Savings Guide Australia

The Christmas decorations are down. You’ve hopefully recovered from your hangover, and are starting to think about how best to lose those unwanted but well-deserved extra kilos from the apple sauce on Christmas. Working has reared its ugly head. You’re back on the bandwagon in a big way.
So, one week on from New Years, have [...]

With New Year’s celebrations out of the way, it is now time to start looking at the year ahead. So what better way to do so, then by looking back at what 2009 meant for me and learning from some of my mistakes!
Below are the five things I purchased in 2009 that are probably not [...]

For a lot of Australians, overtime is the norm. Australian’s work over 2 billion hours of unpaid work every year. For some, it’s a necessity to get the job done well, for others an expected part of work if you want to see a promotion any time in the next ten years. It’s not unusual [...]

I find this a hard article to write, as I feel this is one instance where I will have to choose between two men I love; Ken Henry and Ross Garnuat. On a normal day, if you asked me to choose between the two, I couldn’t. But today, debating the real effect the GFC has [...]

Fitness First has quickly become the number one gym in Australia, with more locations and better facilities then many of the other gym franchises.
Each month we get a number of emails asking about ways to save money on Fitness First memberships, as everyone seems to have a close friend who pays nearly half of what [...]

Your credit card limit play a large role in determining how much money you can borrow come time to apply for a mortgage, did you know that?
Regardless of how much debt you have accumulated on the cards, the banks will still hinder your borrowing power based on the fact that you total credit card limits [...]