Travel In 2010
4 / 01 - Category: Blog
Happy New Year!  Many of us have started back at work today, with others returning in a week or so.  So, what better time than now to staart thinking about your next holiday! Chances are that you will travel somewhere in 2010. Maybe it’s a trip interstate to v..
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Tags: Budget setup budget Budgeting money management holiday finances Travel Travel Budget 

Happy (Nearly) New Year! What's Your Resolution?
23 / 12 - Category: Blog
Good grief.  2010 is literally but a few sleeps away.  And that can only mean one thing: it’s New Year’s Resolution time.  Ah yes, it’s that time of year when we close our eyes, cross our fingers and make bold and grandiose statements about what we will be gain..
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Tags: Budget Budgeting money management saving New Year Resolution 

All The Single Ladies
8 / 12 - Category: Blog
“Question: tell me what you think about me, I buy my own diamonds and I buy my own rings…” Answer: we’d be suitably impressed! Come on, you’d have to agree that there’s nothing more desirable than independence, particularly when it’s of the financial v..
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Tags: Shopping Budget setup budget Budgeting spending money management women woman ladies lady finance finances money financial independence 

All I Want For Christmas
27 / 11 - Category: Blog
Pop quiz:  have you ever received a Christmas gift you didn’t like, want or need? Chances are that you’ve answered a resounding ‘Yes!’  Not surprising really, as according to a recent survey,   nearly 72 per cent of people regularly receive a Christmas gift..
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Tags: Budget Budgeting Christmas Christmas Budget 

It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas...
20 / 11 - Category: Blog
I walked into the city a couple of weeks ago and to my surprise I was surrounded by Christmas! Trees, decorations, and “buy now for Christmas” signs. “That can’t be right can it? Christmas is ages away” I thought to myself.  Are you nodding? Well guess ..
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Tags: Budget setup budget Budgeting money management Christmas Save for Christmas Christmas Budget 

New home, new budgeting habits
13 / 11 - Category: Blog
Our next guest blog  is from ANZ MoneyManager Challenger Leah, who has recently taken the plunge in home ownership with her partner and knew it was time to get on top of her spending. Enter ANZ MoneyManager…    I have recently bought my first house with my boyf..
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Tags: Budgeting money management moneymanager challenge user stories new home 

New mum Ebony takes the MM challenge
26 / 10 - Category: Blog
Remember our ANZ MoneyManager Challenge? Well here is the first blog from our participants - Ebony Caldicott - who became a mum for the first time and has felt the pinch with the additional costs involved. Ebony tells us about her four week experience using ANZ MoneyMan..
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Tags: Budgeting money management moneymanager challenge user stories starting a family new mum saving 

The ANZ MoneyManager Challenge
14 / 10 - Category: Blog
We’ve talked about how much we were spending on certain items and decided that it would be great to learn more about how others use ANZ MoneyManager and how they spend their money...commence the ANZ MoneyManager Challenge! Over a four week period we asked each of o..
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Tags: Budgeting spending money management moneymanager challenge user stories planning