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Budgeting is essential in taking control of one’s personal finances and a first step to building savings. Here are 13 tips to help get you started.

Saving money can be challenging, but it is an important financial habit to establish. In many ways, savings are the essential building blocks of personal finance. After all, you have to save money before you can invest it. Borrowing money, while it may certainly be helpful, is often done because one does not have enough savings to maintain a certain standard of living. In this post, we discuss key concepts to understand and characteristics to aspire for when trying to save money.

In this episode, Ellen Roseman chats with Kerry Taylor a.k.a Squawkfox, speaker, blogger and podcaster about behavioural finance, covid and whether her views about money have changed after her battle with cancer. They also chat about dynamic pricing, algorithm and loss aversion.

Ellen Roseman chats with Stephen Weyman from howtosavemoney.ca on ways to make ends meet during Covid-19. They discuss government programs, payment deferrals on loans and credit cards, saving on usual monthly expenses like utilities, creating an emergency fund and his three best tips for financial success.

Have you been affected by the Covid -19 pandemic? Janet Gray, Certified Financial Planner, and Ellen Roseman discuss the different benefits that are available to Canadians and Canadian businesses rolled out by the Government of Canada. They discuss the Canadian Emergency Response Benefit, Canada Emergency Business Account and a host of other benefits that are available.

Ellen Roseman chats with Gordon Stein about his book The Cashflow Cookbook. They discuss simple ways to save money and reduce debt without sacrificing lifestyle. They touch on cell phones, clothing, car washes, paying down debt, the idea of wealth, your net worth, saving and investing and many other topics.