Archive for the 'Spending' Category

Bell To Stop Internet Throttling - Finally Relief For Peer-to-Peer Downloaders

Tuesday, December 20th, 2011

Rogers Canada Internet connection throttling downloaders peer to peer bitTorrent

Finally after pressure from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) Bell is going to stop traffic shaping / throttling of internet traffic of their Internet customers. They were targeting specifically peer-to-peer users like BitTorrent and other P2P services. This is a good move for Bell and I think they will gain lots of customer from Rogers Internet.

Bad News For GM, Volts Power Cords May Ignite On Fire

Tuesday, December 6th, 2011

Chevy Volt electric plug fire hazard
The Chevy Volt was praised as being a game changer in the electric car market, but bugs and complaints are starting to creep up. The Volt’s is made to travel hundreds of miles before needing to recharge and the owners’ of Chevy Volt’s have raised complaints on whether the Volt’s cord can handle every outlet away from home.

Canadians Looking For Ways To Cut Spending

Friday, October 21st, 2011
Canadian cut back on spending dollar store

It’s no surprise that Canadian’s are having a hard time getting by financially. Canadian’s are currently burden down by heavy debt (Canadian household debt hits 1.5 Trillion), bills and are really having a hard time getting by. That is why about 30% of people surveyed said that they are cutting back spending simply because they feel that their financial security right now is not sound.

Read the article, copy and paste link to your browser:
http://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/Economical-turmoil-Canadians-capress-827274697.html;_ylt=Amtg7.AFOq9PaYk0HuEPizFyzJpG;_ylu=X3oDMTE4aWJpYWZuBHBvcwMzBHNlYwN5ZmlUb3BTdG9yaWVzBHNsawNlY29ub21pY2FsdHU-?x=0

Canadian Food Prices Has Gone Up Significantly - Consumer Shock

Sunday, August 7th, 2011
Rising Canadian food prices / inflation

While the United States government lies about their inflation numbers and creates inflation around the world by printing more U.S dollars, Canadian food prices have been rising at the fastest rate in two years. Many experts already know there is food inflation across the world and now it has been affecting Canadian consumers.

Statistics Canada figures showed that food prices rose 4.3 per cent in June from a year ago, . That’s the highest since July, 2009, and a tick upwards from the 3.9-per-cent pace in May.

Boomer Dreams vs Corporate Reality - Coming Real Estate Crash and Debt Problem In Canada

Sunday, June 26th, 2011

This video has some really solid statistics about Canadian peoples debt, the 30% senior citizen’s retiring and the glut of homes that will be entering the market that is going to drive home prices down.

It talks about how corporations has filled peoples head with ideas of a lifestyle that most debt ridden Canadian cannot really afford. This is a must watch, it is a hard look at the reality of things and the coming hardships.

Living With Debt - Canadian Debt Problem

Wednesday, June 15th, 2011

Canadians debt problem
Canadians now have taken on large amounts of debt and with interest rates so low, home sales presses on. However, it is not just mortgage debt that Canadians have added to their balance sheets, credit card and line of credit debt has been soaring as well. This basically is a recipe for a disaster similar to what happen in the United States running up to 2008 economic crash to happen to Canada in the future.

Woman Lives in New York’s Smallest Apartment - Making It Work

Friday, April 8th, 2011

Professional writer and organizer Felice Cohen makes things work living in New York’s smallest apartment that is close to all amenities and only blocks from Central Park. She lives by the philosophy of “Don’t Aquire What You Can’t afford”, which I think is great. People buy and collect too much “crap” these days and it just piles up. Watch the video it’s cool.

If You Buy A $284,000 CAD Lamborghini Gallardo You Expect It To Run, If Not Destroy It

Thursday, March 17th, 2011

Unreliable Lamborghini Gallardo destroyed in Qingdao china by millionaire
Here’s a funny incident in China, where a millionaire purchased a Lamborghini Gallardo and after a short while the engine cut out and would not run. He then had the Lamborghini Gallardo towed to the dealership and while towing it…the dealership damaged the body as well.

Next the dealership garage try to fix the engine problem but cool not and after complaining to the dealership manager about the body damage from the towing, the dealership refuse to be responsible for it.

Bought a 15.6″ Acer 5742-6846 Intel Core i3 380M Laptop Notebook for $499 CAD - Regular $699 - What A Steal - March 7 & 11, 2011 One Day Deal! - Review

Saturday, March 12th, 2011

Acer 5742-6846 Core i3 380M laptop notebook on sale FutureShop.caFew days ago, I was browsing the FutureShop.ca and on the front page FutueShop was having this 1 Deal-a-Day Promotion and on March 7th the deal was this spectacular deal on a 15.6 inch Acer Laptop. To be exact it was a Intel Core i3 380M (2.53 Ghz) 15 inch Laptop with 6 GB of RAM and 500 GB of hard drive space for the low price of $499.99.

The Tale of Two Singhs, BMW Makes Me A Big Shot - Living Beyond Your Means

Friday, February 25th, 2011

red , white BMW 3 series
Back in year 2003-2004 I worked at an enterprise technology company and was part of the outside sales team. There was two individuals that worked on the inside sales team…basically the group that offered sales support. The first guy let’s call him N. Singh and the second guy let’s call him J. Singh. These two individuals are real, NOT fictitious and it just so happens by coincidence that their last names are both Singh. They are also not related.