Canadian Personal Finance Blog

Another Saturday video post from the National Film Board Archives. 

The House That Jack Built is from 1967 and it lays out Suburban Life (at the time), which sounds remarkably like Suburban life now.

Jack’s laments sound much like many of the laments I hear these days, until, some magic beans? Careful for what you wish for Jack, because even though you didn’t have much at the start, what do you have in the end?

Thus endeth our parable about how maybe you have (financially and in life) all you NEED right now.

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.