[housewife]

Coach85 Coach85:

TFSA's have virtually eliminated the need for a traditional savings account. You don't need a savings account to have liquid cash.


Taking a marketing course is a good suggestion...as is a course on budgetting.

We have to prepare our kids for the real world. I'd much rather my children know how to invest for the future and keep debt at a minimum than be able to add up their lumber order in their head at Home Depot.

Ok I forgot about TFSAs

I want the same for my kids. I actually have it with one (yeah I'm bragging). Adding up your order with tax in the store isn't something anyone needs to do. Understanding the basic foundation of all courses without the aid of electronic devices is. Shit happens power goes out not usually for long but sometimes you have to go back to basics. If you have no idea what that is your in trouble.

[herbie]

Estimating is a lost art. Just ask a younger person for the time. "It's 12:14"

When I ran my store, every single day someone would pull something off the shelf and ask how much it was.
Proof they were so illiterate they couldn't even read a price sticker. Small store, still had those everything.
In every single incidence, the next question was "How much is that with tax".
But that's no surprise. Just a few years ago so many people just knew that a 5% tax plus a 7% tax worked out to way less than one 12% tax. A MAJORITY, not just a few.

[BartSimpson]

Interesting topic.

I was just up to Idaho to visit friends and to look at property for retirement (it's that time) and took a run up to Nelson on Monday to pick up an old Tucker Snow Cat and we stopped for pizza and I paid for it. Handed the girl US$100.00 to pay for a CDN$78.36 bill and she gave me CDN$98.86 change. I have no effin' idea how she came up with this but I shrugged it off, left a nice tip (why not?) and left without arguing.

[herbie]

Yeah sometimes it works out weird. Got a pizza once, they FUBAR'd the entire order and comped most of it, then when I used a gift card to pay they informed me I had to use the whole thing, no change given on gift cards.
So I told her to keep the change, so she got a massive tip for screwing up and the chain paid for it. Miracles of the modern economy.
But we're used to it in Canada. Go online, get referred to their .ca website and prices are double, triple sometimes. Plus GST, PST, duty, and shipping. The dollar's only worth 80c on the evening news, it's about 10c in real life.
Tucker SnoCat. Haven't seen one of those since I was a kid.

[BartSimpson]

The Tucker is a 1987, six passenger, and it's in unbelievably mint condition. The previous owner restored it to mint, passed away, and my friend Karl found out about it and bought it from the widow. The guy had four more of them in various stages of restoration and I hope they get picked up by someone who appreciates them.

[DrCaleb]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

to pick up an old Tucker Snow Cat and we stopped for pizza and I paid for it.

Little one, or big one? Little ones are a hoot! Big ones are just cool.

Don't think they'll be much use in Cali though.

Edit: answered - Big one!

[BartSimpson]

Karl plans on using it in search and rescue. Weiser's S&R is all-volunteer and they have to provide their own equipment. He's got ten years on me and the idea of a heated cabin appeals to him plus it's nice for transporting hypothermia victims.

[DrCaleb]

It'll be great for that. I used to have a part time job in Jasper, were I drove the Bombardier version of one. Like a Cadillac on snow.

[N_Fiddledog]

When I hear Snowcat I think of this:



Run Wendy! Run! Make it to the Snowcat.

[N_Fiddledog]

But yeah, Teeny cashier girls drive you nuts with their inability to do basic math.

Like if you group 4 quarter into a pile they should automatically see a buck. So many of them can't seem to do that.

[BartSimpson]

N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:

But yeah, Teeny cashier girls drive you nuts with their inability to do basic math.

Like if you group 4 quarter into a pile they should automatically see a buck. So many of them can't seem to do that.

The enlightened education establishment dispensed with multiplication tables and flash cards because they wanted kids to use horrifically complex processes to perform routine calculations when in reality some facts you simply just need to memorize.

Piss off a liberal: Print this out and hand it to a kid.

[PluggyRug]

Currently teaching my grandson Boolean algebra. he says it helps him understand basic algebra.
Along with binary, octal and hexadecimal.

[herbie]

Nothing to do with 'liberal', Bart's chart should be known by Grade 3.
Matter of fact, it should've been updated to go to 16 by the mid 1980s.

I don't buy the 'some people aren't good at math' excuse. I buy the 'some people are stupid' reality.

[xerxes]

$1:

Piss off a liberal: Print this out and hand it to a kid.

Piss me off; don't hand it to a kid to learn.

[Coach85]

herbie herbie:

Nothing to do with 'liberal', Bart's chart should be known by Grade 3.
Matter of fact, it should've been updated to go to 16 by the mid 1980s.

I don't buy the 'some people aren't good at math' excuse. I buy the 'some people are stupid' reality.

They sure are, your comment just proved that.

In all seriousness, some people aren't good at math. Some people "get it" later in life, others get it very early on. People learn differently. For some things, it takes a long time....if ever!