January 2011

Working Out on a Budget

January 31, 2011

We are now at the end of January.  It’s time to check in on our New Year’s Resolutions.  Was your New Year’s Resolution to work out, to lose weight, or to live a healthier life? If so, how is that going? Are you working out for 30 minutes 4 times a week? Are you watching [...]

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Friday Roundup: Blogging, Questions, and Answers

January 28, 2011

Happy Friday DINKS. Today we are discussing our online business and the lives that we lead online as anonymous bloggers.  For some of us our online personalities reflect our real life personalities.  But for some others being anonymous online allows us to be free and more open with our opinions, views and questions.  Being an [...]

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DINKS Reality: Would you Smuggle Goods for Money?

January 27, 2011

It’s time once again for another edition of our latest financial series…DINKS Reality.  We discuss the money lessons, and sometimes the life lessons, learned from our favourite reality television shows.  With a new television channel package that my boyfriend Nick has added onto our ever growing cable bill, we now get the National Geographic Channel. [...]

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Smart Moves to Grow Rich: Q&A with Author Laura Adams

January 26, 2011

Q & A with Laura Adams, author of Money Girl’s Smart Moves to Grow Rich: DINKS:  Why did you decide to write a book? Laura Adams: Some of your readers may know that I write and host a weekly audio podcast called Money Girl on the Quick and Dirty Tips Network. The show’s been pretty [...]

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Financial Personalities: The Unhappy Money Lover

January 25, 2011

Today we are going to discuss more financial personalities in my family. The more I thought about it, the more I realized that my individual family members all have very different financial personalities. My Uncle Daniel is a middle child on my mother’s side of the family.  My Uncle Daniel is extremely successful in the [...]

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My New Year’s Resolution is to Want Less.

January 24, 2011

A few months ago I met Regan in my neighbourhood Starbucks.  Regan lives a very simple life that is not focused around, or ruled by money.  His extreme minimalist lifestyle has made me re-evaluate everything in my materialistic lifestyle.  I live in a world that is completely ruled by money. This is mostly because I [...]

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Emergency Fund Friday Roundup

January 21, 2011

Happy Friday DINKS! Let me ask you, a question.  When you get your pay check do you save your money, or do you spend it?  If you save your money let me ask you…what are you saving for?  One of your financial goals may be to build up your emergency fund, also known as your [...]

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Our Money All Adds Up!

January 20, 2011

It’s Just Money. You can’t take it with you.  Every day we hear all kinds of proverbs and anecdotes about money. As we grow older, we come to learn that they are all true.  I think that we should save what we need to but, just like spending, we also shouldn’t save excessively. There is [...]

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What We Need to Know About Investing in Foreign Markets

January 19, 2011

It is an important long term investment strategy to diversify our investment portfolio.  For some of us this includes investing in different types of investments, as well as in investments of foreign currencies.  Investing in Foreign Markets is becoming a more popular investment trend. We can invest in Foreign Markets by investing in Emerging Markets [...]

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We Can Make (A Lot) of Money with YouTube

January 18, 2011

YouTube is the “largest worldwide video-sharing community” with over 2 billion video views per day.  I am sure that we have all watched a music video, a home video, or our favourite television shows on YouTube.  YouTube is not only a place for us to watch funny videos.  It has now emerged into a massive [...]

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