Economical money tip #9
Helping you get your head around money, these tips are thrifty in size: 50 words or less for financial literacy!
Save money by stopping smoking
Two schools of thought here: 1) stop smoking, save the money you’d been spending on cigarettes and put it towards your wealth fund. 2) keep smoking and die early. [...]
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Written By: Teen Money Expert Stuart Fleming on July 30, 2009
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Written By: Teen Money Expert Stuart Fleming on July 25, 2009
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Economical money tip #5
Helping you get your head around money, these tips are thrifty in size: 50 words or less for financial literacy!
The missing money search
You know where money hides - coins roll out of pockets onto couches and slide under seats in cars. Check behind the sofa cushions, in pockets of clothes not worn [...]
Written By: Teen Money Expert Stuart Fleming on July 21, 2009
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Economical money tip #1
Helping you get your head around money, these tips are thrifty in size: 50 words or less for financial literacy!
Money in a coin jar
Throw your loose change at the end of each day into a jar on your dresser. You’ll be surprised how quickly it fills. Resist spending it! Instead, deposit it [...]
Written By: Teen Money Expert Stuart Fleming on July 15, 2009
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Money survey results are in
Mothers take the award for ‘Most Influential Money Role-Model’ amongst the respondents of our recent survey for 12-29 year-olds, receiving a quarter of the vote.
Fathers were close behind with 21%, just ahead of friends (16%) and family members (14%).
Interesting, not one person selected ‘teacher’.
Additional feedback on role-models included:
“I don’t have an [...]
Written By: Teen Money Expert Stuart Fleming on July 8, 2009
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“Our son is hopeless at managing money and I fear he’s going to just spend his loan and overdraft and we’ll end up having to bail him out.” Concerned parent.
Saving money and still my parents worry
…according to Ashley Stasher
My bank account is growing all the time. Saving money comes naturally to me. My parents [...]
Written By: Teen Money Expert Stuart Fleming on July 2, 2009
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Money can wind up in a teen’s pocket in a number of ways…
Hiya! Ashley here, going first (thank goodness) because I get to share the two most obvious ways money flows in to my bank account:
#1: an allowance / pocket money
I like this one. As I’ve shared before this is ‘money for nothing’ for me [...]
Written By: Teen Money Expert Stuart Fleming on July 2, 2009
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Should parents give their children an allowance?
This is what Ashley had to say:
The money my parents give me sure does help my bank balance grow! Ever since I started getting regular pocket-money when I was five years old, I’ve never spent more than half each week, putting the rest in my piggy-bank, and then my [...]
Written By: Teen Money Expert Stuart Fleming on July 2, 2009
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There’s one simple way to keep a cap on how much money you spend on your cell-phone, Mike… use the ‘pre-pay‘ option!
I’ve allocated myself a fixed amount each week to top-up my phone, and once that’s gone I don’t make any calls or send any messages until the next week.
Sure, it frustrates some of my [...]
Written By: Teen Money Expert Stuart Fleming on July 1, 2009
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How to pay for university?
That’s easy Pat! If you start saving now, you’re bound to have enough put aside to cover your expenses.
If I were you, I would find part-time work for after school or the weekends and keep that money separate. In no time at all it will become a sizable amount and you’ll [...]
Written By: Teen Money Expert Stuart Fleming on July 1, 2009
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That’s quite the budget blow-out in just one weekend, Spike! Surely you must have realised you were spending so much?
You spent $63 just on food. I know it’s convenient to grab a bite at the mall, but the foodcourt meals are expensive and not particularly nutritional. Why didn’t you eat something at your friend’s place [...]
