Psychology of Money

How to get yourself an inheritance (short of murder)

The stage is set. It’s a closed house, out in the country. No one can come in, no one can come out. There’s your wealthy aunt / adopted grandmother / old schoolteacher and you’ve tried worming your way into her affections, only to be confronted with scorn and disdain. You know she’s going to change [...]

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Girl Finance – Do gender specific books help?

Apparently nice girls don’t get rich. This is interesting. Not because I’m a nice girl (I could line up a whole heap of witnesses that would attest to the last statement) but because apparently there is a demographic of the population who are nice girls, and who don’t get rich because of it.

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The finance pages – why they tell me nothing

Reading the finance pages for me is a bit like watching the stocks go across the bottom of the screen during the Channel Seven news. I know it matters to someone, and probably should matter to me. But in no way do I understand what’s going on. The business section is something I use to [...]

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If time equals money, how can you get more?

It is the motto of our era. ‘If only I had more time’. It resonates from the halls, walls and byways, as we bustle about our day to day, always feeling like we could do so much more if we just had a little more time. But is it any wonder we feel as if [...]

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Personalities of Australian Money Savers

I wish the word ‘fit’ would stop being applied to so many aspects of my life. I could almost handle the bit where I had to be physically fit. That doesn’t necessarily mean I make any wholehearted attempt to pull on the sweats and pound the footpath, but I understand it’s part of my life [...]

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Things To Tell Yourself To Keep Saving Money

Let me guess. You’re over this new age stuff about mantras and chanting and being the change you want to see in the world. You don’t want to find self-fulfillment at the bottom of another wheatgrass shot, or wedged between the tofu fritters on your plate. But you do want to start saving money and [...]

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