DINKS Reality

DINKS Reality: Parking Wars

September 21, 2011

Good Morning DINKS.  Today we are discussing the cost of having a car.  You may remember from a previous post that buying my car was my biggest financial regret. Besides the actual cost of buying a car and the maintenance that is required there are so many other costs associated with owing a car such [...]

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DINKS Reality: Till Debt Do Us Part

August 30, 2011

Till Debt Do Us Part is a TV series with money coach Gail Vaz Oxlade that chronicles the lives of couples who are drowning in debt.  If couples successfully complete financial tasks they will earn $5000 towards paying down their debt. Couples will learn to have a positive attitude towards money as Gail Vaz Oxlade [...]

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DINKS Reality: Hoarding Buried Alive

August 24, 2011

All I have to say about hoarding is YIKES! For an obsessive compulsive hypochondriac like myself, Hoarding is beyond my comprehension. I do not understand why people don’t get rid of unused items. I also don’t understand how someone can go from being a pack rat who prefers not throw out unused items to becoming [...]

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DINKS Reality: The Lottery Changed My Life

August 16, 2011

I often wonder this about people who win the lottery or win money in Television Game Shows and Reality Shows. I wonder what they do with their money, and I often wonder if I would do the same thing. Robert Sage from Dirt Poor to Filthy Rich Robert from Florida declared bankruptcy only a few [...]

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DINKS Reality: Extreme Couponing for our Troops

July 21, 2011

Good Morning DINKS.  Today we are discussing the TLC Television phenomenon known as Extreme Couponing and how we can use coupons to support our troops.  This post is not in favour of war, nor is it unsupportive of our brave troops.  This post is simply about the generosity of people giving to others who are [...]

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DINKS Reality: Suze Orman on PBS

June 16, 2011

Last week I couldn’t help but watch Suze Orman on PBS.  We have discussed Suze Orman several times on this blog and we are about to add another informative post to the list.  Suze Orman provided money management advice to a live audience from her book The Money Class: Learn to Create Your New American [...]

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DINKS Reality: Storage Wars on A&E

May 10, 2011

“Price is Always the Issue.” Brandi Passante About two weeks ago I came across a show on A & E called Storage Wars.  It is said that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure; or in the case of Storage Wars, one man’s repo is another man’s financial profit.  Storage Wars on A & E [...]

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DINKS Reality: Extreme Couponing

April 27, 2011

Last week I saw this show on TLC called Extreme Couponing and I couldn’t believe it so I have to share. Extreme couponing is a show about extreme shopping and extreme saving.  I was in awe about the amount of effort and energy that people will spend to save a dollar. I couldn’t help but [...]

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DINKS Reality: Who Wears the Financial Pants in Your Couple?

February 21, 2011

As you know I am not married, so I don’t have any personal stories to share about my wedding. However, I am 30 years old, this is around the age when people start to get married and settle down both personally and financially. Rich Bride, Poor Bride is a show that details the wedding process [...]

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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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