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The Biggest Surprises as a Working-from-Home-Mum
I’d always dreamed of being my own boss, naively thinking that working from home meant getting lots of work done while the baby slept, and having a spotless house with all that “extra time” I’d have. It wasn’t long after my first baby was born that reality hit me –...
Tips to Save Energy
It’s a little odd to say, but electricity is a big part of family life. When you think about it, how often do your family use electricity during the day? There’s lighting, electric showers, cookers, computers, televisions and air conditioning units to name but a few....
The Financial Literacy Test You Need to Pass
Literacy in at least one language, both spoken and written, is useful to anyone. However, this is not the only type of literacy you must be an expert on. You must also be very clever and crafty when it comes to managing and growing your finances in order to get ahead....
8 Ways Your Social Media Addiction is Good for Your Bottom Line
There’s a lot written about how social media can wreak havoc on your budget. There’s the argument that the time we spend has a financial cost in lost productivity elsewhere. Perhaps the most obvious example is the accessibility of shopping online and the constant...
We All Have a Financial Grade Sitting Up in the Cloud
Did you know well after leaving school and even university, we are being graded? Each and every one of us has a financial grade sitting up in the cloud just waiting to allow the sun- or in some cases- waiting to pour dark heavy rain down on your brand new home, car or...
9 Steps to a Financially Organised Life
Are you financially well organised? Financial organisation has different meanings for different people which is understandable given we all have different financial circumstances. For some of us, it might mean having a budget in place and ensuring we pay our bills on...
Escaping the Corporate Shackle
I’ve got a thing for financial freedom. I’ve read many books trying to find the best path to gain such “freedom”; to relieve myself from the corporate work shackle; to spend time doing what I love. Through the journey of finding a path, I got burnt in the share market...
The 7 Keys to Living a Fabulous Life
Today is R U Ok Day. So I’m asking R U Ok? If the answer is no, or you know someone who is not okay, keep reading. Sometimes the feelings can creep up on us, until WHAM, we wake up one day feeling like we have a concrete slab on our chest. Or sometimes we just feel...
5 Tips for the Most Frugal Mums
Make your printer work harder Printer ink is expensive! Did you know that you can save ink by switching from black to blue near the end of its run? Doing this will give you a few more runs before it signs off for good! Also, did you know Garamond font uses less ink...
5 Tips on Scoring the Best Travel Deals
Our Mum CFOs share their best tips to scoring the best travel deals around. Subscribe to as many of the travel deal websites as possible so you can be notified when deals are on and see when the best deals are coming up. When you're searching for travel deals, make...
