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...you’d better not pout, I'm telling you why. With all your pre-holiday activities planned and budgeted for, it’s now time to turn your attention to the actual Christmas celebrations themselves. Rushing out to buy the gifts we want to give would be easy, but as my family keep reminding me...
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...you’d better not pout, I'm telling you why. Ok, you’d be forgiven if you did start pouting. The Christmas and New Year holiday season is fast on its way and as the warmer weather sets in the social activities kick into overdrive. From years gone by, I know that once...
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No need to wait… transfer your funds in near real time with Faster Payments through the New Payments Platform (NPP). The LLL is one of the first financial institutions in Australia to offer the NPP. It makes it faster and easier for people to transfer money between bank accounts online....
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In recent times, interest in miniature supermarket figurines has surged. Before your child loses interest in their novelty, how about turning the collectible craze into an educational game? Such as: grab a supermarket catalogue and let your child find the equivalent to the miniature product in the pages, and write...
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Living on a budget can sometimes mean looking for alternative ways of enjoying the things you love that would normally eat into your funds. A library for instance, can help you stay on budget with their no-cost resources and activities. It’s a great place to pick up interesting and creative...
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Oops! Back in high school I was excellent at setting up a study plan. But I don’t think I ever got myself to actually do the study according to the plan! I needed a different system, one that I would actually use … Maybe your budget is the same. Maybe...
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As I sit down to dinner in the evenings watching my ravenous pre-schoolers push their broccoli and peas around on the plate with their fork, refusing to eat and eventually letting them plop onto the table or even the floor. I wonder if my children really have an appreciation of...
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Do you have a savings goal? We all know we should save, but this is very difficult when we don’t have a specific goal, and things keep coming up. You know, the car breaks down, the kids need new school uniforms, there’s a great sale on wine... The important thing...
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What child doesn’t love playing with dirt? The lucky kids at St Paul’s Lutheran Child Care Centre (Nundah, Queensland) now have their very own Native Adventure Play Yard where they can play with dirt and plants every day. (In 2017 the LLL gifted a total of $105,000 to Lutheran Education...
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In order to either confirm or dispel myths about millennials and home ownership, we surveyed 22 millennials about their financial situation. This is part 5 of the series. This is part 5 of the series. To read parts 1, 2, 3 & 4 click here. Some respondents in our survey...
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In order to either confirm or dispel myths about millennials and home ownership, we surveyed 22 millennials about their financial situation. This is part 4 of the series. To read parts 1, 2 and 3 click here. Surprisingly, even though they pay on average $1960 a month towards their mortgage,...
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In order to either confirm or dispel myths about millennials and home ownership, we surveyed 22 millennials about their financial situation. This is part 3 of the series. To read parts 1 and 2, click here. The average monthly loan payments for our millennials is $1960, however they range from...
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In order to either confirm or dispel myths about millennials and home ownership, we surveyed 22 millennials about their financial situation. This is part 2 of the series. To read part 1, click here. When asked what they sacrificed in order to save for their deposit, some responses were: “’I’ve...
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Millennials are often given a bad name. Also referred to as Gen Y, this generation is often accused of being lazy, entitled, bad with money and basically the downfall of the human race. As a member of this generation, I feel these labels are tiresome and unrepresentative of most millennials...
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Have you ever been doing the tourist thing in a strange place, when a local improves your experience? On my first trip to Vienna, backpacking with friends, we were on a tram on the Ring Road around the inner city. A local chap spoke with us and found out it...
