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Choosing NOT to participate in my employee stock plan

employee stock plan, company stocks, stocks, investment, stock investment

CF / February 18th, 2013 / 47 Comments

My current employer offers employees a chance to purchase company stock at a guaranteed discount. You enrol in 6 month periods and allocate a certain percentage (2% and up) of your salary towards purchasing stock. While there is a maximum number of stocks that you may purchase at one time (it’s a very high number…), the stocks are yours without restriction and you can sell them at any...

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KLM flight deals, KLM deals, flights to Prague, personal finance article, personal finance blog, financial article, financial post, financial blog

Brian / February 16th, 2013 / 15 Comments

We like to plan ahead. So much so, we jumped on an excellent Valentines Day sale from KLM and booked flights to Prague! For October. CF and I had been planning a Europe trip for this summer/fall and were waffling between France or the Czech Republic/Eastern Germany. We ended up deciding on Prague because I have to attend a conference in Leipzig at the end of October and with flights on for $850/person...

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APR on credit cards highest in years

APR on credit cards, credit cards, APR, balance transfer

Guest / February 15th, 2013 / 5 Comments

This is a guest post. If you’re interested in guest posting with us, read our policy. Towards the end of 2012, the average purchase rate on credit cards had risen as high as 19.1 per cent – up an entire per cent from the same period one year previously. In fact, 19.1% is the highest the APR on credit cards has been in 18 months in the UK. The increasing APR is perhaps a little surprising, given...

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Recipe Idea: Easy Baked Rockfish

Easy Baked Rockfish, baked fish, fish recipe

CF / February 13th, 2013 / 12 Comments

Having the most frugal grocery budget in the world isn’t going to help you and if you can’t put together at least a few healthy, tasty, and cheap eats! Every few weeks, The Outlier Model features a cheap recipe idea, along with the cost breakdown. Fish is a great protein option for people looking to cut down on their red meat intake. One fish I’ve been cooking lately is the Pacific Rockfish....

Posted in: Recipes Tagged with: alternatives to frying fish, baking rockfish, cooking a whole fish, easy fish recipe, fillet a fish, how to bake fish, how to clean and gut a fish, rockfish recipe