Family

The Best Gifts Come From The Heart

December 20, 2011

Good Morning DINKS.  We are in the middle of the gift giving season and I want to tell you about some of my favourite gifts from Christmas’ past.  My favourite gifts were not the most expensive gifts, but they were the ones with the most thought put into them; and that is what makes them [...]

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How to Talk About Money With Your Spouse

December 10, 2011
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(Guest Post by Nick Charles) Living and sharing your money with someone isn’t always an easy task. When you choose to share your life in close quarters with someone, you start to learn more intimate details about their life – their bathroom habits, the little eccentricities that drive you nuts, those you can live with, [...]

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A DINK No More

November 23, 2011

(Guest Post by Eveline Bernices) Good afternoon to all of my DINK friends. As some of you might have heard, we have lost several members of our special little society over the past couple of weeks. According to sources like the New York Times, the population of Earth has reached over 7 billion people. While [...]

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Is the Middle Class our Economy’s Underdog?

October 31, 2011

Good Morning DINKS. Today we are discussing our Class Status.  I am almost embarrassed to bring this up because I don’t personally feel that people should brag about their money or wealth, and I definitely don’t think that people should compare their riches with the riches (or lack of riches) of other people.  But, I [...]

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Our Financial Personalities: Do you love “stuff”?

October 26, 2011

Last week I went to Toronto to see my Mother for a belated (Canadian) Thanksgiving celebration.  While we were shopping she was willing to spend $200 on a new handbag, and she almost did it, but thank goodness she controlled herself. I am trying to live a less materialistic lifestyle where I save more and [...]

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Friday Roundup: In Laws, House Guests, and Travelling

August 12, 2011

Happy Friday Everyone!  I successfully survived the three and a half week visit with my Mother In Law.  She is visiting (and staying with) us from out of town for three and a half weeks and so far it’s been great having her around.  My boyfriend’s family is refreshingly normal compared to my crazy and [...]

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Do Your Parents Have a Mortgage?

May 18, 2011

The days of couples retiring with a mortgage are a thing of the past.  Nowadays more and more of our parents are retiring with a mortgage on their home.  The days of getting a 30 year mortgage at the age of 25, and having it paid off by the time we retire at 55 is [...]

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My Parents’ Financial Personalities

April 12, 2011

The older I get and the more I analyze the different personality traits of my two parents, I start to understand more and more why they got divorced.  Just as in many other ways, my parent’s financial personalities are very different.  As we know, my family has several different personalities such as my Uncle, the [...]

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Oprah’s Money and Her Secret Sister

March 3, 2011

News broke out a few weeks ago that Oprah has a secret half sister.  I am not a big fan of Oprah as an entertainer, but I am a big fan of Oprah as a business woman.  The news of Oprah’s secret sister came out of left field.  As Oprah is a brilliant business woman, [...]

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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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