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Bye-bye, JC
I’ve decided to stop doing Jenny Craig for a while. There are 2 reasons for this: The food sucks I simply cannot afford to particiapte anymore, at $50-65/week minimum. I don’t know where all my money seems to be going these days, but it’s becoming obvious that I need to cut back in some areas.…
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Financial Update
*sigh* things are not looking good! My networth seems to be steadily declining for several reasons: My RRSPs are tied to the market as mutual funds, and the economy/market is not doing well lately A combination of poor spending habits and my friend’s wedding created a huge CC bill to pay Lately I’ve been pretty…
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Ginger Sets a Budget?
This blog started out as a personal finance blog, and lately I feel as though I have been drifting away from that topic, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but it’s time to get back to my roots! In a lot of the blogs I read, the bloggers challenge themselves yearly, monthly and sometimes even…
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Wedding Budget Quickie
I’m planning a total recap of the cost of being a bridesmaid shortly… For now though I will list the most recent spending I have done that falls under my “Wedding Costs” umbrella: Facial, eye brow/lash tint: $89Gift packaging: $6Makeup/supplies: $128 ————— This post written by Ginger at Ginger Won’t Snap. Like what you read?…
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Delicious Roast Beast
That’s right, I said beast! It’s a family tradition, after all… I love roast beast, it’s actually one of my favourite meals, come to think of it. It’s right up there with a turkey dinner with all the fixin’s and pizza. Yummo! One of the bloggers over at Wisebread wrote a great post on roast…
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A Financial Reckoning
So I’ve been whinging on here lately that I don’t know where all my money is going, my savings are depleting, yadda yadda. Well tonight I finally sat down and took stock of everything. I’ve had to reevaluate some things and cut others out completely, but I think I have a plan in place now…
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Splenda Fine, HoneyBunch!
You know that I love youuuuuu! I can’t help myself… I love you and nobody else! Dun Dun DunDun! (do you remember that commercial?) Haha I’ll bet you’ve got that song/jingle stuck in your head now! Sorry for the lack of posting lately. I’ve been simultaneously busy and exhausted. I keep getting home and falling…
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The Ways of Frugality
So earlier today I wrote about how I let my credit card get away from me recently… Now I’m not in debt and never have been, but I have certainly seen some lean times which cause me to go into saving mode. My recent stupid actions have pushed me into that saving mentality again. When…