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SyB stumbled upon a young mum with two toddlers and a large mortgage. Her job is to find out about everything that the banks are less keen for you to know and to tell you ALL about it!
Monthly Archives: April 2011
Tips For Teaching Your Child How to Budget Part Six of Saving Money For Your Kids
Below is a list of tips we’ve compiled that offer suggestions for teaching your kids about money and how to use it to their advantage. If you can know of anymore please let us know! Get your kids to write … Continue reading
Posted in Account Management, Bank Fees, Bank Information, Budgeting Advice, Personal Finance, Saving Money For Your Kids, Teaching Your Children About Money, Tips on Saving, Understanding Banks
Tagged accountant, ANZ, bank loyalty, banks, BankWest, budget, budgeting, CBA, children's savings accounts, Commonwealth Bank, comparing banks, credit card, earning interest, interest, NAB, pocket money, shopping, spank, SyB, tax, term deposit, trust fund, WBC, Westpac
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Teaching Your Child How to Budget and Save Part Five of Saving Money For Your Kids
I have two boys and, as you know, a huge mortgage that I can barely keep up with. Despite this mortgage, Hubby and I were very keen to try and set up some sort of savings plan for our children … Continue reading
Posted in Account Management, Bank Fees, Bank Information, Budgeting Advice, Personal Finance, Saving Money For Your Kids, Teaching Your Children About Money, Tips on Saving, Understanding Banks
Tagged ANZ, BankWest, bankwest bonus saver, Bankwest Children's account, CBA, commbank, Commonwealth Bank, extra mortgage repayments, home loan, NAB, National Australia Bank, principal and interest, spank your bank, SyB, WBC, Westpac
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The legal stuff (Trust Funds, Tax and other Tedium) Part Four of Saving Money For Your Kids
If only the banking part of this business was the end of the complicatedness of all of this. Unfortunately, it’s not. You also need to think about whether the money you are saving for your child goes into an account … Continue reading
Posted in Account Management, Bank Fees, Bank Information, Budgeting Advice, Personal Finance, Saving Money For Your Kids, Teaching Your Children About Money, Tips on Saving, Understanding Banks
Tagged ato and kids, budgeting for kids, ensuring my child's future, is it ok for my child to earn money, pocket money, should i get a trust fund for my child, tax for kids, tfn for your child, what do I do about my child's income, what is a trust fund, when do I need to get a tfn for my child
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A Comparison of Children’s Savings Accounts Part Three of Saving Money For Your Kids
There is absolutely no point saving money for your child if you are not going to teach them about how to use it (link to other post). For this reason alone, it is a good idea to have a children’s … Continue reading
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Tagged ANZ, bank, bank fees, banks, BankWest, bankwest bonus saver, budget, CBA, children's tax on income, children's tax on interest, Commonwealth Bank, comparing savings accounts, home loan, home loans, how to teach your kids about money, interest, NAB, National Australia Bank, pocket money, saving money for your kids, spank, SyB, tax, teach your kids about money, WBC, Westpac
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The best method of saving (term deposit, savings account, offset account etc) Part Two of Saving Money For Your Kids
Because there is SOOOOOO much to think about and because no one has time to think about everything anymore, I’ve summarised all of the information I could find on banking options for your child and put it into the one … Continue reading
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Tagged bank comparison, BankWest, bankwest bonus saver, cba commonwealth bank, children's savings accounts, commbank, extra mortgage repayment calculator, extra mortgage repayments, how to save, interest, interest rates, investing for your child, NAB, National Australia Bank, offset account, personal funds management, saving money, savings accounts, Sliding Doors, teaching your kids about budgeting, term deposits, trust funds, WBC, Westpac
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Saving Money For Your Kids – Part One
One would think that saving some money for one’s kids would be one of the easier things in life. And if one were just putting one’s money into a piggy bank, one would be right. But, when one can use … Continue reading
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Tagged ANZ, banks, budget, budgeting, CBA, Comm Bank, commbank, Commonwealth Bank, how do you save money for your children, interest, mortgage, mortgage advice, NAB, National Australia Bank, principal and interest, saving money for your kids, spank, SyB, WBC, Westpac
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Simple Savings Hint Of The Week
Simple savings is one of my favourite websites. In their weekly newsletter they include a “Hint of the Week”. The one below (from the September 2010 issue) is one of my all time favourites. I’ve tried it out and found it’s … Continue reading
Just discovered this one – GE Money 28 Degrees Mastercard part Three
Hubby’s additional card holder card arrived in the mail on Friday. GE actually sent it out pretty quickly. It took so long for us to receive it because it took Hubby forever to get to the post office to be … Continue reading
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Tagged 28 degrees credit card, additional card holder, credit card, credit card situation, credit cards, customer relations, customer service, ge, ge money, spank, spank your bank, SyB
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