Savings Guide – Daily Saving Money Tips

There’s always a good reason for your first credit card. You’re heading overseas, and want an emergency back up. You’ve just gotten your first job. You’re making a big purchase and want to pay it off slowly. Everyone else has one.

You’ve just gotten your first job out of school and university, and for the first time you can afford cocktails at your local bar. The handbag you’ve always wanted is somehow now within reach, and the improvements you wanted to make to your car (i.e. a subwolfer) are a possible dream. So, you go and [...]

Financial stress is not an uncommon phenomenon. Whether it’s your credit card debt, mortgage, the state of your retirement account or how you are going to afford Christmas presents this year, there are a lot of financial triggers that can affect you. And they, in turn, affect your work. Cindy Krishner Goodman, with the Kansas [...]

It’s that time again. I love my maxims, my little mottos for personal finance success. They’re not always the silver bullet, but there are worse rules to live by than the ones contained below.

It was a phenomenon that Australia was lucky to see only rarely- the ghost towns of houses that people just had to leave, unable to pay their mortgage and unable to sell it on. Here in Australia, we were spared the tragedy of foreclosure but its effect in America is hard to comprehend from over [...]

Happiness is hard to come by. It sneaks up on us when we’re least expecting it, and the moment you notice it, it’s gone. You’ll be quite calmly sitting on your back porch, watching the sun set and realise you’re feeling indisputably happy. Then off it flees again.