Great news :) owning a house by 34 is still quite nice! better than most people i know of...my parents are in their 50's and they still have a biggish mortgage.
i think the cost of living vs income is the biggest art of it all. I have been crunching numbers lately about moving back to...
Yes, the envelope system needs some self control. It may not help a lot with that, though it did for me, but it helps one keep track of where they spend it.
I was single when i did that. when i met my girlfriend (now my wife), saving that much was impossible. You know that saying, buy your...
When i was a teen, I liked spending, partying and so on. Like us all :) i worked pretty hard, often 12-16 hour days in construction. made good money, but had nothing to show for it after all the "expenses".
So i\I tried a method my dad said he used when he tried to raise a baby and buy a...
WOW, thank you guys. What a warm friendly place to talk :) i like this! so many places are either stay or leave, do this or go away. what a nice change :)
I will be mid Vancouver Island, BC Canada. not real cold winters, or even long ones, but not warm either. i have a 6 month growing...
Hello, I am new here.
Me and my wife live in Taiwan, where we enjoy a low cost of living and high standard of life. But we are moving back to Canada, where i am from, and things are crazy expensive there, and we will be earning far less money. So we are looking at cutting back costs, the...