Savings Guide – Daily Saving Money Tips

Wedding bells are ringing, the sun is shining and stress will probably be your closest companion for the next ten months. Getting married is a wonderful thing (I should know, I’ve seen 27 Dresses), but unless you’re the next Zen master, it’s also deeply stressful.
Think about the stress of inviting people to your birthday party [...]

I vacillate when it comes to bad credit. I’ve never really checked, but I assume my credit is appalling considering I have never been able to pay it off by the end of the month and have since cut the damn thing up.

Ah, the grocery store. Both a haven and a money sink. One of life’s necessities, yet designed to make you spend money. Ever noticed how the store brands are on the lower shelf, away from eye line and ease of access? It’s not because the staff enjoy bending down to stack the shelves, but to [...]

Rags to riches stories are sometimes all that sustain me. Listening to the tightened-belt, day-by-day attitudes espoused by people who did it right and made it big, helps me when I’m confronting a new pair of delightful peep-toe blue shoes and trying to walk away. Of course, all fairytales are exceptions, not the rule. Yet, [...]

Sitting on the young side of things, I can’t imagine how anyone can bring money into relationships. I argue with myself enough about money, I really can’t think how I could add someone else into that equation (although it might improve the funny looks I get on the street mid-argument).

I tend to be blasé about my things. I leave my handbag in the most ridiculous of places, I don’t think too hard about covering my pin when I EFPOS at the supermarket and I log onto my Netbank on the train when I’m bored. I know there are a lot of people like who [...]