Boy stacking coinsLevent Konuk
The best of the web on money, markets and all things financial, as chosen daily by Globe and Mail personal finance columnist Rob Carrick.
How do you stack up financially?
Some ideas on how to grade yourself on how much you're saving, your debt level, your retirement preparedness and your level of life insurance.
Occupation: Nurse and frugalista
A Q&A with Katy Wolk-Stanley, a nurse who since 2007 has gone without buying anything new other than food and some items of clothing. You can follow Wolk-Stanley on her blog, The Non-Consumer Advocate.
Splurgeworthy hotels
L'Hermitage Hotel in Vancouver makes TripAdvisor's Traveller's Choice list of best hotels in the world.
They slice, they dice, they julienne
Ten household appliances with uses you never thought of. Clear a clogged toilet with your wet-dry vacuum cleaner, make poached chicken with couscous in your coffee maker.
More money
Join the 19,000+ people who subscribe to my Facebook personal finance community for talk about investing, retirement, real estate, banking and other financial matters. I'm also on Twitter.
Rob Carrick