All in Personal Finance
This week I sat down and took a bit of an ‘end of year’ look at how 2018 has been financially for our household. I don’t do this on a set date each year, I just felt interested this week so I checked it out. Being the over-sharer that I am I thought you may also be interested?
I met Pete when he dropped me an email telling me he had found my podcast and “burned through both seasons”. Pete and his family have plenty of time to do this because they have currently taken a year away from New Zealand to hang out in Vietnam. In this guest blog post, Pete explains it’s extremely doable and incredibly worthwhile. Take it away Pete…
I have fielded the question “why don’t you buy a Lifestyle Property?” more times than I can count. I actually have this cracking rural lifestyle on 900m² because I live at the end of short cul de sac in town. I could have bought a 10 acre plot on the outskirts of town but I would be stretching myself financially (and physically) to do it.
At age 44 it feels like a bit of a milestone, to finally turn my back on ANY access to credit and lending of any kind. I seriously feel a bit like a grown up now and I’m kicking another Australian owned bank to the curb and chopping up my credit card.
I received an email in August from a woman who finds herself moving on from a 20 year marriage. She is discovering the freedom of now going it alone, but the journey is certainly not an easy one.
I had a catch up with Martin Hawes recently and I could not have been more delighted. Having the opportunity to talk about money related topics is my kind of way to spend a Friday morning…
Today I thought I would tackle one of YOUR questions head on. It’s housing related, a topic that is constantly being talked about in New Zealand and one that I generally try to avoid. So here goes…
I’ve been hearing from a few of you because you have been opening up your KiwiSaver account statements at this time of the year. And there have been a few unexpected surprises in there.
Sharesies have just celebrated their first birthday and up until this point I have resisted having a play around with their product. But I figure that they are still here after a year, the social media fan party has faded away and yet they still keep coming up in conversation.
