The Outlier Model

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Keep your passwords safe

your passwords safe, password protection, avoid identity theft, password hacking

CF / December 5th, 2012 / 23 Comments

I’m not sure why it is, but every few months, I seem to hear another story about the lack of password security. Passwords are important! They literally hold the key to your email, your bank account and basically any type of account you may have online. Numerous lists of “most common passwords” exist but they all have something in common – really dumb passwords! Using...

Posted in: Life Hacks Tagged with: choosing a password, how to choose a password, keep password safe, making a good password, most used passwords, password security, remembering my password

My favourite Christmas memories

Christmas memories, turkey, turkey for Christmas, holidays, holidays with the family

CF / December 3rd, 2012 / 17 Comments

Thanks to Sicorra @Tackling Our Debt for organizing today’s blogging party post! You can check out the entries from all the participants back at Tackling Our Debt. As a child of immigrant parents, we did not celebrate Christmas as part of our ethnic culture. However, my parents were always proud to say that we were Canadian first and everything else second. They jumped wholeheartedly into...

Posted in: Family, Home Tagged with: childhood memories, Christmas memories, easy turkey recipe, get a golden brown turkey, Tackling our debt, turkey recipe

Updates: November 26 – December 1

Brian / December 1st, 2012 / 4 Comments

First of all, we had a couple awesome bloggers guest post with us this week, so a big thanks to Pauline from Reach Financial Independence (Being Outside of Average) and Femme Frugality (Getting Ready for Cram Time)! We did a swap with both of them this week, so head on over and read our posts too! I’ve been taking an extended weekend to finish moving, so my weekend is more than half over already!...

Posted in: Weekly Updates Tagged with: Hero's of Hastings, Heroes of Hastings, negotiating your salary, pf bloggers, Trevor Linden, Vancouver Giants, your blog is what you make it

There’s Never a Right Time

Right Time, starting out a family, financially ready, financially prepared, starting a new life, improve your finances, compensation, off work

Guest / November 30th, 2012 / 14 Comments

Another guest post swap for you today! Femme Frugality is a twenty-something-year-old woman who blogs about savings and finances as a student, young adult, mother and Pittsburgher. Head back to her site after you’re finished reading and check out our post! An often asked question when considering to start a family is, “Are we financially prepared?” In our modern world, people put off...

Posted in: Philosophy Tagged with: being a mom, factors affecting parenthood, financial effects of starting a family, parenthood, pros and cons of having a family, right time to have kids, starting a family