Category: finances
A long, long time ago ((i.e., 5 years ago)), an intrepid young graduate (i.e., me) was buried under a mountain of student debt. More than $71,000 of student debt, in fact. Said debt was originally in the form of no fewer than 15 separate loan accounts, which were then consolidated into 3. And for the […]
In addition to buying that steak, I bought a whole bunch of other stuff yesterday. It was spend-your-Optimum-points-and-get-extra-free-money day at Shoppers Drug Mart and I had enough points to get $125 of free stuff ((Ordinarily, the points I had would have only gotten me $85 worth of free stuff, but because it was the special […]
Hey, remember that time I said that a government agency wants to give me bucketloads of money so that I can get an MBA and that I needed to write the GMAT and then apply to the program and then hopefully I’d actually get in so I can have the aforementioned bucketloads of money? Yeah, […]
So, apparently there is more to life than a 10-day long, world record breaking hockey game. I know it’s hard to believe, but while I was confined to The Compound for 10 days, life went on in the outside world. And one thing that happened while I was gone was that some payments for my […]
Two of the items on my list of 101 things to do in 1001 days are: 56. save $500 in coins 57. deposit that $500 worth of coins into my 40th birthday savings account I hit a bit of a snag in this plan in that when I moved last year, I moved into a place with no […]
As you may have seen my complain about from time to time here on NTBTWK, I wracked up a crazy amount of student debt while going through school. $71,504 to be exact. Now, when you consider that I was in post-secondary education for 11 years, it’s not actually that much – a mere $6,500 per […]
So, I made a really big lump sum payment on my student loans this month. Combining my tax return along with the amount of money I made from teaching two courses (after I used some of it to pay for my braces) meant I could make a $9,000 payment on my student loans. $9,000! Making […]
Just discovered this mostly written blog posting that I wrote on January 3rd, but appear to never have posted. Because I am awesome like that. Anyway, I don’t care that it’s fully a month after Christmas – I’m posting it anyway! Plus, I added pictures that I hadn’t even taken back when I original wrote […]
Since the shoe buying ban of 2010 is now over, I am free to yet again indulge in my love of new footwear. And since it was today is Bething Day – the Bethmas equivalent to Boxing Day – it was only appropriate for me to take advantage of the awesome Bething Day sales. Thus, […]
So I got this letter from my credit card company yesterday: Click photo to embiggenate Since I’m so awesome at paying my credit card off every month, they want to up my credit limit. Now, based on new laws, they can’t just jack up the limit without you noticing anymore; they have to ask your […]