Does the title ring a bell? Well for many this hits close to home. Going on a daily trip to the shops and returning home with nothing, you just can’t do it. Also window shopping or just picking something up and ...

This is one of the hardest but most satisfying achievements you will accomplish. Getting started is always the breaking point, and once you have passed your first six months it then becomes a habit. You start to feel g...

I’m 14 years old and like most teenage girls around my age I love shopping. Recently when I went clothes shopping I noticed a few simple things to watch out for. Firstly, before you go shopping you should have a...

My daughter has now left school and is working full time as a Beauty Therapist. When she started I thought, “Great”, both children working now, all my money worries are over! Boy, was I wrong! My son, being...

Video - Lots of times I have to deal with kids’ wants rather than their needs.  I tend to reason with them and get them to agree to a savings plan if the purchase is more a want than a need.  Here’s my stor...

I was talking to a friend the other day; he had just started a new job. He was now earning more and was working weekends to catch up on some of his debt. Mind you he earns three times the amount I do. I said to him,̶...

As my children get older and start escaping my clutches I can’t help but wonder where all that time has gone. One of my biggest regrets was not having a video camera to capture those funny moments when they were li...

My daughter, who turned 16 a few months ago, sat for her L’s test at the RTA and passed. So now we are in the process of learning to drive, 120 hours of driving for her and 120 hours of stress and nail-biting  for...

My children are just so casual when it comes to spending money. In one breath they can be so careful and budget wisely and in the next breath they can be so “easy come, easy go” with their money. It seems whe...

I don’t know, what do you think about those boom boxes in the cars of our teenagers today?  That thumping sound going on around your head! For those of you that don’t know what it is, it’s a speaker system that ac...