I am staging a KiwiSaver INTERVENTION on myself! Today’s post is an excellent example of “no one looks after your money as well as you do”. I have to fix up my KiwiSaver account, but it’s OK, I’m trained in KiwiSaver First Aid!
All in KiwiSaver
Tracking every cent...
Tracking every cent makes me calculate each and every time whether we made a good decision with our money. Money is hard to earn and easy to spend so I want to know that I use it as wisely as possible and not look at my bank account and wonder where the hell it all went.
Getting Ahead Financially: Subscribers Tips and Tricks
Two weeks ago I was giving away a book The Simple Path To Wealth by JL Collins and in order to win it I asked you to send me an email telling me the most simple strategy you have devised so far to get yourself ahead financially. I was flooded with suggestions and I thought that they were just too good not to share.
How does a teenager create a strong financial future?
Olivia spent the school holidays working hard and she has found herself with that wonderful problem, too much cash sitting in the bank. In this blog post, I detail a strategy to show her how to make her hard earned money work for her and create a strong financial future for herself.
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.
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.
Maxed Out KiwiSaver
This will be the last year that we are going above and beyond with voluntary contributions to our KiwiSaver. I had been pushing up to $500 per month into both my husband and my funds but last week we reached my tipping point...
One Year of Blogging
Now, we Kiwi’s don’t like to self congratulate, it’s frowned upon. But stuff it, I’m going to… This week marks one year since I started this blog! Cripes, I can’t believe it has gone by so quick AND that I have managed to dream up something to discuss each week.
Becoming an Investor*
All your working life you are trying to increase your net worth so that when you finally stop working you start to slowly spend it to live on. If upon retirement each year you take 4% out of your pot of savings it will take about 30 years to boil the pot dry. So what can you live on a year? Do you need to invest $100K, $200 or $500K?