Canadian Personal Finance Blog

A good week, and some random thoughts from this week and some posts that caused me to go, “Hmmm…”

• Inflation year over year is 1.4% in March, which astounds me, but then again, it shows how little I know about things like this.
• Is found money a good thing? I attempt to give an alternate point of view in Found Money and the Prisoner’s Dilemma .
• Are financial disappointments part of life? I think they are, but recovering from them is the important part.
• Michael James talked about how your retirement funds do grow after you retire, however, maybe not as much as some folks think.
• Free Money Finance has an excellent set of videos from a contest for College Students on how to deal with the Debt Disease. One amazing example is:

  
  Watch the other ones on here they are all well worth watching!

• Time to take your Snow Tires off as well
• The Canadian Capitalist confessed his 3 biggest investing mistakes. They don’t seem as bad as some of my blunders.

Have an enjoyable weekend, check back tomorrow (Saturday) for a rare Humorous posting.

Our friends over at the Fraser Institute helps you figure out when you stop working for the government, and start earning money for you (figuratively speaking of course, since you’ve either died or been evicted if you’ve only been giving your money to the government).

What will you do with this new Freedom?

Go, sons (and daughters) of Canada, and Calculate Your Tax Freedom Day!!!!!!! and what will you do with that Freedom? Maybe go and buy a copy of Braveheart? Or Borrow it from the Library?

The company that brought us the Veg-O-Matic is going bankrupt, and it is a sad day. I grew up watching ads for the pocket fisherman and the veg-o-matic (no I never bought one of those, but I always wished I had one). Hey they gave us the original Ginzu knives, where you could slice your bread paper thin (for the in laws) and then cut a nail (why you wanted to do that didn’t make a lot of sense to me, but it was cool)!

How could a company with such cool products go under? Well Ron Popiel isn’t really running it any more, and I guess their food dehydrator and miracle ovens are not selling as well.

What about the Canadian bastion of selling stuff you don’t want K-Tel? Well they seem to be rumbling along happily these days, after a rough patch there in the 90’s. They are claiming they will be bringing their compilation albums out on Itunes! Holy Crap!

OK, so that calls for this great clip, the Super Bass-0-Matic!!!!