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Krystal Yee blogs her way to financial independence
By Sheryl Smolkin Click here to listen Hi, Today we are continuing with the 2014 savewithSPP.com series of podcast interviews with personal finance bloggers. I’m talking to Krystal Yee who blogs on...
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Aug 25: Best from the blogosphere
By Sheryl Smolkin Welcome to the back to school issue of Best from the blogosphere. Regardless of what part of the country you live in, days are getting shorter, nights are cooler and there is a...
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Dec 1: Best from the blogosphere
By Sheryl Smolkin Black Friday (imported from the U.S.) will have come and gone when you read this, but if you haven’t already started your holiday shopping, the beginning of December means the...
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Jun 1: Best from the blogosphere
By Sheryl Smolkin I’m back at my desk, after a super 4-day weekend visiting my daughter’s family in Ottawa. Although we just missed the end of the tulip festival, all the lilacs were in bloom and...
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Sept 21: Best from the blogosphere
By Sheryl Smolkin Saving for retirement is important, but working for 35 years with only a few weeks of vacation a year is a daunting thought for many people. However, some companies allow employees to...
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Why some people don’t retire
We were chatting about retirement with a salesman at the local car dealership when he rolled out a bombshell – in his early 70s, he had no plans for retirement. He loved what he does and wants to...
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Could “minimalism” be a way to enhance both retirement saving and living?
Our father used to preach the value of having only one of everything, rather than multiple, redundant masses of stuff. It’s good advice that we should have followed. Dad liked to have one pocket...
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New Year’s Resolutions that actually succeeded
It’s inevitable for most of us to bail on our New Year’s resolutions early in the year — say, February. But there must be some folks who succeed, right? With that in mind Save with SPP took a look...
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Dec 21: Senior investors want to avoid risk, and running out of money
You’ll hear about it on the golf course, at the Legion, on the dance floor at line dancing, or over coffee – seniors like talking about their investments, and worry about how they are doing. Save with...
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Mar 21: More than half of Canadians don’t have a will – and should
Having a will is something that we seem to know is very important, yet don’t seem to find the time or money to get rolling on. According to the CBC, citing research from 2017, “more than half of...
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