{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-post-tsx","path":"/how-to-reduce-your-vehicle-insurance-costs/","result":{"data":{"ghostPost":{"id":"Ghost__Post__6aa2d98e8478e50001eb1318","title":"How to Reduce Your Vehicle Insurance Costs","slug":"how-to-reduce-your-vehicle-insurance-costs","featured":false,"feature_image":"https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/thinksaveretire.com/content/images/2026/09/How-to-Reduce-Your-Vehicle-Insurance-Costs.jpeg","excerpt":"Learn practical ways to reduce vehicle insurance costs, including deductibles, collision coverage, annual kilometres, renewal shopping, and policy changes.","custom_excerpt":"Learn practical ways to reduce vehicle insurance costs, including deductibles, collision coverage, annual kilometres, renewal shopping, and policy changes.","created_at_pretty":"10 September, 2026","published_at_pretty":"10 September, 2026","updated_at_pretty":"10 September, 2026","created_at":"2026-09-10T16:23:42.000+00:00","published_at":"2026-09-10T16:30:35.000+00:00","updated_at":"2026-09-10T16:30:35.000+00:00","meta_title":"How to Reduce Your Vehicle Insurance Costs?","meta_description":"Learn practical ways to reduce vehicle insurance costs, including deductibles, collision coverage, annual kilometres, renewal shopping, and policy changes.","og_description":null,"og_image":null,"og_title":null,"twitter_description":null,"twitter_image":null,"twitter_title":null,"authors":[{"name":"Alexandra Harper","slug":"alexandra","bio":null,"profile_image":"https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/thinksaveretire.com/content/images/2025/01/AdobeStock_186401109.jpeg","twitter":null,"facebook":null,"website":null}],"primary_author":{"name":"Alexandra Harper","slug":"alexandra","bio":null,"profile_image":"https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/thinksaveretire.com/content/images/2025/01/AdobeStock_186401109.jpeg","twitter":null,"facebook":null,"website":null},"primary_tag":null,"tags":[],"plaintext":"Disclaimer: This article is for general informational purposes only and does not\nconstitute financial, insurance, legal, tax, or professional advice. Always\nreview your policy documents carefully and consider speaking with a qualified\ninsurance broker, adviser, or legal professional before changing, cancelling, or\nreducing coverage.\n\nThe renewal package arrives about a month before the policy expires: a few\nfolded pages listing coverages most households have not read since the day they\nbought the car. The address has not changed, and nobody has made a claim. The\ncar is a year older, and the premium has gone up anyway. The renewal window is\nthe one point in the year when the whole policy is in front of the household.\n\nRaising Your Deductible\nStart with the declaration page, the summary sheet that gives every coverage on\nthe policy its own deductible and its own annual price. Beside each line, the\npage prints what that coverage costs today. Each figure in that column is what \nhow to calculate insurance for a car\n[https://www.rbcinsurance.com/en-ca/advice-learning/car-insurance/how-to-calculate-car-insurance-premium/] \nproduces for one coverage, and the premium at the foot of the page is their sum.\n\nEverything that follows is a change to one line on that page.\n\nThe Three Deductibles on an Ontario Policy\nA policy does not have one deductible. In Ontario, it has three, listed\nseparately on the declaration page.\n\n * Collision, for damage the driver is responsible for\n * Comprehensive, for hail, theft, fire, and vandalism\n * Direct compensation for property damage, for damage another driver caused\n\nEach can be set at its own amount, and moving one leaves the other two exactly\nwhere they were.\n\nAll three attach to the physical damage side of the policy. Third-party\nliability and accident benefits have no deductible.\n\nBecause those two sections account for a substantial share of an Ontario\npremium, a discount quoted off collision and comprehensive is a percentage of a\nslice. A deductible that moves further from a lower starting point produces a\nlarger reduction, though how much larger has no reliable Canadian figure behind\nit.\n\nA driver who raises the collision deductible takes on more of the cost of a\ncrash they were responsible for, and care at the wheel affects how often that\nbill arrives. Raising the comprehensive deductible means covering more of a\nhailstorm or a break-in. Nothing about how a person drives changes how often\nhail falls on a parked car.\n\nMid-Term Deductible Changes and the Pro-Rata Credit\nThe change is processed as an endorsement to the existing policy, and no new\npolicy is written. The coverage continues uninterrupted.\n\nThe premium is recalculated from the effective date of the change. A driver\neight months into a twelve-month term captures roughly a third of the annual\nsaving as a credit against the remaining instalments. A policy-change fee\napplies at some insurers and comes off the credit before the refund is\ncalculated. A change made in month two produces several times the credit of the\nsame change made in month eleven, and near the end of a term the fee can exceed\nthe refund.\n\nAn amended declaration page arrives in the following days, printing the new\ndeductible against the collision line and the recalculated premium for the\nbalance of the term.\n\nDropping Collision on an Older Car\nCollision coverage pays to repair or replace a vehicle after a crash the driver\nis responsible for. The insurer’s obligation is capped at the vehicle’s actual\ncash value at the time of loss, less the deductible.\n\nCollision Premium Against the Car’s Value\nThe annual collision premium is already on the declaration page. A realistic\nprivate-sale value for the vehicle today, minus the deductible, gives the most\nthat coverage can ever pay out. The premium is the annual price of that\npossibility.\n\nCanadian vehicles lose value quickly\n[https://www.theglobeandmail.com/drive/mobility/article-do-new-cars-really-depreciate-by-30-per-cent-when-you-drive-them-off/] \nthrough the middle years of ownership, with cumulative depreciation well past\nhalf by the end of the fifth year. A decision made three years ago was made\nagainst a different number on both sides of the comparison.\n\nThe arithmetic assumes a household that can replace the car out of savings.\nWhere the vehicle has to be back on the road within a week of a total loss and\nthere is no cash to do it, the coverage is still paying out on a car worth very\nlittle. Dropping it moves that replacement cost onto the household.\n\nWhat Opting Out of Direct Compensation Removes\nDirect compensation for property damage is the Ontario coverage that pays for\ndamage to a policyholder’s own vehicle when another driver is at fault. Since 1\nJanuary 2024, Ontario policyholders have been able to opt out of it by adding an\nendorsement numbered OPCF 49.\n\nBrokers across the province advise that the endorsement also strips collision\nand upset coverage along with all perils. The endorsement wording itself is\nsilent on the point, so that caution rests on broker practice alone. Those\ncoverages cannot be added back while the endorsement stands.\n\nThe coverage given up responds when the crash was another driver’s doing.\nLeaving direct compensation in place keeps that protection on the policy at the\nprice already quoted, and a household that removes it pays its own repair cost\non days it was not at fault. The endorsement stays until the term ends.\n\nAnnual Kilometres and What the Car Is Used For\nThe application asks for the vehicle’s use class and its estimated annual\nkilometres, both of them certified by the driver who signs it.\n\nAnnual kilometres means every kilometre the car travels in a year, with the\ncommute only the starting point.\n\nDouble the one-way distance and multiply it by the number of days a week the\ntrip happens, then multiply that figure by the working weeks in the year. Add\neverything the car does outside the commute, from the weekend errands to the\nlong trips. The number the insurer rates is the household’s own total.\n\nWhen Driving Less Lowers the Price\nDistance is rated in bands. Moving from 20,000 km to 14,000 km moves a driver\ninto a different band and changes the price. Trimming a few hundred kilometres\noff an estimate changes nothing and leaves a number on the policy that is now\nwrong in the other direction.\n\nA move to telecommuting\n[https://theconversation.com/telecommuting-can-reduce-congestion-but-might-create-other-traffic-problems-164212] \nand the other changes that cut a household’s driving rarely prompt a phone call\nto the insurer.\n\n * a job change\n * retirement\n * a second car arriving in the household\n * a child moving out\n * a move closer to work\n\nThe premium does not move until the insurer is told.\n\nA car that goes to work every morning belongs in the commute class no matter how\nlow the total kilometres are. Pleasure use allows some commuting, with the\npermitted amount differing from one insurer to the next.\n\nUnderstating the number puts inaccurate information on the application\n[https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2016/04/05/404343.htm], which is\nmisrepresentation and can affect a claim. Most wrong figures are stale estimates\ngiven years ago and never revisited. Once the call is made, the amendment\nre-rates the same way a deductible change does.\n\nShopping Before Your Renewal Date\nNo two insurers price one driver alike, because each one is working from its own\nclaims experience across its own book of policyholders. A company that absorbed\na costly year passes those losses through at renewal to everyone it insures. Two\ninsurers can be a few hundred dollars apart on the same driver and the same\ncoverage for that reason alone.\n\nRenewal pricing is finalized roughly one to two months out, which is where\nCanadian guidance gets its window of 30 to 60 days before the expiry date.\nStarting inside that window leaves time to gather quotes without deciding in a\nhurry.\n\nThe declaration page is the document a quote gets built from. A number produced\nfrom memory usually comes in lower because it is built on a different deductible\nor a lower liability limit.\n\nIt may be missing an endorsement, or in Ontario have no direct compensation\ncoverage at all. Only a page-by-page comparison shows that two quotes cover\nidentical ground.\n\nBinding the new policy before cancelling the old one keeps the effective date on\nthe day the old policy expires and leaves no gap in coverage.\n\nShort-Rate Cancellation Charges\nCancelling an Ontario auto policy partway through a term, at the insured’s\nrequest, is generally handled short rate\n[https://www.irmi.com/term/insurance-definitions/short-rate-cancellation]. The\nstatutory conditions in the Ontario Automobile Policy permit the insurer to\napply a short-rate table, under which it retains more than the portion of the\nterm that has been used. Some policies also set a minimum retained premium, so\nthe refund on a cancellation in month five comes out smaller than the unused\nmonths would suggest. Cancelling on the renewal date costs nothing. A better\nnumber found in month five is still there in month twelve. Taken at the expiry\ndate, it leaves the short-rate charge out of the calculation.","html":"<p><em><strong>Disclaimer: </strong>This article is for general informational purposes only and does not constitute financial, insurance, legal, tax, or professional advice. Always review your policy documents carefully and consider speaking with a qualified insurance broker, adviser, or legal professional before changing, cancelling, or reducing coverage.</em></p><p>The renewal package arrives about a month before the policy expires: a few folded pages listing coverages most households have not read since the day they bought the car. The address has not changed, and nobody has made a claim. The car is a year older, and the premium has gone up anyway. The renewal window is the one point in the year when the whole policy is in front of the household.</p><h2 id=\"raising-your-deductible\"><strong>Raising Your Deductible</strong></h2><p>Start with the declaration page, the summary sheet that gives every coverage on the policy its own deductible and its own annual price. Beside each line, the page prints what that coverage costs today. Each figure in that column is what <a href=\"https://www.rbcinsurance.com/en-ca/advice-learning/car-insurance/how-to-calculate-car-insurance-premium/\">how to calculate insurance for a car</a> produces for one coverage, and the premium at the foot of the page is their sum.</p><p>Everything that follows is a change to one line on that page.</p><h3 id=\"the-three-deductibles-on-an-ontario-policy\"><strong>The Three Deductibles on an Ontario Policy</strong></h3><p>A policy does not have one deductible. In Ontario, it has three, listed separately on the declaration page.</p><ul><li>Collision, for damage the driver is responsible for</li><li>Comprehensive, for hail, theft, fire, and vandalism</li><li>Direct compensation for property damage, for damage another driver caused</li></ul><p>Each can be set at its own amount, and moving one leaves the other two exactly where they were.</p><p>All three attach to the physical damage side of the policy. Third-party liability and accident benefits have no deductible.</p><p>Because those two sections account for a substantial share of an Ontario premium, a discount quoted off collision and comprehensive is a percentage of a slice. A deductible that moves further from a lower starting point produces a larger reduction, though how much larger has no reliable Canadian figure behind it.</p><p>A driver who raises the collision deductible takes on more of the cost of a crash they were responsible for, and care at the wheel affects how often that bill arrives. Raising the comprehensive deductible means covering more of a hailstorm or a break-in. Nothing about how a person drives changes how often hail falls on a parked car.</p><h3 id=\"mid-term-deductible-changes-and-the-pro-rata-credit\"><strong>Mid-Term Deductible Changes and the Pro-Rata Credit</strong></h3><p>The change is processed as an endorsement to the existing policy, and no new policy is written. The coverage continues uninterrupted.</p><p>The premium is recalculated from the effective date of the change. A driver eight months into a twelve-month term captures roughly a third of the annual saving as a credit against the remaining instalments. A policy-change fee applies at some insurers and comes off the credit before the refund is calculated. A change made in month two produces several times the credit of the same change made in month eleven, and near the end of a term the fee can exceed the refund.</p><p>An amended declaration page arrives in the following days, printing the new deductible against the collision line and the recalculated premium for the balance of the term.</p><h2 id=\"dropping-collision-on-an-older-car\"><strong>Dropping Collision on an Older Car</strong></h2><p>Collision coverage pays to repair or replace a vehicle after a crash the driver is responsible for. The insurer’s obligation is capped at the vehicle’s actual cash value at the time of loss, less the deductible.</p><h3 id=\"collision-premium-against-the-car-s-value\"><strong>Collision Premium Against the Car’s Value</strong></h3><p>The annual collision premium is already on the declaration page. A realistic private-sale value for the vehicle today, minus the deductible, gives the most that coverage can ever pay out. The premium is the annual price of that possibility.</p><p>Canadian vehicles <a href=\"https://www.theglobeandmail.com/drive/mobility/article-do-new-cars-really-depreciate-by-30-per-cent-when-you-drive-them-off/\">lose value quickly</a> through the middle years of ownership, with cumulative depreciation well past half by the end of the fifth year. A decision made three years ago was made against a different number on both sides of the comparison.</p><p>The arithmetic assumes a household that can replace the car out of savings. Where the vehicle has to be back on the road within a week of a total loss and there is no cash to do it, the coverage is still paying out on a car worth very little. Dropping it moves that replacement cost onto the household.</p><h3 id=\"what-opting-out-of-direct-compensation-removes\"><strong>What Opting Out of Direct Compensation Removes</strong></h3><p>Direct compensation for property damage is the Ontario coverage that pays for damage to a policyholder’s own vehicle when another driver is at fault. Since 1 January 2024, Ontario policyholders have been able to opt out of it by adding an endorsement numbered OPCF 49.</p><p>Brokers across the province advise that the endorsement also strips collision and upset coverage along with all perils. The endorsement wording itself is silent on the point, so that caution rests on broker practice alone. Those coverages cannot be added back while the endorsement stands.</p><p>The coverage given up responds when the crash was another driver’s doing. Leaving direct compensation in place keeps that protection on the policy at the price already quoted, and a household that removes it pays its own repair cost on days it was not at fault. The endorsement stays until the term ends.</p><h2 id=\"annual-kilometres-and-what-the-car-is-used-for\"><strong>Annual Kilometres and What the Car Is Used For</strong></h2><p>The application asks for the vehicle’s use class and its estimated annual kilometres, both of them certified by the driver who signs it.</p><p>Annual kilometres means every kilometre the car travels in a year, with the commute only the starting point.</p><p>Double the one-way distance and multiply it by the number of days a week the trip happens, then multiply that figure by the working weeks in the year. Add everything the car does outside the commute, from the weekend errands to the long trips. The number the insurer rates is the household’s own total.</p><h3 id=\"when-driving-less-lowers-the-price\"><strong>When Driving Less Lowers the Price</strong></h3><p>Distance is rated in bands. Moving from 20,000 km to 14,000 km moves a driver into a different band and changes the price. Trimming a few hundred kilometres off an estimate changes nothing and leaves a number on the policy that is now wrong in the other direction.</p><p><a href=\"https://theconversation.com/telecommuting-can-reduce-congestion-but-might-create-other-traffic-problems-164212\">A move to telecommuting</a> and the other changes that cut a household’s driving rarely prompt a phone call to the insurer.</p><ul><li>a job change</li><li>retirement</li><li>a second car arriving in the household</li><li>a child moving out</li><li>a move closer to work</li></ul><p>The premium does not move until the insurer is told.</p><p>A car that goes to work every morning belongs in the commute class no matter how low the total kilometres are. Pleasure use allows some commuting, with the permitted amount differing from one insurer to the next.</p><p>Understating the number puts inaccurate <a href=\"https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2016/04/05/404343.htm\">information on the application</a>, which is misrepresentation and can affect a claim. Most wrong figures are stale estimates given years ago and never revisited. Once the call is made, the amendment re-rates the same way a deductible change does.</p><h2 id=\"shopping-before-your-renewal-date\"><strong>Shopping Before Your Renewal Date</strong></h2><p>No two insurers price one driver alike, because each one is working from its own claims experience across its own book of policyholders. A company that absorbed a costly year passes those losses through at renewal to everyone it insures. Two insurers can be a few hundred dollars apart on the same driver and the same coverage for that reason alone.</p><p>Renewal pricing is finalized roughly one to two months out, which is where Canadian guidance gets its window of 30 to 60 days before the expiry date. Starting inside that window leaves time to gather quotes without deciding in a hurry.</p><p>The declaration page is the document a quote gets built from. A number produced from memory usually comes in lower because it is built on a different deductible or a lower liability limit.</p><p>It may be missing an endorsement, or in Ontario have no direct compensation coverage at all. Only a page-by-page comparison shows that two quotes cover identical ground.</p><p>Binding the new policy before cancelling the old one keeps the effective date on the day the old policy expires and leaves no gap in coverage.</p><h3 id=\"short-rate-cancellation-charges\"><strong>Short-Rate Cancellation Charges</strong></h3><p>Cancelling an Ontario auto policy partway through a term, at the insured’s request, is generally <a href=\"https://www.irmi.com/term/insurance-definitions/short-rate-cancellation\">handled short rate</a>. The statutory conditions in the Ontario Automobile Policy permit the insurer to apply a short-rate table, under which it retains more than the portion of the term that has been used. Some policies also set a minimum retained premium, so the refund on a cancellation in month five comes out smaller than the unused months would suggest. Cancelling on the renewal date costs nothing. A better number found in month five is still there in month twelve. Taken at the expiry date, it leaves the short-rate charge out of the calculation.</p>","url":"https://admin.thinksaveretire.com/how-to-reduce-your-vehicle-insurance-costs/","uuid":"b636163d-a47f-42ee-b736-c61ce643da84","page":null,"codeinjection_foot":null,"codeinjection_head":null,"codeinjection_styles":null,"comment_id":"6aa2d98e8478e50001eb1318"},"allGhostAuthor":{"edges":[{"node":{"name":"Vanessa Zimin","slug":"vanessa","bio":"Vanessa Zimin writes about practical ways to earn more, build credit, and grow income outside a 9-to-5. She specializes in side hustles backed by real platform data.","profile_image":"https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/thinksaveretire.com/content/images/2025/01/Headshot-Photo.jpg","postCount":89}},{"node":{"name":"Tim Yelchaninov","slug":"tim","bio":"CEO at True Finance, Husband, and Father to three beautiful daughters. 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Her blog, <a href=\"https://www.makingcoinscount.com/%EF%BB%BF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" aria-label=\"Making Coins Count, (opens in a new tab)\">Making Coins Count,</a> empowers others to save, invest and grow their net worth using the same simple strategies that have allowed her to travel the world full-time and become financially independent.</em>","slug":"cindy"}},{"node":{"bio":"","slug":"kyle"}},{"node":{"bio":"","slug":"kevin"}},{"node":{"bio":"<em>I’m M @ <a href=\"https://radicalfire.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Radical FIRE</a>, a 24-year-old financial consultant that is passionate about the Financial Independence and Retire Early (FI/RE) movement. I want to empower YOU to be Financially Independent, if you want it you can achieve it! I am taking you on my journey to be Financially Independent by 35, let’s do it!</em>","slug":"m"}},{"node":{"bio":"","slug":"whitney"}},{"node":{"bio":"","slug":"michael-perrone"}},{"node":{"bio":"","slug":"fred"}},{"node":{"bio":"Penny is an educator in her early thirties who lives in the ‘burbs of a big Midwestern city with my husband and baby and writes on her blog at <a href=\"https://shepicksuppennies.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">She Picks Up Pennies</a>. In three years, they paid down over $85,000 worth of debt on two teachers’ salaries, thanks to some serious savings and extra side hustling.","slug":"penny"}},{"node":{"bio":"","slug":"danielle"}},{"node":{"bio":"","slug":"nathan"}},{"node":{"bio":"<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cameron Huddleston is an award-winning financial journalist with more than 17 years of experience writing about personal finance. She also is the author of </span></i><a href=\"https://cameronhuddleston.com/mom-and-dad-we-need-to-talk/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mom and Dad, We Need to Talk: How to Have Essential Conversations With Your Parents About Their Finances</span></i></a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. </span>","slug":"cameron"}},{"node":{"bio":"","slug":"robin"}},{"node":{"bio":"<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Julie, or “J”, is a 30-year-old tech professional who lives in Seattle, WA with her husband and dog. She loves anything outdoors, side hustling, and talking to interesting people on the path to financial independence on her podcast, <a href=\"https://firedrillpodcast.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fire Drill</a>. She is the creator of the Side Course where she teaches people how to build passive income streams with Etsy printables, blogging, and freelancing.</span></i>","slug":"julie"}},{"node":{"bio":"Dr. Jeff uses his personal six-figure debt experience he had to inspire other doctor and high-income professionals. He focuses on debt-free living and financial freedom at <a href=\"https://www.debtfreedr.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Debt Free Dr</a>.","slug":"jeff"}},{"node":{"bio":"Mr. The Poor Swiss is the main author behind thepoorswiss.com. In 2017, he realized that he was spending more and more every year, falling into the trap of lifestyle inflation. He decided to cut on his expenses and increase his income. This blog is relating <a href=\"https://thepoorswiss.com/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his story and findings</a>. In 2018, he saved more than 40% of his income. He made it a goal to reach Financial Independence. You can <a href=\"https://thepoorswiss.com/contact/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">send Mr. The Poor Swiss a message here</a>.","slug":"poor"}},{"node":{"bio":"","slug":"patricia"}},{"node":{"bio":"Molly Barnes is a full-time digital nomad, exploring and working remotely in different cities in the US. She and her boyfriend Jacob created the website <a href=\"http://digitalnomadlife.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Digital Nomad Life</a> to share their journey and help others to pursue a nomadic lifestyle.","slug":"molly"}},{"node":{"bio":"John and his wife run <a href=\"https://www.howtofire.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How To FIRE</a> where they work to educate others, provide valuable resources and share our own journey towards FIRE. Their mission is to pursue passions outside of a 9-to-5 and without a worry about money!","slug":"john"}},{"node":{"bio":"Peter writes about achieving financial independence through career-hacking, online side-hustles, and super-saving. In the last 2 years using these techniques, the <a href=\"https://countingeverydollar.com/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https://www.google.com/url?q=https://countingeverydollar.com/about/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1564139744383000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFWN8-n7PEM8pff_6Oa8c9RS1lk6g\">Counting Every Dollar family</a> has doubled their income, increased net worth by over $200,000 and reached an 85% savings rate!","slug":"peter"}},{"node":{"bio":"<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-460dc410-7fff-ba14-2737-e17aad8b7733\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;font-family: Arial;vertical-align: baseline\">Ingrid took early retirement from software engineering at 43 to pursue her passions for language learning and travel. Her goal is to learn a new language to fluency every two years. Currently, she speaks English, German, and Spanish, and is learning Portuguese. </span></span>\r\n\r\n<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-460dc410-7fff-ba14-2737-e17aad8b7733\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;font-family: Arial;vertical-align: baseline\">Find out more at her blog </span><a href=\"https://www.secondhalftravels.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;font-family: Arial;color: #1155cc;vertical-align: baseline\">Second-Half Travels</span></a><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;font-family: Arial;vertical-align: baseline\">, or follow along on </span><a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/secondhalftravels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;font-family: Arial;color: #1155cc;vertical-align: baseline\">Facebook</span></a><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;font-family: Arial;vertical-align: baseline\">.</span></span>","slug":"ingrid"}},{"node":{"bio":"Chris is a financial blogger who loves to be transparent about money-related issues. He’s paid off massive amounts of credit card debt and is the blog author of <a href=\"https://www.moneystir.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Money Stir</a>. His main focus on Money Stir is talking about how money relates to our relationships, personal development, and how to plan for the future we want. He’s been quoted on Market Watch, The Ladders, and other publications.","slug":"chris-roane-money-stir"}},{"node":{"bio":"<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Enoch Omololu</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is a veterinarian by day and a personal finance blogger by night at <a href=\"https://www.savvynewcanadians.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Savvy New Canadians</a>. He has a master’s degree in finance and investment management and his writing has been featured in the Toronto Star, Financial Post, MSN Money, Nest Wealth, The Motley Fool, Rockstar Finance and many other personal finance publications.</span></i>","slug":"enoch"}},{"node":{"bio":"Justin Song is a Product Manager at <a href=\"https://www.valuepenguin.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.valuepenguin.com/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1563967229362000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEoYVUlnc5ToD_fEpv6rw7wZQoAjg\">ValuePenguin</a>, a consumer research site, covering the small business and loans vertical. Before joining ValuePenguin he was a Senior Consultant at IBM. Justin graduated from New York University with a B.A. in Economics—in his free time he loves using credit card rewards to travel.","slug":"justin"}},{"node":{"bio":"Andrew is a personal finance aficionado who helps others take control of their finances and learn to build generational wealth at his blog, <a href=\"https://wealthynickel.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https://www.google.com/url?q=https://wealthynickel.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1564314341647000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFTciQ7uqgr3Mgp-DDuMfD5mLu69w\">Wealthy Nickel</a>. With a Bachelors degree in Engineering and a Masters in Economics, he is a numbers geek through and through. Andrew has a unique story of building wealth outside his day job through real estate investing, and teaches others to do the same. Andrew’s real estate background, along with growing up enjoying the benefits of his family’s timeshare, gives him a balanced view of the industry to help others make the best decision with their own timeshare.","slug":"andrew"}},{"node":{"bio":"<a href=\"https://financialwolves.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Financial Wolves</span></a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is a blog focused on helping you make more money to achieve financial freedom. After repaying student loans, I’ve shifted my focus to make more money from side hustles, real estate, freelancing and the online economy. Follow us on </span><a href=\"https://twitter.com/financialwolves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Twitter</span></a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and </span><a href=\"https://facebook.com/financialwolves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Facebook</span></a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. </span>","slug":"financial"}},{"node":{"bio":"Drew writes about maximizing career success, especially for introverts, on <a href=\"https://www.fiintrovert.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FI Introvert</a>. He believes that we can realize at least 80% of the benefits of early retirement by working in HIFI positions – high income, high freedom, and high impact. Through brute force savings and a strong stock market, he and his wife have amassed nearly $1M in invested assets in four years. More importantly, he has a job he loves that allows him to work from home, direct 80% of his time, and see his son during the day.","slug":"drew"}},{"node":{"bio":"","slug":"lana"}},{"node":{"bio":"","slug":"adthrive"}},{"node":{"bio":"Melissa loves content, comedy, and all things West Coast. She is grateful to wake up every day with the chance to bring stories from unlikely sources to life and enable others to design and live the life of their dreams. She is an aspiring #RichGrandma but until then she's happy living in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and rescue cat.","slug":"melissa"}},{"node":{"bio":"Shelly is a writer based in Washington. Since coming out of early retirement from being a volunteer wildlife refuge caretaker in her early 20's, Shelly has written for newspapers, worked in corporate comms and served as comms director for political campaigns. With AI taking over, now seems like the perfect time to bring her writing skills to the FIRE movement.","slug":"shelly"}},{"node":{"bio":"","slug":"think"}},{"node":{"bio":"","slug":"paul"}}]}},"pageContext":{"slug":"how-to-reduce-your-vehicle-insurance-costs"}}}