Canadian Personal Finance Blog

Continuing on with my story about my home plumbing adventures, we have reached an interesting impasse with our plumbing (the house not my plumbing).

To recap, a simple gasket repair has evolved into a plumbing leak, which caused me to open a large hole in my front hallway ceiling. My wife and I are now are at the point where we have a turned off toilet (at the water valve) a hole in the ceiling and an innate fear of turning the water back on (for the toilet).

Today’s Financial question is: Is Fear a tool, or an impediment?

How many times have you not done something in your financial world because you were afraid of the consequences? Did it turn out that because of this fear you:

1. Didn’t do something that you would have regretted later (and thus fear was a good thing)
2. Didn’t take advantage of something that you now regret (i.e. fear became an impediment and it stopped you from succeeding).

Advent Financial Calendar Box Day 4

This is a trick day because yesterday’s box in a box, is actually today’s box (i.e. Safety Deposit box). What is in your Safety Deposit box (or home safe)? Don’t know? Let’s open the Safety Deposit box and look what is inside and make sure that:

• Whatever is in the box is up to date
• Everything you thought was in the box is there
• You have a list at home of what is in the box currently (which is up to date), and you know where the key is for your box as well (also very important).