Over time in a relationship, you start sharing significant costs. Rent or a mortgage, power and gas bills, food, holidays… the list grows as your lives become more entwined. At some point most couples will think about getting a joint bank account. You might do it...
Relationship breakdowns can be devastating emotionally, as anyone who’s been through it knows. Then, just when you’re at your most fragile and vulnerable, you have to deal with unravelling your finances. This is where we learn that 1÷2 ≠ 0.5, even though we wish it...
‘I want this one.’ My 2.5-year-old daughter was pointing to a plastic stool with Winnie the Pooh on the front of it. Price: $14. Next to it was an identical stool – same size, shape, colour, everything – but instead of Winnie the Pooh, it had a grey star and ‘I’m a...
By Lacey Filipich, BEng(Hons), MAICD My parents fought about money. It’s the main reason they divorced. I can’t conceive of them sharing a household budget so in retrospect it’s not surprising. To put it bluntly: Dad spends, Mum saves. You’d think they’d balance each...
By Lacey Filipich, BEng(Hons), MAICD There aren’t many industries in which you can make a pile of cash without formal qualifications, but mining is definitely one. The lure of a six-figure salary is often enough to overcome our hesitation at being away from our...
In this extreme social experiment we call parenting, choices abound. From contentious issues like vaccination, to comparatively trivial ones like when to cut your child’s hair for the first time, we are bombarded opinions on what and what not to do, often in no...
