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Tips for planning a group holiday that doesn’t destroy all your friendships

Andre Wessels — Fri, 29 Nov 2019 06:47:05 +0000

Travelling with your friends seems like the most fun idea ever. But group trips are also riddled with potential money landmines. One friend’s idea of lunch is a three course meal at the top-rated restaurant in town. Another insists you all walk the whole way across the city to save R20 on a train fare. You [...]

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Why is it so hard to live together?

Sarah Helpkin — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 09:06:06 +0000

Living with another human, even one you love deeply and would like to keep living with forever, can be really hard. The worst part is that it’s not just hard in the big, dramatic, interesting ways you can sit down and talk about. It’s also the small, niggly things that make you sound so petty [...]

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The five money conversations to have before moving in together

Sarah Helpkin — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 14:39:28 +0000

What can you do to ensure that money doesn’t mess with the living, or the loving. So you are thinking about moving in. You’re in love and can’t spend enough time together, the relationship feels ready to go to the next level and since you are together every night anyway, why not save on [...]

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Becoming a one car couple

Sarah Helpkin — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 14:37:58 +0000

The two car family is on the decline. From Boulder, Colorado to Cape Town, South Africa the number of couples thinking about and experimenting with the one-car thing is increasing. But it’s tricky right? How does it work? Who gets the car and what happens when you both need to be somewhere? One car. Two [...]

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Friends with money. Friends without money.

Sarah Helpkin — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 14:36:33 +0000

How real people manage real money with real friends The awkward money episode at Season 2 of Friends: The One with Five Steaks and an Eggplant. Remember that scene in Friends where they are in a restaurant and have a super awkward money conversation when it comes to paying the bill because the friends [...]

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Kids and money – big dreams and bigger lessons

Sarah Helpkin — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 14:34:58 +0000

When is the right time to start saving for a motorbike? (Thank you to Photo by Ümit Yıldırım on Unsplash for the image) By Sean O’Connor I’m the proud father of a five-year-old. He’s probably at ‘peak boy’ right now. Girls are simply ridiculous, the colour pink wraps him in giggles, and he’s an [...]

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Straight outta beta

kin — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 11:48:34 +0000

The extended Kin team 23 July 2019 Kin, the app, came out of beta today. The app aims to improve people’s relationships with money and each other. The first iteration of the product does this in a very focused way and helps you very practically to plan, split and share expenses. As the [...]

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