Savings Guide – Daily Saving Money Tips

I don’t know if your friend’s are like this, but mine are obsessed with fancy dress parties. Over the past few years, I’ve been a panda, a groupie and a fairy. There was one rather awkward occasion where attendees had to dress as the host. Unfortunately the host had rather poor taste in clothes, and [...]

We all know the Seinfeld episode where George gets so sick of people donating money as a Christmas gift, he creates his own charity- the Human Fund- and so manages to avoid getting anyone a Christmas present. Inevitably it all goes wrong (after all, this is Seinfeld, not Friends) but it’s easy to empathise with [...]

My parent never let me trick or treat. It was a point of serious contention every October. My parents hated the Americanisation of Australian culture and I wanted to hang out with my friends and possibly stock up on candy into the bargain. They still get a shock every year when people turn up and [...]

As the Flight of the Conchords famously sang, ‘who likes to rock the party? I like to rock the party’. We all like to rock the party, but it has the tendency to test our relationship with our savings account to the limit. You can curse, you can wheedle, but the simple fact of the [...]

Dating is a funny sport, surrounded with rituals of courtship and fine dining, or in simple terms; a nightmare for someone who is trying to save money. That just made me sound cheap, I have to apologise for that – but I like to see it more as a romantic spirit within me that sees [...]

Do you dream of having a perfect wedding that still adheres to your wedding budget? It may seem impossible, but with some smart thinking and educated planning, you will be able to have a beautiful wedding that is not expensive. I hate using the word cheap, but if you were to cut down your expenses [...]