Yahoo Finance 7 best money-saving stories from 2018
Whether it’s creating restricting budgets and stripping back your spending, improving credit card habits or simply avoiding impulse spending, saving money has been at the forefront of Australians’ minds this year.
Here, Yahoo Finance has put together the top seven money-saving tips we learnt in 2018.
Want to save more cash? Here are 3 habits to ditch right now: Not every budgeting tactic is going to work for every Aussie, but here are three easy ways you can cut back on your everyday costs to help you get started.
Here’s how to win the lottery, according to a Romanian-born mathematician who hacked the system, won 14 times, and retired on a remote, tropical island: Stefan Mandel, a Romanian-Australian economist, developed a formula that’s allowed him to win the lottery 14 times – It’s a six-step process designed to hack the system.
How a postal worker amassed a US$70m fortune: The way I see it, there are three things all Aussies require to give themselves a shot at retiring wealthy or early:
1. Spend less than we make
2. Invest the difference for the long-term
3. Avoid being whipped out
Your old video games could be worth serious cash: While the biggest game show of the year brought us plenty of new games to look forward to, they’re still months from hitting the market. For some gamers, though, the latest and greatest titles aren’t worth waiting for. Instead, they’re hunting through garage sales, flea markets, eBay and speciality stores for games that came out 20 years ago. And they’re willing to pay top dollar.
This slip-up is costing you $200: Summer has arrived, and for a lot of Australians this means hundreds of dollars spent on their air conditioning. However, you could be spending more than you need to.
How this woman turned her $97,000 debt into a 7-figure net worth by building a new habit into her day: Adeola Omole has learned a lot about managing money since climbing her way out of US$70,000 worth of debt. After losing her job at a law firm in Canada during a tough economy, Omole was faced with the debt she accumulated over the years from student loans, car loans, a line of credit, and credit cards. Here’s what she did next.
Half a million Aussies have a potential $20,000 sitting in their garage: With more and more Aussies choosing to camp under the stars for the holidays, caravan and RV owners are sitting on some serious extra cash if they choose to rent out their vehicle. Camping is undergoing a renaissance. The national number of overnight camping or caravan trips hit a record high of 12.3 million up to June 2018, according to research from Tourism Research Australia.
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