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stop your friends from breaking your budget

Socialising can be expensive if it means eating out a lot, drinks at the pub, concerts, shopping dates, coffees. If you’re wanting to reduce your social budget, here are four ways to save money without losing your friends.

help a reader: love, marriage and money

Can you help this reader? What are your tips for saving money on a wedding? What about dealing with money matters in a marriage?

the money talk

It’s that time of the year again. Time to draw up a new budget and decide on some goals for the coming year. DH and I recently sat down and had THE TALK. What our financial priorities will be for 2011. Dealing with stark financial realities is never fun. Budgeting and goal setting can be [...]

Do you know your neighbours?

Our neighbours moved out this week. They have been the best neighbours we’ve ever had. They were not drug dealers, or 3am loud music partiers, or V8 Ute revers, or a screaming domestic couple (yes, we’ve had them all). Instead they were a quiet couple about our age with a young son like us, who [...]

sharing financial responsibility in marriage

When one person takes on the responsibilities of the household budget, it is important for your spouse to know some key information about your finances should anything happen to you.

Love and Money

Are you frugal? Should you be on the lookout for a compatible and frugally like-minded partner when dating? And if so, how do you tell if you’re both on the same money wave length?