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What is Financial Infidelity? and How Can You Get on the Same Page with your Spouse?

Nov 16, 20219 min read

What is Financial Infidelity? and How Can You Get on the Same Page with your Spouse?

"What is Financial Infidelity and am I a victim or a perpetrator of it?" Financial infidelity is hiding your purchases and debts from your s

For Such a Time as This...Mercy Ships Onboarding Class

Ruthy Siemens

Oct 28, 20217 min read

For Such a Time as This...Mercy Ships Onboarding Class

We have entered a weird world of transition this past month. One of our On Boarding class leaders called it a “vacation with God!” They...

First Time Canadian Homebuyers Part 3: Options for Affordable Homebuying

Ruthy Siemens

Jun 28, 20212 min read

First Time Canadian Homebuyers Part 3: Options for Affordable Homebuying

I'll be the first to admit that I had to do quite a bit of research about Canadian Homebuying rules because it's been 16 years since I...

First Time Canadian Homebuyers Part 2: What is the Mortgage Stress Test?

Ruthy Siemens

Jun 23, 20213 min read

First Time Canadian Homebuyers Part 2: What is the Mortgage Stress Test?

Buying your first home can be super overwhelming and confusing with all the rules and regulations, especially surrounding Mortgage Loan...

Ruthy Siemens

Jun 14, 20213 min read

First Time Canadian Homebuyers

I’ll be honest, when we purchased our first home, I knew nothing...absolutely nothing...My husband and I were very naïve. Did you know...

How I earned over 300K in Aeroplan points in One Year!

Ruthy Siemens

May 11, 20216 min read

How I earned over 300K in Aeroplan points in One Year!

So I started playing around with my credit card rewards points and soon realized that the travel redemption could be worth more value than t

Ruthy Siemens

Mar 30, 20215 min read

Steps to DIY Investing

Well we took the leap of DIY investing mid-January and it's been an interesting journey so far. Now, I know why my dad always said, "I don't

Ruthy Siemens

Feb 8, 20212 min read

How to Invest Your TFSA & RRSP

Don't make the same mistake that I did of having an RRSP for years that I was diligently adding money to, but it was never invested in anyth

RRSP & TFSA Guidelines and How Nurses Can Reduce their Taxes!

Ruthy Siemens

Feb 1, 20215 min read

RRSP & TFSA Guidelines and How Nurses Can Reduce their Taxes!

I'm a bit of a weirdo and actually look forward to tax season because I always get a refund which I think is partly due to my RRSP contribut

8 Reasons Why Whole Life Insurance may not be what you need

Ruthy Siemens

Jan 28, 20216 min read

8 Reasons Why Whole Life Insurance may not be what you need

What are the different kinds of Life Insurance available in Canada? Life insurance is kinda sorta boring and confusing but very important...

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Sep 14, 20206 min read

7 Steps to Prevent Student Loans

Today I'm proposing something different. What if we didn’t have to deal with student loan debt because we avoided it like the plague or lik

Ruthy Siemens

Sep 8, 20206 min read

Credit Score versus Emergency Fund

some might say un-Canadian, but what if you did something radical and didn’t care about your credit score? What if you never needed to use

Financial Mistakes that I have made over the years: my seven deadly financial sins

Ruthy Siemens

Jun 30, 20208 min read

Financial Mistakes that I have made over the years: my seven deadly financial sins

It seems easier and less acutely painful to learn vicariously through someone else's mistakes. My hope, is that you can learn from some of

How WE got MY Husband prepared to go to University without any student loan debt

Ruthy Siemens

Jun 2, 20205 min read

How WE got MY Husband prepared to go to University without any student loan debt

Anyway, that’s our story of how we made it through university from 2015-2017 and saved and prepared for that great adventure!