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Campus Gym vs Flashy Off-Campus Gym
After most of us gained the infamous freshmen 15 our first year in university (I managed to hold off my weight gain until my third and fourth years due to sports) most of my friends decided we should try to make an effort to stave off the obesity that was fast...
Dos and Don’ts of Student Credit Cards
Getting a credit card when you’re a student could be the best – or worst – decision you make. Credit cards obviously come with a number of advantages, and can be especially handy if your cash flow is not always that steady. However, if you don’t know what you’re...
Three Spending Decisions That Can Mess Up a Young Person's Finances for a Long Time
Financial troubles don’t usually start with something dramatic, such as the loss of a job or other sudden financial difficulty. Most times, they develop over a number of years. Many times, they start early in life, when you’re young and just starting out in making...
Start Your Own Business as a Summer Job With Summer Company
You’ve got to give props to the Ontario government for giving a hip new name to a project that is trying to appeal to youth today. I mean “Summer Company” as the name of the government program that will be helping post-secondary students set up a company during the...
Save Money by Sharing Expenses With Your Roommates
When it comes to college, we all know that tuition and room and board are the Big Two expenses, but it can help to keep your everyday living expenses to a minimum. You can do that by sharing certain expenses with your roommates. How much you can save by doing this...
Tree Planting Jobs for the Summer
What would a series of articles about summer jobs for students be without looking at one of the most stereotypical jobs of them all – tree planting. If you grew up in a rural area perhaps you’re already familiar with this summer phenomenon. You may have seen the...
Don’t Trash Your Old Cell Phone
With technology evolving at such unprecedented rates in the modern world, the question many consumers have today is what to do with their old stuff. Many people simply decide that their old laptop or cell phone is junk and toss it into their household garbage. While...
Is College Pro Painters a Scam?
Over the next few weeks here at My University Money we’re going to be taking an in-depth look at a few cool summer job opportunities (even though by this point you should probably have something locked up if you want to say ahead of the game). For our first “profile”...
Is Ontario Teachers College Still a Good Investment?
As a teacher I am often asked by some of my friends (many of them with liberal arts degrees and fascinating careers as baristas and bartenders) if I think it is a good job. This is basically an impossible question to answer, and on any given day my responses could be...
Why Do Professors Have Such Long Booklists?
One key trick that I learned while going to university (and also one we pointed out in our book), is to go to the first few classes before you plunked down hundreds of dollars of textbooks for a course. The reason for this is because many times professors will put...
Can I Contribute To My Own RESP?
This past week in one of my business courses that I teach we were going over the different types of registered savings accounts that Canada offers and one of my students asked me a very interesting question: “So Mr. Prevost, what you’re saying is that if someone puts...
9 Cheap Date Ideas For Students on a Budget
When you’re living on a student’s budget, dating can stretch your finances to the breaking point. You want to go out and do things with your date, but not nearly everything you both want to do is free. Since it’s almost impossible to go on cost free dates, low cost...
How To Become a Railway Conductor In Canada
As someone with B.A. I’ve written about the benefits of getting a liberal arts degree, and the challenges it presents for people who see a B.A. as a direct route to employment. In the final chapter of our new book: More Money for Beer and Textbooks – A Financial...
How Much to Give to Charity?
I often find the question of how much to give to charity a tough one to answer. After all, as a personal finance geek it can be tough to break out of the mindset of saving everywhere one can in order to prepare for the future. Realistically though, as much as we...
Why You Might Want to be an Entrepreneur after Graduation
Universities don’t usually provide much guidance on becoming self-employed. Let’s face it - they mostly train students for life in organized structures. Yet being self-employed is becoming more common with each passing year. And there are certain undeniable benefits...
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