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How I Did In On My 2012 New Year’s Resolutions
I find that it is often painful and embarrassing to look back on New Year’s resolutions, but in the name if accountability, here is glance back at 2012: Money-Related Goals 1) Save 35% of my net...
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A Look Back At Past Predictions
During the first week of 2012 I made several predictions about stuff financial bloggers are supposed to know about. Some of it I got right, a lot of it I didn’t, but overall I think I probably did...
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Four Stocks for 2013
Wait… the guy that write a free eBook on why picking stocks is a ridiculous way to invest is jumping into a stock picking contest? Yes, I admit that I like to pretend I’m Warren Buffett from time to...
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How Much to Tip When You Are a Poor Student
The whole topic of how much to tip has been done to death in my opinion, but are “the rules” always the same for everyone? To be honest, I still don’t completely understand the whole notion. The...
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Goals For 2013
With everyone talking up their goals for the New Year, I figure I’d better jump on board here before the train leaves the station. For me the trick is always making sure my goals are ambitious enough...
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Why Be a Grunt When Skilled Labour Is Calling?
I have to admit that I am not great at working with my hands. I’m ok at manual labour – as long as it’s simple and doesn’t require problem solving! Basically I’m a big guy with a strong back that...
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Will a Part-Time Job Hurt Your Grades?
Part-time jobs have always been part of the landscape for post-secondary students. I was very fortunate in being able to stay out of debt by piecing together cash from a great summer job, a few...
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Questrade Introduces Free ETFs
When we first started My University Money we weren’t sure exactly what we wanted to be in terms of who we were writing for. Obviously we wanted to help the everyday student (and we think we’ve done a...
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Why Do Professors Have Such Long Booklists?
One key trick that I learned while going to university (and also one we pointed out in our book), is to go to the first few classes before you plunked down hundreds of dollars of textbooks for a...
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Is Ontario Teachers College Still a Good Investment?
As a teacher I am often asked by some of my friends (many of them with liberal arts degrees and fascinating careers as baristas and bartenders) if I think it is a good job. This is basically an...
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Is College Pro Painters a Scam?
Over the next few weeks here at My University Money we’re going to be taking an in-depth look at a few cool summer job opportunities (even though by this point you should probably have something locked...
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Don’t Trash Your Old Cell Phone
With technology evolving at such unprecedented rates in the modern world, the question many consumers have today is what to do with their old stuff. Many people simply decide that their old laptop or...
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Start Your Own Business as a Summer Job With Summer Company
You’ve got to give props to the Ontario government for giving a hip new name to a project that is trying to appeal to youth today. I mean “Summer Company” as the name of the government program that...
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