A Personal Finance Blog
Ah, bread. The staff of life. So beautiful in its simplicity. And yet, when you scan the prices in your grocery store, you can’t help but wonder, “Why is something so simple so frigging expensive?” Sure, you can get some not-so-wonderful bread void of nutritional content for a $1.80 a loaf. But Frankenfood is not
Personal finance experts and bloggers of all stripes don’t always agree on everything. But one consensus issue is this: Never leave free money on the table. Workplace plans like the RRSP (for Canadians) and 401Ks (for Americans) get all the attention where free money is concerned, and certainly these are prevalent plans through which employers
Purchasing razor blade cartridges for my Venus razor always made me mad. Coughing up $25 for a lousy 8 blades? How can such a price be justified? A razor cartridge is literally two tiny pieces of metal in a plastic housing. The fact that stores need to put them in shelves with a protective plastic
Don’t get me wrong. I love Millennials as much as the next person (insofar as I can love any generational cohort based on gross generalizations). In my workplace at a tech company, I’m basically surrounded by Millenials, so I’ve come to know and appreciate (for the most part) their much-discussed worldview with a kind of