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Can You Afford Four Houses?

Melissa Batai / January 6th, 2014 / 18 Comments

One of my guilty pleasures after a long day of work is to watch a show or two from a series on Netflix. Right now, I’m watching the TLC series Sister Wives about a polygamist family where there is one husband and four wives. Don’t forget the seventeen kids. Photo courtesy of hollywoodlife.com. I know some people are irked by this show and the Brown family’s polygamy lifestyle....

Posted in: Editors Picks, Entertainment and Leisure Tagged with: buying a house, cost of home ownership, featured, house, housing costs, Kody, real estate, Sister Wives

Living the Canadian Dream

Canadian Dream, living in Canada, American dream, goals in life

CF / November 6th, 2013 / 23 Comments

Tagging along with posts from Jordann and Michelle at Making Sense of Cents, I’d like to throw in my thoughts on the Canadian (or American) dream. Wikipedia has a good blurb on the “American Dream”, describing it as a “national ethos” that, while changing over time, includes personal components such as home ownership and upward social mobility. It epitomizes a sense...

Posted in: Philosophy Tagged with: american dream, buying a house, canadian dream, defining wants and needs, Grocery budget, working hard