Savings Guide – Daily Saving Money Tips

Reader profile: We speak with Esther Keenan, reader of Savings Guide – mum to three little ones and an ambitious savings plan to become debt free.

We talk with one of our readers, Jennifer Nolan. We ask her all kinds of questions in the hope of shedding some insights into other money savers so you can learn what others do with their money.

Pay off your University debts before Jan 2012 to get a full 10% discount. After this date, the discount goes down to 5%.

The love of money is the root of all evil. That’s all well and good, but the reality is, whether or not I love it, I still need it for my day to day. Yes, I could remove myself from society, find my own Walden Pond and take myself off the grid. But short of that, what place does money have in our lives and how we can we resist the urge to believe it will solve all our problems

You’ve been doing so well. You’ve stuck to your monthly budgets, have started to see some savings goals being achieved, and all of a sudden you start to slip. You buy a couple of things, or have a month where you don’t save much at all. Like achieving any long-term strategy, plateaus happen. Here are some tips on how to maintain the enthusiasm.

I know what you’re thinking- if you were a billionaire, you could afford to be ‘frugal’ too. After all, what does that even mean if you make thousands of dollars a minute? It remains oddly inconsistent, however, that many of the world’s billionaires live simple, non-expensive existences. Maybe it’s a factor in their enduring wealth. Here are some tips, inspired by Yahoo! Finance.