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How to Save Money on Groceries
Learning how to save money on groceries is pretty much the one area that almost everyone can get involved with. Everyone needs groceries, and if you have never looked into a budget before then chances...
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How to Save Money for a House
Your own house is possibly the most expensive asset most people will ever own, but before you will be able to own a house you will need to know how to save money for a house. After all, since the GFC...
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Saving money on fuel for the car
In Australia over the last few months petrol (that is what we call gas/fuel in Australia) has been getting super expensive. I personally have seen prices increase from a modest $1.15-$1.20 range up to...
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Appreciating the Value of Money
I have had a lot of conversations lately around the value of money and how your life situation tends to influence how you view money. As an example, my boss was speaking about his girlfriends children...
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Is Your Clutter Costing You Money?
I was watching a show on Sunday called Extreme Clutter, which is hosted by Peter Walsh (an Aussie living in the USA) and his job is to go around and help people who are either crazy hoarders or just...
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How getting married young saved us heaps of money
My wife and I got married about 5 and a half years ago when I was only 24 and my wife was only 22. Traditionally (I’m thinking about my parents generation) that is quite late to get married, however...
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Kids Toys and Saving Money on Batteries
If you have young kids then you will know that almost all of their favourite toys require batteries and batteries aren't cheap when you start to go through them every couple of weeks. We recently had a...
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Experiencing Life After Debt
Reflective post incoming -- It has recently come to my attention that if my wife and I sold all of our investments and pooled our savings accounts that we would be 100% debt free. I'm not going to lie,...
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Debt, Compound Interest and Home Ownership
Today I am partaking in The Gift of Debt Series, which is all about how Debt has changed your life for the better. Now most people don't think of debt as being a good thing, and in general I would...
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Last week a work colleague had an issue with his mobile phone where it kept rebooting itself every 3-4 seconds – obviously it was completely unusable and so he decided that he wanted to take it into...
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Saving Money an Extra Dollar at a Time
With a new year comes a heap of great new chances to save money, and being at the start of a new year I am going to share with you one of my favourite ways to help people save money.The idea is fairly...
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Getting the advertised price on products
OK, so I have a little story to tell you all today. Last week my wife went on a bit of a fan dusting/cleaning mission. Unfortunately one of our fans (the oldest one) didn't want to play the game and...
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Is It Worth the Money to get Solar Panels Installed?
Last weekend my wife and I were invited over to some friends house (our old next door neighbors) for breakfast to catch up. We were talking about a heap of different things, but when I asked if they...
View ArticleSaving $450 a Year
A while ago I wrote about how my wife and I do our grocery shopping online and how we really enjoy the experience, and how it saves us lots of time and effort. The only major downside that I could find...
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Changing your views on money and becoming financially literate
I'm sure that everyone knows someone that is struggling financially. It isn't fun, and for some reason money is often considered one of those taboo topics where no one really likes to admit there...
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Getting the most out of everyday items
Saving money is something that I take fairly seriously and part of my strategy for saving money is to get the most out of everyday items that I can. I just don't see why you should throw something...
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How To Save Money By Avoiding The “Convenience Premium”
Hi everyone, today I have a guest post from Richard from FrugalityMagazine.com. If you would like to guest post here, please drop me a line. Why do some people buy bags of pre-chopped vegetables from...
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Investigating Peer to Peer Loans for Borrowers and Investors
I love the concept of peer to peer loans and lending. Anything that reduces our reliance on the big banks, is definitely worth exploring further. So today I am going to go through the ins and outs of...
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Considerations when Getting a Personal Loan
I have been doing a lot of loan research lately, both for my recent peer to peer loans post that I wrote last week, as well as for a new mortgage that my wife and I are entering into to buy a new...
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5 Financial Tips for 30 Somethings
Your thirties is when your income really starts to take off – you’re over your first ‘entry level’ job roles and are now really starting to make your mark career and salary-wise. This is why it’s a...
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