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Young People Don’t Have it Very Easy These Days

Rob Carrick with the Globe and Mail wrote an interesting article comparing what it was like to be a young person in 1984 versus what it’s like to be a young person in 2012.  It was a great article and really makes you think, especially about the cost of getting an education.  The reality is [...]

Health Insurance in the US Needs HELP!

If you read JD’s account of how he struggled to get health insurance, and don’t walk away thinking there is something horribly wrong with our health insurance system in the US, I would be very surprised.  It shouldn’t be this way.  It HAS to be fixed!

http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2012/04/30/hunting-for-health-insurance/

Looks Like I’ll Be Tracking the Cost of Owning a Hamster

I suppose it was going to happen sooner or later.  We finally have an actual pet at our house.  Yes, we now have a HAMSTER living in our home.  It’s been a solid week now and, so far, the Hamster has only escaped once.  While this doesn’t seem like much of an event for most [...]

Should You Buy the Rental Car Insurance?

As I posted about previously, we recently returned from vacation in Southern California.  As part of our vacation package, we opted to get a rental car while we were there.  Rental cars can be pretty reasonably priced but it’s always shocking to me how different the prices are from one company to another.  We ended [...]