A house with a sold sign in Toronto.Matthew Sherwood/The Globe and Mail
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Home improvements that put a "sold" sign on your lawn
Lots of good suggestions here, including adding new interior doors, updating light fixtures and investing in landscaping.
Best reward credit cards
Introducing CanIPayLess.com, a new website that highlights reward credit cards tailored to your personal spending habits.
Taking out the trash
We buy, we consume and then we put what's left over at the curb for garbage day. Now, an anthropologist tells us what's really going on the world of garbage by focusing on New York's sanitation workers.
The case for the spousal RRSP
Pension income splitting is available to equalize the income of couples for tax purposes, but there's also a role for spousal RRSPs.
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