Aug 26: Best from the blogosphere
August 26, 2013
By Sheryl Smolkin
In this week’s roundup we feature series of blogs about the pros and cons of home ownership plus blogs from some of our other favourites that are great reads.
In How To Figure Out If A Home Is A Good Investment, She Thinks I’m Cheap teaches you how to do the math to find out whether you can afford a home. He also explores whether or not it makes sense to buy the largest home your bank or mortgage broker says you can afford.
Since the end of July, Gail Vaz-Oxlade has published excerpts from Chapter 4 of her book Money Rules. This very readable five part narrative tell the story of Jason (divorced with two children) and the issues he encounters when purchasing a home.
Chapter 4: A Home of My Own (Part 1)
Chapter 4: A Home of My Own (Part 2)
Chapter 4: A Home of My Own (Part 3)
Chapter 4: A Home of My Own (Part 4)
Chapter 4: A Home of My Own (Part 5)
Whether you are saving for a new home or saving for retirement, you may think you have cut out all of the fat and you can’t allocate another dollar a month from your budget to savings. That’s when Canadian Dream: Free at 45 blogger Tim Stobbs Avoids Saving Boredom by taking risks and trying out new money-saving ideas even if many don’t work.
A continuing theme in all of the blogs we write or refer you to is that saving money is not rocket science. You just have to spend less than you make. On Retire Happy blogger Jim Yih reiterates the basic principles of saving while readily acknowledging that Building Wealth is Simple, Not Easy
And finally, Kerry K. Taylor aka Squawkfox learns that The crazy cost of daycare in Toronto is about 1/3 more than she paid in B.C. and calculates how much she has to earn in order to afford it.
Do you follow blogs with terrific ideas for saving money that haven’t been mentioned in our weekly “Best from the blogosphere. Share the information with us on http://wp.me/P1YR2T-JR and your name will be entered in a quarterly draw for a gift card.
Best of, Canadian Dream: Free at 45, Gail Vaz-Oxlade, Jim Yih, Kerry K. Taylor, Retire Happy, She Thinks I’m Cheap, Sheryl Smolkin, Squawkfox, Tim Stobbs
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