Savings Guide Australia

The council pick up is this week. To say my Mum is excited is a major understatement. She’s pumped. She’s prepared and she is ruthless. This week, under severe duress, I threw out half my childhood- starting with several fancy dress costumes. Fairy wings, old birthday cards and clothes I never wear were looked upon [...]

Fitness First has quickly become the number one gym in Australia, with more locations and better facilities then many of the other gym franchises.
Each month we get a number of emails asking about ways to save money on Fitness First memberships, as everyone seems to have a close friend who pays nearly half of what [...]

Summer is officially here. It’s hot, it’s sunny and the sky is a pretty shade of blue. I’ve officially out my winter clothes in an unattended drawer and can sigh with relief as I throw out my multitude of laddered stockings, vowing to start afresh next year.
Summer brings with it sarongs, thongs and (if you [...]

Luxuries are the first things to go when you start saving. Next thing you know, you have a sulky boyfriend who is not amused by your new hippie standards of grooming. You try and explain about how the superficial is less important than home ownership/ super/ a good credit card balance. But then you start [...]

I write in defence of clothes. Clothes make us feel happy. They make us feel good about ourselves. They give us a chance to express our personalities, and occasionally they do trivial things like keep us warm and stop us from inadvertently traumatising the neighbour’s five-year-old kid. They also tend to drain from your non-existent [...]

eBay can be a very useful way to get rid of junk laying around the house, supplement your income or pick up a bargain, however you need to be aware of the risks in buying and selling online. eBay has very good guides for purchasing certain goods and how-to guides for every transaction, so make [...]