Savings Guide – Daily Saving Money Tips

It certainly was the season to be jolly. It’s interesting to look back on the savings measures I suggested before Christmas, and to see how easy it is to get caught up in spending money. The new year is often a time to replace the catchcry of frivolity with a mantra of frugality, to throw [...]

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, [...]

I’m pretty confident that almost everyone at some point in their lives, no matter how dire their current financial situation has made an effort in the direction of creating a budget (even if only to think about it!). For that matter, there are almost as many theories out there about how best to budget as [...]

This is the first part of a three post series written by a fantastic writer called Sam Robinson. Be sure to look at the ways in which you can read more of her writing at the bottom of this article, we love her writing and think you will also! Budgeting, saving, investing, superannuation contributions… they’re [...]

Unless you had the good fortune of being born with a silver spoon in your mouth and more money that you could spend in a lifetime, you need a budget. You need a budget to serve as a guideline of how much you should be spending and send warning bells to your brain when you’re [...]

It has been a long time since we got this excited about the release of an online savings account in Australia, but ANZ has definitely re-invented the wheel and made a fantastic method of helping people save money with the release of Smarty Pig, an online savings account that makes saving money fun and social. [...]