Welcome to the Beer O’Clock Brewing Sessions interview series. This series is designed to provide insight into the world of home brewing for beer loving frugal folk who want to save their pennies, but aren’t willing to give up beer to achieve financial freedom! The third interview in the series is with Adam from […]
Last year, my beloved and I embarked on our first home renovation adventure. As it was our first mission, we thought it apt to focus on something fairly straight forward. So, we decided to focus on our garage and laundry. Both of these areas were in desperate need of a face lift. The floors […]
When I was growing up, money wasn’t plentiful. Don’t get me wrong, we always had a roof over our heads and food on the table, but there wasn’t usually much more to spare. As an adult, my Mum told us that for quite a long period of time when we were young, she would […]
In January, I posted my New Years resolutions for 2018 in order to hold myself accountable for those resolutions for once in my life! As it is now well into the second half of the year, I thought it was time to check in and see just how well, or shit, I’m going with […]
This is a guest post written by Monika Gudova for Mozo.com.au. As “fun” as it may be, sometimes we all need a break from the world of walking-meetings and hot-desking, so when your bestie asks you to join her for a 14-day European vacay, you say yes – with bells on! That is […]
This week Industrial Relations action commenced against my employer regarding our latest Enterprise Bargaining Agreement (EBA). This was mostly due to the fact that my employer’s wage offer under this agreement was a 0% pay rise for the next 3 years. This is the first time in my employer’s history of offering no wage […]
In May 2013, my dearly beloved opened a credit card account with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. The primary point of this credit card was for “emergencies”. At the time, we didn’t have an emergency fund. In fact, we didn’t have any savings. So, it seemed logical, and rather responsible, to have some kind […]
This is a guest post written by Angela Pearse for zumper.com. Want to know how to move to a new house without getting stressed? Planning an event like this isn’t something you can just throw together at the last minute, there are a lot of different factors to take into account. If you don’t, […]
This post was written by Stacy Miller from kissyourmoney.com. Stacy’s blog aims to provide real-world advice, tips and tricks to make, spend and save extra money smartly. Conventional wisdom says that you should focus on paying back your creditors when you’re in debt, but is this really the case? When you’re in debt, saving […]
In early June, my beloved and I received letters from the Australian Government outlining that as we were now 31 we would be subject to the Medicare Levy Surcharge (MLS) and Lifetime Health Cover (LHC) from 1 July this year. This notification has two potential implications for us. Firstly, if our combined MLS assessable […]