Carrick on money: Home improvements that will sell your house

The best of the web on money, markets and all things financial, as chosen daily by Globe and Mail personal finance columnist Rob Carrick.

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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