Tag: Servus Credit Union
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Profit Share with Servus Credit Union
As we head towards the first part of June, we have now been working with Servus for almost six months. In those six months, a LOT has changed. For instance, we bought a new house. But also, our spending habits have changed. Our partnership with Servus gave us the opportunity to sit down and evaluate…
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RESP: Free Money For Your Kids
If you’re anything like me, then a Registered Education Savings Plan (RESP) sounded like one of those adulty things you should really do once you have kids, but the why and the how were a little less specific. Well here is a doozy of a why, and if you take nothing else from this article…
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Recapping our savings journey and winning $1 Million with Servus Credit Union
As we head towards the end of April, that means we’re only eight days away from the Servus Big Share contest ending! There’s still time to enter and it’s worth it because you could win $1 MILLION! With the Servus Big Share, every time you save $500 you get an entry to win $1 Million.…
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What’s the difference between a bank and a credit union?
I touched on this briefly in my first post with Servus Credit Union, but really what is the difference between a bank and a credit union? We’re all familiar with Canada’s major banks, but credit unions seem smaller and more local, why is that? Well in this blog post I’ll break it all down for…
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How To Teach Your Kids About Money
Out of all of the blogs I’ve written about our experience with Servus, this blog has been the most requested. Money is an emotional subject for most people, couple that with the most important little people in your life and suddenly the topic of teaching your kids about money is one fraught with years of…
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Tips for choosing a financial advisor
This post is part of a paid collaboration with Servus Credit Union. I think for a lot of people the hardest part of getting started on your personal finance journey is the actual GETTING STARTED part of it. How do you choose a financial advisor? Let’s face it, our education system lets us down when it…
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TFSA vs RRSP – What are they and which is better?
For the latest blog on our Servus Credit Union financial journey, we start to dive into the real meat and potatoes of savings. And as it turns out, this is also the part of savings where I get overwhelmed and confused. TFSAs and RRSPs. What are they? What’s the difference? What should we be invested…
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Financial Goals and How We’re Working Towards Freedom
As we embark on our savings journey with Servus Credit Union we started meeting regularly with our financial advisor Brock. In our first meeting, we talked about our life and Brock really took the time to get to know us as a family. He wanted to know what we do, what we’d like to do…
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A Dive Into The Dashing Family Finances
I’m very excited to announce a new collaboration for Dashing Dad – Servus Credit Union. But why should you care? BECAUSE YOU CAN WIN A MILLION DOLLARS! I’m not joking. I’ll get to that in a bit. Personal finance is something that Dashing Mom and I have been interested in for a while. Ok, I’ll…