Observational Personal Finance essays, stories, case studies and how to articles with a distinctly Canadian Point of View, from the Chief Kibitzer of Personal Finance. Paying it forward as best I can.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family. Hopefully you are enjoying this long weekend, and are enjoying the Feast of the Harvest.
For those wonder about how we celebrate it in the Big Caj family, this picture sums it up nicely:
New Age Thanksgiving
Stick that in your pipe and smoke it! This is how my son described Thanksgiving to his sister, and she drew it for him, you can’t tell me the mind of a child in the Autism Spectrum isn’t wonderfully different.
Happy Thanksgiving!!
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Christmas All Year Round doesn’t it feel that way? Certainly does these days, every holiday is like Christmas?
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 its 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
Queen Victoria, no doubt wondering where Prince Albert is (in the can would be my guess)
Why do we celebrate this holiday still? We need a holiday in May as simple a reason as that. In Quebec they call it Journée nationale des patriotes , and not much is closed (so maybe I can get my beer over there?).
Yes my Union Brothers let us celebrate the Workers control of the means of production, Happy Labour Day to all my hard-working brother and sisters. Sorry, it’s in my contract I have to write that.
Labor Day
Let us celebrate the worker today, who on their back Canada was built:
Our hard-working farmers, and the workers on farms (many times migrant workers), without them, we do not eat!
The factory worker who builds your stoves, fridges and even computers (yes some of them are still built-in Canada).
The cooks, servers, and cleaning staffs at all those restaurants we frequent, not a great job to have, but I appreciate your hard work.
The service workers who work in our banks, stores, cinemas, etc., etc.,, but also the new age service folks who answer the phones on the help lines (no not all of them are in India, my daughter works in a call center). Hard jobs, because you have to deal with hot-headed customers (like me sometimes).
And all my other working brothers and sisters, I say thank you and enjoy your day off (if you do, in fact, get the day off).
Labour day doesn’t have anything to do with Communism or the like, it is about Workers and today we should celebrate all their hard work!
Yes it is the first Monday in August holiday (here in Ontario), it goes by many names, however I don’t think this poor holiday does not have an official name, but enjoy it with your family, as I am. One of my favourite songs is America’s Horse with No Name, but that doesn’t really have much to do with this topic.
For your reading pleasure here are a few of the OBG (Oldie but Goody) posts I have been putting out on the BCM (Big Cajun Man) Twitter feed:
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