about you? What would you think if a loved one was a victim of this crap? Not as funny, eh?

Sorry folks, this is a sensitive subject for me, and I am fighting a wicked hang over, but still, these are my opinions.