Free 2026 Canadian drawdown calculator: test three withdrawal strategies to maximize CPP, OAS and GIS, avoid the clawback, and find your earliest retirement age.
Lifestyle inflation is silent and a big wealth killer. Check out my lengthy musings, and a helpful calculator, to shed some light on what lifestyle inflation, how it happens and how you can prevent it without making yourself miserable.
I was wondering how people can afford nice things so I did a deep dive into Canadian statistics and came up with nothing we didn't already know - housing and transportation have a huge impact on our finances and things have gotten very bad over the last few years. But now I have data!
I made a free budgeting app focused on privacy and manual entry with easily readable .csv files. Check out the first public version of the program and let me know your thoughts.
Figure out if a cheaper gas station is actually worth the drive. Use this calculator to compare fuel prices, distance, fuel economy, and purchase amount to see your real savings.