I have been banging on to my sister for years about living within her means and one day the penny finally dropped. In this guest blog post she shares her story. Take it away Lizzy...
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Chocolate anyone?
The endorsement that the people of Dunedin and New Zealand gave a Dunedin chocolate maker this week shows that our interest in a company goes far deeper than simply mixing cacao and milk together.
What can I learn from retirees?
I had a chat with a retired couple recently and I was torn between being polite and not too nosey and outright wanting to ask them every nitty gritty detail about their lives. I settled on the middle ground but found myself left wanting.
Updates and Things of Interest
A bit of change this week! I’ve curated this post with a few updates and interesting things for you to check out.
Is Commercial Property Investment a good idea?
More people than I can count ask me whether I would buy a rental property, by which they mean a single house which I would rent out. Buying a slice of the commercial building rental market is a much more interesting proposition.
Progress Report on You Can Avoid Student Debt
In November 2016 I wrote about student debt and in that blog I spoke to a young woman who was about to begin a two and a half year course at a tertiary institution. Almost one year on I caught up with her for an update. She had just had a night on the turps so I fed her a high sugar, high fat breakfast as we spoke. Ok, so that part of being 18 still has not changed.
Explain that graph!
This week I had another email from a subscriber. When she is checking up on her investment what the heck do the charts and graphs mean?
The Happy Saver Top 10 Money Tips
Welcome to my shortest blog post ever! I have written a succinct list, using as few words as possible, that encapsulates the rules I live by in one way or another every single day.
CARS - I've had a few!
Read any PF blog, listen to any FI podcast and they will all tell you that buying a new car is a dumb idea, akin to getting some of your hard earned money out of the bank and putting a match to it. I learn a lot by reading but I also learn a lot by doing and to my shame I have first hand experience in buying brand new cars, because I’ve done it five times.