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Save your time and energy to plan for your retirement and education savings instead. Why worry about something you can’t control?

Save your time and energy to plan for your retirement and education savings instead. Why worry about something you can’t control?
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Set up an RESP, if you have kids, to get government grants

Congrats! I hear you’ve got a new baby on the way. You must be very excited.

If this is your child’s first year at university, you may be trying to figure out how to tap all that money you saved in their RESPs.
It costs a lot of money to put a child through University these days and Registered Education Savings Plans offer one of the best ways to save for a child’s education. In today’s post, Mike Holman, the blogger behind the Money Smarts Blog and author of The RESP Book (available on Amazon) explains the basics [...]
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Can you believe the number of people who aren’t using an RESP to save for their children’s future education?

When my kids were little ones, the RESP wasn’t the RESP we have today and I wasn’t convinced it was the best deal going. But over the past 15 years or so, the product has improved, the legislation has become more user-friendly, and the reasons to use it have become crystal clear.

Saving for university

Four tips (free-money!) to help you save for tuition