Random Thoughts: Spring/Summer Begins
With Spring starting and now summer hitting this weekend in Ottawa with ridiculously high temperatures (for April), remember the importance of getting your snow tires off quickly. Driving on your snow tires in temperatures higher than 10 degrees celsius is wearing those tires out very quickly. The exciting part is trying to get in to see a mechanic to get the tires on and off (I got in, but I had to do some quick talking to get in). Get those snow tires off (unless you live in Timmins or Sudbury, maybe wait a week or two more there).
Random Spring Thoughts
The bloggers have been busy the past little while, and there are some very interesting posts you should be keeping up with:
- No Debt Plan writes a no nonsense post about Get Out of Debt: Give Up Your Favorites pointing out that while it might have been fun getting into debt, it may not be as much fun if you really want to get out of it.
- All About Nortel quotes the Ottawa Citizen about No Relief for Ontario Pensioners pointing out that the Ontario Pension safety net may not be solvent soon, thanks to the Auto Makers AND Nortel’s pension issues.
- A tax tip from the Canadian Capitalist Beware of CRA’s defintion of Foreign Property, since it isn’t just foreign land holdings they mean.
- Where Does All My Money Go pointed out there is a new web site you should check out in The Money Belt Web Site, with some useful tools too.
- Michael James points out that sometimes folks really don’t want to hear his good advice in Investing Paralysis.
- Just Threaten to Leave is good advice from Ellen Roseman when it comes to dealing with most service companies. The consumer has a great deal of power BEFORE they sign a contract.
- Speaking as someone who thinks hyper-inflation is just around the corner I enjoyed reading Larry MacDonald’s Inflation Fears Misplaced? post. The Bank of Canada is about to print a whole bunch more money, does that not spell inflation?
- For those lovers of Twitter have a look for the BigCajunMan on there and follow me if you wish, no I do not update much, I have a hard enough time getting a daily post together, when I have my bowel movements can’t be that exciting either.
Watch for the Video on the weekend, and I may not be around Monday AM due to a ridiculously busy weekend, but you guys have a great one!
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April 24th, 2009 at 5:50 AM
Thanks for the mention. I got my snow tires off a little late this year. I’m sure that those extra 200-300 km of driving when it was fairly warm didn’t do the tires any good.
April 24th, 2009 at 8:07 AM
Tanks spanky! Have a great weekend…
April 24th, 2009 at 9:07 AM
Thanks for the reminder on the snow tires. And thanks for the mention. Have a wonderful weekend.
April 24th, 2009 at 10:39 AM
Spanky? Hmmm…. do I have a dog called bulls eye too?
April 26th, 2009 at 4:21 AM
Nice list, and I would thank you, but I was lucky to move out of that cold almost a year ago. Nonetheless, nice post. Your blog actually inspired me to create my own, Finance Advisory Stop
Being a former resident of Ottawa, and now a resident of California, it is kind of cool to see such a big blog being run by someone from where I used to live!