Savings Guide – Daily Saving Money Tips

As I write this, I must admit to being absolutely starved. Instead of getting off the couch and moving to my fridge, which I estimate the whole of five metres away, I would prefer to sit here in hunger and revel in my laziness.
The same goes for paying my phone bills, calling friends I haven’t [...]

The last year of school has to be one of the more trying experiences in a young life and, what with the pressures of HSC and the hideousness of adolescence; it can be one of the more trying experiences of a parent’s life too.

The Wall Street Journal runs a sensational column online by Stephen Kreider Yoder and his two sons. This week they were talking about the differences between teenage boys and girl, particularly their approach to money (thank goodness, the other discussion is endless). I seem to remember my feelings in high school being general disbelief that [...]

I was sitting in a café the other day and everything was normal. I had a cold beer in my hand, wedges on the way and a friend to chew the fat with. Suddenly, the usual gossip fat-eating turned into a conversation about home ownership and how it was the next thing my friend was [...]

What would you buy, if money were no object? A yacht? A summer house by the sea? A diamond encrusted ring for your beloved?
Now think bigger.

Parents bewail them, grandparents remember them and children appear to not have any of them. Manners. When confronted with a small army of cutlery at a fancy restaurant, what knife should you use? What wine glass for which wine? And should men open doors for women, or is that a faux par? Manners and etiquette [...]