Investing

Free $50 to Take the RBC Banking Statement Challenge!

You’ve probably seen the ads around everywhere: RBC will give you $50 visa gift card for a face-to-face opportunity to prove their bank can offer better products and services. I, genuinely interested in their services and more so the gift card, booked an appointment…

Travel

A Winter Escape Cost Proposal

  We’re catching up on posting about life here on Urban Departures, so let me tell you about our impromptu-ish vacation in December. At the beginning of November, both Daniel and I had a week’s worth of time-in-lieu, paid-time-off from work accrued from overtime…

Investing

2014 Year in Review: Urban Departures Savings Rate

Okay, we’ve just tallied up our savings for 2014 to calculate our annual savings rate. We started the year with a goal to save 25% of our gross income, which would include our company contributions to our RRSPs, and maintain a monthly savings rate…

Lifestyle

2015, We’re Here!

Why hello there. We’re 12 days into the new year. Happy 2015! We’ve been moving slowly for the last two weeks. I didn’t mean to take time off from the blog; I tried to write a few posts during the holidays, but we just…

Travel hacking for Canadians
Travel

Review: Travel Hacking for Canadians

We like to go places. We value the many benefits of travel but it does cost money. It is, however, a misconception that travel is too expensive. Traveling costs as much or as little as you so decide. A coworker recently took a two week long…