Finance talk taboo is a bizarre concept to us at Credit Connection. For starters, talking about finances is what we excel at. However, the concept of talking about finances shouldn’t be done in hush tones after looking around to see who’s listening because talking about them is the best way of improving them. The idea […]
Financial literacy is one of the most important topics to us, and there is no better time to start teaching kids about it than in 2022! If you have read our other blogs about financial literacy, or FI for the “cool kids”, you know that it’s such a critical tool in our lives lacking in […]
There are a lot of financial hacks on the internet. Some of them are useful, and some of them are so obvious that even the most seasoned Captain Obvious would exclaim, “well, duh.” So, for the sake of this post, we’ll dispense with the “stop buying takeaway” advice and go for some that you might […]
Defeat emotional spending! We’ve all been the victim of emotional spending. Sometimes referred to as “impulse buying”, emotional spending is when a product or service’s advertising makes you emit strong emotions that will separate you from your hard-earned money. Marketing is one of those necessary evils. For people to know about goods and services, it’s […]
Everyone makes the new year’s resolution to get physically fit, but what about being fiscally fit? Sure, having six-pack abs is always great, but having financial freedom is even sweeter and will save you money instead of costing you a gym membership. We’re not talking down to physical fitness, but we’re not ones to give […]
“Expense creep” has a bunch of different names, and it’s also known as “budget creep”, “the slippery scale of ‘where’d my money go’”, and “Kevin.” Ok, the last two were made up, but the point is that there are a lot of terms to describe the occurrence of small micro additions to your budget that […]
A mentor can really change your life. Think back to the early years of your life when that one person went above and beyond for you with some life lessons and changed how you saw the world. If you’re lucky, you’ve had a few of these mentors and probably more than one that taught you […]
Asking “why financial literacy is important” might feel like something written on the chalkboard when we were all in primary school. Still, sadly financial literacy for students is not something that is readily taught. How did we get to be where we are as a civilisation without learning these fundamentals in school? I understand that […]
The general idea that we were fed growing up was that if you wanted a house, you would get a mortgage, the bank would tell you how long it would take to pay it back, and you would pay it back over that time. Little did we know the term “mortgage interest reduction” would be […]
Is there anything scarier than a large debt? You can try to put it “out of sight, out of mind” by paying the minimum, but all that is doing is making it grow with debt monster vitamins known as interest. Like when you were younger, and there was a “monster” under the bed, we’re here […]
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