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More Articles Sylvia has a weekly column in the newspaper called Money Talk. You can read recent articles by clicking on the title links in the left hand menu. Enjoy and if you have any questions please contact us.
Lets face it, you are not going to bother to learn about money if you can’t see the relevance of how it affects your life or family’s life, now or in the future.
Think about this! Forty three percent of people aged 18-24 have a negative net worth..................click to read more
Stay away from “dumb debt”
There are two types of debt. Smart debt and dumb debt. Smart debt is when you borrow for something which generally goes up in value and dumb debt is when you borrow for something which goes down in value...............More
As a parent you will most probably be in two categories. Either in a mess yourself financially so you feel you are not qualified to teach your child about money or you manage your finances efficiently but don’t quite know how to pass those skills on to your child.
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Talk to your child about money. Learn some new ways of thinking about money yourself. Change the cultural taboo that has existed for generations of not talking about money. In order to change the generational fear of talking about money, you need to retrain yourself and train your children that money is simply a tool – Read More
Many adults sign contracts without fully understanding them or reading them thoroughly.
It’s important when you are asked to sign a contract that you take the time to read it and know exactly what you are signing. Many times people are told “just sign here” only to find out later that if they had read it and understood it fully they would not have signed it. Read More
Many kids are told to save their money but no one tells them why. Adults don’t think about it much either but the reality is we should all be aware of why we save and how we can get the most out of our savings. Read More
You can learn to be more financially intelligent and teach your family the same skills by teaching them to read between the lines of some advertisements. Read through and discuss with your family the following advertisement taken word for word from a website and I have added in brackets how I would read “between the lines” the same advertisement.
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