Canadian Finance Blog

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 02:00 AM PST

Hope everyone had a great Christmas! Glad to see we still got another good amount of submissions, even as everyone was getting ready for the holidays.

TurboTax Boxing Day Deal

If you didn’t see it in my quick Christmas message yesterday, here’s the details on the TurboTax 2011 discount. Today only, you can save 20% off the regular price of all the different versions of TurboTax (formerly QuickTax). To get your discount today, just click the link below.

Boxing Day Sale: Save 20% on TurboTax Software

Budgeting

The Passive Income Earner at The Passive Income Earner presents How to improve your cash flow by optimizing and reducing your automated spending, saying “See how you can save money by optimizing and reducing your various monthly payments. There are many options and even if only one works for you, it’s a win!”

Frugality

Jessica at MomVesting presents Limits for Big Ticket Items, saying “Big ticket spending limits are a great idea for many marriages. Anyone who needs to be on a budget to make the finances stretch the full month can benefit from limits.”

Investing

Sustainable PF at Sustainable Personal Finance presents Giving to Charity – Sustainability for the Soul, saying “Invest in your community by donating to charity.”

Echo at Boomer & Echo presents Benefits Of TFSA vs. Non-Registered Account, saying “Experts have long recommended that portfolios be as tax efficient as possible by utilizing both registered and non-registered accounts. But then along came the Tax Free Savings Account and everything changed.”

Jim Yih at WealthWebGurus presents Snapshot performance: What do your investments look like today?, saying “One of the problems in the investment industry is a 5 or 10 year performance number can be misleading because it only takes one or two good years to make a long term number look good. When you look at a fund or an investment at a single point in time, you are looking at a snapshot of that investment at one single point in time and sometimes that can trick you.”

Group Benefits Guy at Group Benefits Online presents Anyone can save with the right incentive, saying “Do you want to save more money? Are you a saver or a spender? Did you know that anyone can save more? People need to save more and studies show that it's possible with a little incentive.”

Mike at The Financial Blogger presents Running Multiple Blogs, Earning 6 Figures, Working Less Than 40 Hours – A How To Guide To Financial Freedom, saying “A comprehensive piece on how to build an online business from the ground up.”

Mike at Do Not Wait presents Retirement Planning – Where Do You Start?, saying “What you can do right now to start planning for retirement.”

IS at Intelligent Speculator presents If I were Google CEO Eric Schmidt for one year, saying “What I would do if I were in charge of Google for one day.”

md at Studenomics presents What is Lifestyle Design & Why is it So Damn Popular?, saying “Interesting look at lifestyle design and why it’s so popular.”

Mike at Dividend Guy Blog presents 3 Reasons Why I Go Dividend Investing in 2011, saying “A look at my new asset allocation strategy.”

BeatingTheIndex at BeatingTheIndex presents Canadian REITS: Yours to Discover, saying “REITs will not make you a millionaire, but they will pay you consistent dividends on a monthly basis. This post provides will help you jump start your due diligence on this sector.”

Saving

Big Cajun Man at THE Canadian Personal Finance Site presents Holiday Banking Hours, saying “If you have any end of year banking that relies on getting to your local branch better keep track of their hours before the end of the year, or you might end up locked out.”

Taxes

Darwin at Darwin’s Money presents Would You Lend to This Guy?, saying “You’ll be astounded by the audacity of this guy who keeps borrowing money he can never repay – and those who keep lending. And then, you’ll learn who he is – you know him quite well. (Canada is in a similar situation, just not quite as bad as the US).”

Other

Mike at Green Panda Treehouse presents Money Lessons Learned from the movie Mad Money, saying “Some interesting points picked up from the movie Mad Money.”

Janet at Credit, Eh presents This Holiday Season…Priceless!, saying “As useful as credit cards are, the most important things can't be bought with a credit card. They are priceless.”