This week on Money Diaries,a graduate speech pathologist spends on some hot yoga classes and vodka,lime and sodas.
In a few weeks,everybody will have a fatter pay packet because the tax rates are changing. Smart money managers will put the extra to good use.
Today,I give you an RBA-inspired budgetary boot camp to help you squeeze every penny from your finances.
The truth is,I wouldn’t wish an inheritance on anyone,but as generations get older,it’s a tough conversation many of us are having.
Common finance advice seems to suggest saving money should be a slog,whereas the opposite is actually true.
In Money Diaries this week,a Melbourne-based product designer binges Bridgerton and watches The Notebook for the first time.
Twenty years ago,I was still writing about rampant interest rates and booming property prices. But much has changed.
You are welcome to debate me,but I believe no one stretches money like a solo parent. Here’s the best tips I’ve heard.
Have you found yourself saying “yes” to something a friend has suggested,even though you couldn’t really afford it? This one’s for you.
On this week’s Money Diary,our diarist has recently dropped her phone and the touchscreen no longer works,so she makes do with a mouse and voice-to-text.
Somehow,we’ve associated ‘clever’,needlessly complex behaviours with accruing wealth. But there’s a big problem with this narrative.