If you’ve ever said the following out loud or in your head: “I am terrible with money.” “I spend too much.” “I don’t have control over my money.” “I just can’t seem to break the habit of <insert...
I grew up in the mainstream education system, attending the local public primary school and later a private high school, then onto one of the ‘sandstone’ universities. I didn’t encounter any homeschoolers growing up, so the whole concept seemed rather mysterious to...
If you’ve read anything about Money School, you’d know we wouldn’t be here without Fran, the mother half of the our mother-daughter team. Fran’s a bit shy. She’s more than happy to be in the background. Getting in front of a camera was a...
By Lacey Filipich BEng(Hons) MAICD NFP Gov (Cert) After six years of struggling to get my course on financial independence out of my head and into an easily digestible format for the masses, I’d had enough of ‘part-time entrepreneurism’. I decided I was taking our...
By Fran White There’s Death and Taxes and then there’s Money – another certainty of life is that money will have an impact on it. We Baby Boomers will have to manage money for more years than any prior generation as we outlive old life expectancies, and this includes...
Author’s note: This article on what it’s like to going bankrupt is one of our most widely read and shared. Probably because most commentary on bankruptcy is about the maths rather than the aspect this article covers – the emotional impact. At over 2,500 words...