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Choosing Your University
When it comes to choosing your university, the place you will be spending some of the most important and exciting years of your life, the endless options available can make this decision feel almost impossible to make. Because each university offers such a uniquely...
Personal Cheques And Their Alternatives
As I was paying for my rent this month I realized that this is the only time I ever use personal cheques. I remember getting a cheques in the mail for my birthday when I was younger and coming from a small town, I was able to cash them in any store. Everyone in town...
Blast From The Past – Careers
I thought I would take the initiative to dig around the archives and bring forth some of our (when I say our I mean Teacher Man’s) best articles to the forefront of our site. Today we’ll take a career theme since many students have just finished exams and may or may...
Lifestyle Inflation – The Upward/Downward Spiral
“Oh no… another lifestyle inflation article,” groaned readers of the personal finance realm when they read the latest offering from My University Money. Yes, I know, many of you have seen this before, and are probably thinking, “Man, I don’t go out and spend...
Finding Free Money With Maclean's Scholarship Finder
Last fall, I talked about how you can find scholarships and Teacher Man helped out and wrote some tips on how to apply for scholarships. Later, I even added some more ways to find scholarships, but today I discovered a new tool which will make things much easier for...
Speed Test Your Site For Stability
Today I'm going to take things off topic a bit and share my latest experience with our website issues. Lately, Google has been saying that website speed is going to be considered a factor in their search algorithm. So I thought I would do a speed test on our site to...
We Are Officially Media Moguls
“Hey man, you want to buy a blog” “Can we do that?” “Yah, but our girlfriends will kill us...” And just like that, we began the process that ultimately led to us buying a blog that is pretty cool by any metric (maybe even as cool as this one) – Young and Thrifty. If...
Quebec Student Strike
As someone that blogs extensively about the post-secondary student experience, and specifically about the Canadian scene quite often, I have tried to stay away from the contentious issue that is going on right now. I'm talking about the Quebec student strike. For...
How To Use Your Liberal Arts Degree To Get a Government Job
I have been someone negative about the job prospects out there for people like me with a liberal arts degree before. While it is still not what I recommend for most people coming out of high school, it can be a valuable tool in your career tool belt if leveraged...
Now Introducing…
Hello Readers! My name is Bridgette Stevenson, I’m seventeen years old, and am currently in the middle of making that much anticipated transition from high school to university! After graduating high school a semester early to have the freedom to do some travelling...
Mint Review
Now that Mint.com has launched in Canada, I thought I would give it a test drive to see what it can do and write up our mint review, and so far I am quite impressed. To give you a background of my financial tracking skills I have always tried to keep up to date with...
Claiming a Business Loss – Losing Money Never Felt So Good
So a couple weeks ago I sat down to get our tax situation figured out for 2011. We decided to go with a chartered account to file all of the paperwork for us. It actually worked out pretty well since he needed a website made for him and one of us (I’ll leave it up to...
The Best of Money Carnival #151 – The Gentleman's Rant Edition
Welcome to the Best Of Money Carnival! This week we decided to give a nice spin on the carnival by adding a few of "The Gentleman's Rant" in. I stumbled on these guys on YouTube and had a great laugh so I wanted to share with everyone else. Editors note: Some of the...
Why I Deserve My Own Mutual Fund
Forget this whole ETF thing baby, greed is good, passive investing is for wussies, and real men pick stocks! As long as you believe that 3 months is an accurate frame of reference, then I am a genius baby! In case you aren’t sure what I am referring to, check out my...
The High Cost Of Retail Fraud
Being a guy, I'm not really into going to the mall. But, as a former grocery store employee, (and current potato chip salesman) I can spend hours in grocery stores, just walking around, checking the space out. It fascinates me, because I understand the grocery...
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