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Please check out my mums work she does for the community Auckland wide, based out west Auckland. She is looking for more donations if you have any household items no longer wanted please feel free to contact her or myself. Check her out on the above link.
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Hi There,
I an looking on behalf of my Mum for a Mobile Hairdresser to do Shampoo and Set as she can no longer do this owing to mobility issues with her hands.
She lives in Henderson, West Auckland.
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Ian.
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I posted the following comment on an article on Stuff - let's see if it gets swept under the metaphorical carpet again:
"The traditional elite have been cut down to size" is as bad as writing "The upstarts have been put in their place" - I enjoy the Women's Football… View moreI posted the following comment on an article on Stuff - let's see if it gets swept under the metaphorical carpet again:
"The traditional elite have been cut down to size" is as bad as writing "The upstarts have been put in their place" - I enjoy the Women's Football World Cup very much, I enjoy the supposedly smaller footballing nations upsetting "the usual order" as much as anyone, and I MOST enjoy the fair play and consideration by some players (eg how the UK's Chloe Kelly consoled the Nigerian goal keeper instead of celebrating her winning penalty) and spectators (eg the Japanese cleaning up after themselves after each game, and others following suit) and I can say with conviction: there is no place for such spiteful reporting!
I'm VERY disappointed in Stuff. Shame on that reporter - and the editor for letting it through.
see www.stuff.co.nz...
With changes to Australia's citizenship process, many are moving to Oz for better wages and lower taxes. Have you considered moving down under or are you fiercely kiwi?
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Greenview Park boasts a panoramic view of the Glengarry ridgeline and is set amidst tranquil, landscaped gardens. With indoor and outdoor facilities as well as planned group activities, you’ll find it easy… View moreLive life blissfully in a safe community where we provide comfort, security and freedom.
Greenview Park boasts a panoramic view of the Glengarry ridgeline and is set amidst tranquil, landscaped gardens. With indoor and outdoor facilities as well as planned group activities, you’ll find it easy to make friends! Here at Greenview Park Village, we’ve created a homely environment designed with you in mind.
With a total of 72 homes on-site, we have 15 apartments, 16 one-bedroom homes, and 41 two-bedroom villas, all including optional services. Terence Kennedy House is our on-site hospital providing holistic care to residents.
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Custom Mechanics book, 95 pages, printed 1989 but still very informative and useful if you have a V8 street machine.
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Auckland Council's 21 Local Boards have come up with a three-year plan outlining key initiatives we want to focus on in your communities. Help us check if we’ve got it right! Submissions must be received by 4pm Monday 14 August.
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It’s your place. Your … View moreAuckland Council's 21 Local Boards have come up with a three-year plan outlining key initiatives we want to focus on in your communities. Help us check if we’ve got it right! Submissions must be received by 4pm Monday 14 August.
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Back in the 1970s and ‘80s, you didn’t learn if your parents didn’t teach you or you weren’t tenacious.
Findings from the third stage of Massey University’s Financial Education and Research Centre show young New Zealanders are growing in their financial capability, although young men are… View moreBack in the 1970s and ‘80s, you didn’t learn if your parents didn’t teach you or you weren’t tenacious.
Findings from the third stage of Massey University’s Financial Education and Research Centre show young New Zealanders are growing in their financial capability, although young men are doing better than young women.
The study found life experience has replaced parents as the primary source of financial information.
Whether you’re 13, 30, or any other age, Money Month is a great time to get started on personal financial skills, or to brush up on them. Just don’t fall for the ‘poor me’ mentality. You have to want to learn, and here are some tools.
Educational websites
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Many websites and YouTube channels offer free resources and courses on financial literacy. You don’t need to be at school to use the Sortedinschools.org.nz resources, which include a range of diverse topics from “what is cryptocurrency” to “building a tiny house”.
Another New Zealand-based resource is Banqer, which has opened up its Virtual Economy Experience to adults for Money Month. Get in fast. The offer is limited to 1000 adults.
You’ll also find numerous YouTube channels dedicated to personal finance. A good local channel is MoneyHub New Zealand. Most personal finance concepts transcend borders, and there are plenty of overseas ones as well, such as The Ramsey Show. International education resources such as Investopedia or the Khan Academy’s personal finance and financial literacy sections are very good.
Personal finance tools and apps
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For some people, jumping in there and just doing it is the way to learn. Tools ranging from money personality profilers to simple-to-use budgets and much in between can help with learning how to manage money while actually doing it. Sorted.org.nz has web-based tools that enable you to write a budget and more. There are multiple mobile apps for tracking expenses, setting budgets and saving money. New Zealand-based apps such as PocketSmith are very good. Some overseas ones such as Spendee and Fudget work here. Spendee, like PocketSmith, can download your bank transactions automatically. MyBudgetPal from Booster also does that. It is New Zealand-based and free. But at the time of writing, Booster was working on fixing tech problems.
Books
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They’re old tech, but books are still popular with young people. Bookshops are seeing a revival in this demographic. My colleague Frances Cook’s books Tales From A Financial Mess and the more recent Your Money, Your Future are good places to start. Frances made mistakes young and had to teach herself about money. She understands what digging yourself out of a financial hole looks like. The Barefoot Investor by Australian Scott Pape has a huge following among younger people. Another international book focused very much on coming of age in personal finance is Why Didn’t They Teach Me This in School? by Cary Siegel. It teaches eight important money lessons. The other book I should mention is The Sharesies Guide to Investing by Brooke and Leighton Roberts and Sonya Williams. The only reason I hesitate is that it’s important to learn to “walk”, i.e. grasp basic financial tasks, before “running”, which I define as investing beyond KiwiSaver.
Financial simulations and games
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Gamification is a great way to learn. Both Sortedinschools.org.nz and Banqer offer personal finance games. If you are interested in learning about investing, then trading games, simulators and demo accounts are helpful. They allow you to lose virtual money rather than the real stuff. Investopedia and MarketWatch offer virtual portfolios that follow the actual markets, so you can watch what would have happened if you had been investing your own money instead of virtual funds. If you must dive in, then you can tinker on sites such as Sharesies with a few dollars at a time. But please don’t assume you’re going to be better at this than the experts. Sooner or later, markets fall and new investors get burned.
Finally, young people learn by making mistakes. The tools above can help, but sometimes getting it wrong is the only thing that gets through. I know it’s hard, but try not to save them when they do something dumb like spending their rent on UberEats. Or if they’ve crashed the car, make sure they pay off every last cent of that $1000 insurance excess. No matter how long it takes them. Hopefully, they won’t do that again.
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