Genymoney.ca: Make the Most of your Money
Personal finance, is very personal. Here’s where you can find posts about debt, about money affects your family life, and how to split finances when you have income inequality between you and your spouse.
To start, here are 6 Canadian personal finance blogs you should follow. These bloggers also share their own finance journey.
I’m an avid reader of investing and finance books and here is also where you’ll find book reviews on this subject. To help you get started with Canadian investing, here are 5 must read books on personal finance for Canadians.
Even a topic such as how to give a gift of a physical share of stock is included (we gave our son a BRK.B stock certificate for his first birthday).
Finally, there are strategies in this section to increase and maximize your Canada CCB (Child Care Benefit). It’s great to get free money from the government, a monthly cheque to deposit.
I’m a big fan of no fee banking in Canada. I hate paying banking fees and I actually never have (with exception of accidentally paying for the month a few times, but I managed to get it waived with a phone call). I have a …
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I’m a huge fan of our iRobot Roomba i4 Vacuum and felt it had really increase our quality of life. Weekly we put up all the dining table chairs to make sure that our robot vacuum, whom we call Bobby, is able to vacuum uninterrupted. …
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As promised, here is Part 2 of 40 Financial Lessons in 40 Years. These financial lessons are more focused on the personal finance rather than investing. If you want to read the financial lessons that I learned in the past 40 years that is geared …
I turned the big 4-0 recently and thought it would be good to do a 40 financial lessons in 40 years post. I had a great day, it was sunny, and I spent it with my loved ones, my kids didn’t seem to fight that …
Is the iRobot Roomba i4+ worth the money? We bought a Roomba i4+ Wi-Fi connected robot vacuum with dirt disposal for my sister in law’s family as a gift but it didn’t work for them. The iRobot Roomba i4+4550 was on sale at Costco so …
Raising children is not for the faint of heart and it’s definitely expensive, but there are government benefits that you can take advantage of to help with that. The Canada Child Benefit is a non-taxable benefit paid out to Canadian families to help them with …
The First Home Savings Account was introduced April 1, 2023. There is a lot of buzz about the tax free First Home Savings Account (FHSA) and for pretty good reason. It’s another tax shelter to help you get towards your Canadian dream of owning a …
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