A (Financial) Christmas Carol
It’s the time of year when you’ll often see or hear parts of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and the story of his ghosts of Christmas past, present and future. It’s a story that could easily be adapted to your financial life, so let’s see how each of these “ghosts” can help you create a […]
It’s the time of year when you’ll often see or hear parts of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and the story of his ghosts of Christmas past, present and future. It’s a story that could easily be adapted to your financial life, so let’s see how each of these “ghosts” can help you create a […]
As we get late into the year, we know Santa’s been busy in his workshop for months preparing for Christmas Eve. To do his job well he needs to be super organised! Perhaps we should all be a bit more like Santa when it comes to Christmas. For most of us mere mortals, Christmas is […]
It’s about now that we start to think, “where did the year go?”. Melbourne Cup is out of the way and shortly we’ll all be entering the countdown to Christmas. (Is it just me, or did the decorations start going up very, very early this year?) Now is a good time to reflect on your […]
No doubt National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation will be on TV at some stage over Christmas. It’s a classic that most people have seen numerous times. I was thinking about poor Clark Griswold and how many of his problems seem to relate to money. Clark is a devoted family man who works hard to earn an […]
We’re about to enter the most wonderful time of the year! It’s a time of year when we usually have lots of fun, but also feel quite a bit of pressure. We all want to provide the best Christmas for our loved ones. We splurge, we impulse buy, we buy little extras here and there […]
Fast forward a few short months and it will be! You may have been to a Christmas in July party this month. Well, we’re past the half way mark of the year and we’re now on the downhill run to the real thing. Christmas is usually a joyous time of year. Sadly though, for many […]
Christmas is coming and you probably know someone who is really hard to buy a present for. You might be tempted to buy them a gift voucher. Can we suggest you think again? Unfortunately, gift vouchers are generally a really bad idea. We know, we know – we sound like the Grinch. But let us […]