Random Thoughts for a Short Laboured Week

Rushed Weeks

It is a known fact that when you have a shorter week, it feels more rushed. This is true for Labor Day as well, as it marks the end of summer. When people return to work or school after the holiday, they often have long to-do lists and high expectations. Therefore, I encourage you to give your best and strive for excellence. Those who succeed should bask in their glory, but for the rest of us, there is no excuse not to keep trying until we get it right!

Since it was a short week, I wrote about: Interest Rate Sky Rockets, How Secure Do You Feel? poked a little fun at masculinity with If it Itches… and wished you all a Happy Labour Day. It was a busy week for me, settling my kids down at various schools, hopefully other parents are starting to have their lives calm down as well. There was Random Thoughts: Back to RESP Week as well.

In the blogosphere, there were many more interesting posts out there, like:

• Michael James also sent another child off to school and noticed Changes in How University Students Pay for Meal Plans, which won’t slow down the Freshman 15, either!
• Preet and Michael James share a hatred of our mono cent in Die Pennies Die! which seems a little extreme, after all, who will Leonard date on the Big Bang Theory, if Penny died?
• Much like Maslo’s hierarchy of needs there is A personal financial maturity model – where do you fit? I believe I am the Frivolous Grasshopper who doesn’t save for the winter, end of the scale.
• Money Highway wants us to know the 20 Basic Steps to Keeping Bad Debt at Bay step zero is never get into debt, and step -1 is there is no Good Debt either.
• The Canadian Capitalist warned us of Steep Increases Forecast for Ontario Electric Prices, oh joy another grab by a money hungry utility, who would have guessed?
• The Canadian Finance Blog had a guest post by Jim Yih, who wrote about Setting Up In-Trust Accounts for Grandchildren for those who don’t want to set up RESPs, or have a lot more money to give.
• Larry MacDonald points out the importance to Take Care How You Designate TFSAs which points out an interesting flaw in the way things work.
• In Revenge of the Dumb Money Balance Junkie talks about what happened to the Goose that Laid the Golden Egg? I think I had him for dinner last week.
• Money.Smarts talks about Buying Stocks in a Down Market, that’s all part of that Buy Low, Sell High thing right?

Weekly Reminders

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