Wednesday, July 13, 2011

HELP US INVENT A NEW FICTIONAL COUPLE FOR OUR PERSONAL FINANCE COLUMN! AND WIN A PRIZE!

Last year on Radio Active.. our personal finance columnist Kelley Keehn told us about a fictional couple Larry and Lisa. We followed their lives from their twenties through their seventies. Every week we talked about a different decade of their lives, and the financial decisions and challenges they faced. We followed their careers and personal lives — through buying a home, inheritances, career changes, and of course the arrival of Larry’s bad-boy brother, Ricky. It was a great way to talk about financial decisions.. so we thought we’d do it again.

That’s where you come in.. we’re looking for your suggestions for a NEW couple we can follow. We don’t need you to chart out their whole lives, just give us the following:

  • names

  • age

  • occupations

  • what are they like: spenders or savers?

  • life goals

  • maybe some bumps in the road: ruining your credit, becoming a landlord, getting a new job, getting fired, not liking your financial planner, etc. etc.

  • give them any hobbies or foibles or passions you want..

    Send your suggestions to radioactive@cbc.ca. Again.. if we use your suggestion as a starting point for our new couple.. we’ll give you FOUR passes to theatre six pack

For more information, check out http://www.cbc.ca/radioactive/columnists/2011/07/12/help-us-invent-a-new-fictional-couple-for-our-personal-finance-column-and-win-a-prize/

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