How to Successfully Negotiate Your Rent
Rent isn’t as fixed as it looks. With a bit of research, good timing, and a calm conversation, you can often lower your rent or secure better terms, without risking your relationship with your landlord.
How Households Are Spending in 2025
Overall, household spending remains flat in 2025, with gains being concentrated in everyday experiences—meals out, travel, and digital goods—rather than big purchases or home upgrades.
The Death of "Saving Up": From Extreme Frugality to Soft Saving
The old way of saving—being extremely frugal—doesn’t really work in today’s world. Now, people are turning to ‘soft saving,’ which translates to saving when you can but also allowing yourself to enjoy life in the moment.
Is Uber and Rideshare Cheaper than Owning a Car?
We crunched the numbers to see whether Uber and rideshares are cheaper than owning a car. The answer depends on two things: how much you drive and how flexible your household can be.
Anti-Budgeting: Five Ways to Automate Your Finances Without a Budget
You don’t need a strict budget to manage money well—set up an anti-budget system that automates the essentials, and let the structure do the work for you.
Why Budget Culture Often Fails (and What to Do Instead)
We take a deep dive into budget culture, explaining what it is, the benefits and downsides, and provide an alternative, simpler model to understand your household finances.
Credit Scores: What They Are & Why They Matter (Plus Much More!)
Everything you've ever wanted to know about credit scores: the history, soft v. hard credit checks, why BNPL doesn't quite count yet, where to get it for free, and what counts as a good score.
Has the Rent Gap Between Large and Small Canadian Cities Ever Been This Narrow?
The long standing gap between big city and small city rents in Canada is shrinking, as asking rents in major urban centres cool and prices in smaller cities continue to rise, reshaping assumptions about affordability across the country.
Subscription Overload: An Easy Way to Audit & Understand When to Unsubscribe
Learn how many subscriptions the average person actually has and how to conduct a quick subscription audit to save money.
Summer Vacation 2025: What Families Are Really Spending, Where We're Going, And How To Make The Dollars Work Harder
Summer Vacation 2025: A rundown on what families are spending on their summer vacation, the top destinations, and tips on the best places to save and splurge.
CMHC Mortgage Consumer Survey: State of Homebuying and Mortgages in 2025
A review of the recent 2025 CMHC Mortgage Consumer Survey and what it means for Canadians looking to buy their first home or renew their mortgage.
Guide: How to Maximize the Value Of Your Credit Card Points
Nook's guide to maximizing the value from your credit card points for travel. We cover the target cents-per-point benchmarks for the major programs, a playbook for high value travel redemptions, and when cash back cards are a better alternative.