Canadian Personal Finance Blog

Like most folks the Big Cajun Man is taking today off to enjoy his holiday, but tomorrow look for some interesting news that will most definitely change the tone and the flavour of the content on this blog.

Please also enjoy the Carnival of Catastrophic Financial Advice as well, it was one of the better posts for a while, and I was very grateful to the other bloggers who chipped in with stories, and ideas.

Yup that really is me in this picture too!

I'm A Human Cannonball Y'all!

Happy 141st birthday Canada, you don’t look a day over 85! Yes, I am taking today off, to enjoy Family and Fireworks, back to the daily posts tomorrow folks!

Canada at 150?

Given for Canada’s 100th birthday we had Expo67 (the greatest World Exposition ever, I’d like to say), what is Canada going to do for it’s 150th anniversary? Anybody know?

And Now a Large Flag

Happy Birthday Canada

Yes it is a holiday finally, and I get to enjoy the first long weekend since Easter (which seems a long way away). No stores are open around me, but Ottawa has some benefits that other Ontario cities don’t have because we have the Rideau Center, which is deemed a “Tourist Area” so all of it’s stores will be open and we are across the river from Gatineau/Hull and there all stores are open today. Will I go shopping? I might run to Tim Horton’s to have a Pro-Monarchist Coffee and Donut, but that is about it.

Happy Victoria Day

Why do we celebrate this holiday still? We need a holiday in May as simple a reason as that.

Oil is over $125.00 a barrel, and gas in Ottawa is about $1.25 a liter, so if you are driving, do it in a very calm fashion and try to save that valuable gasoline. Inflate your tires, don’t stomp on the accelerator or brake and don’t idle too long in those traffic jams trying to get home tonight!

Enjoy your day of vacation folks, I’ll be back tomorrow.

Sometimes good habits start happening and you don’t notice that you are doing them. What do I mean?

• When I stopped biting my finger nails, I started over a Christmas vacation and when I got back to work, I noticed I hadn’t indulged my obsessive habit, so I just kept doing it.
• I haven’t bought any coffee at work this year so far. Yes, I have not been at work, but that doesn’t mean this good habit should be dismissed, changes are done, one day at a time.

Interesting, I hadn’t even noticed until I started driving in to work (in the fog) this morning. Keep this in mind, have you started a good habit and you don’t even know it yet?

Starting the Year

Remember the year is starting, so starting planning the year. When are you going to have Christmas paid off? When that happens what are you going to start paying off after that debt is clear?

Under Construction

For those of you who haven’t noticed, there is a new version of this site being set up and should be up and ready very soon. Canadian Financial Opinions new site is over here, my RSS feed already points there.