Welcome to Saving Money in Canada

If you're a Canadian and you've been looking for ways to save money or to cut your budget or even make a little money on the side you've likely been disappointed, as I have. The truth is that most thrifty blogs, frugal living sites, and such are American based. Great for Americans - not so great for Canadians. So, I've decided to start up my own little blog about saving money in Canada.

There are lots of ways that you can save money or make extra money but it can be difficult to find them and it can be even more difficult to find time to search for them. So, busy people often end up doing the most convenient thing, which is rarely money saving.

How Did I Get to This Point?

You might be wondering how I got to this point where saving money and making extra money has become so important in my life that I wanted to start a blog about it. Well, let me give you a little history.

I got married this past year. Everyone knows how expensive a wedding can be. So, we got a little loan - and really, not that big because we had a simple little wedding - and that got the ball rolling. Then I got a credit card, which got filled up faster than I ever thought it would. Then a cell phone for my daughter - which got lost a month later and is way to expensive to replace. Then we got the bill. She understood "all your text messaging is free" to mean EVERYTHING was free including Internet roaming. Hmmm. Huge phone bill later! What else? Well, a little loan here, a couple or more car repairs that had to go on a family members AMEX card, and it all adds up to more debt than I had planned on.

So, we've decided that things have got to change. And if we can make money on the side then we'd better do it! And that's what this blog is about.

Canadians Can Save Money How?

You'll be amazed at some of the ways that you can save money and not just on the things that are big. I know there are lots of places that will tell you about saving on your heating bill and stuff like that, but you might not see a lot of that here. I don't own a house. But if I come across something that is along that lines I'll be sure to include it.

Mostly I'm going to share with you things like:

• saving money on groceries
• cheap recipes
• budgeting
• sideline jobs
• deals on items

and whatever else I can come up with.

What Do You Want To Know?

I'm sure I won't be able to think about everything you want to know about so leave me a message with what you're interested in learning about and I'll try to find more information on that topic for you. There are so many ways to save money and make a little extra on the side and I'm sure that if we all pull together we'll find lots of ways to share them.