Questions
Saturday, 7 March 2015 - 11:24
Hubby and myself are seriously thinking of changing our occupation, house, basically everything. We currently live 45 mins away from any family or friends are always stressed due to being self employed and just basically over life. If we won lotto tomorrow we would take 6 mths off life. Hubby has...
Thursday, 5 March 2015 - 14:35
hi mums My husband works for a small company. I have a couple of young kids. One being a newborn. My husband has always been working locally and home everynight which suits us fine because he sees our kids and we refuse to be a mining fifo family by choice. My husbands work has started to be out of...
Wednesday, 4 March 2015 - 14:13
We have recently moved yet again for my husbands work, this destination (Sunshine Coast, Qld) however, was my choice, and I love it. What I'm really struggling with is finding work! I have applied for countless jobs in my field of experience (reception/customer service) with not even so much as an...
Tuesday, 3 March 2015 - 17:06
Hi IM's! Got a non parenting question (or rather need ideas)... In April my two sons (ages 6 and 9) plus myself are doing a 5km fun run to raise money for Alzheimer's Australia (my grand mother suffers from dementia). I want my boys to do this fun run to learn that life is not all about taking and...
Monday, 2 March 2015 - 18:16
My partner is moving in with me soon. I have 3 children and my family payment will reduce by $100 per week. My budget is tight and that's a lot to me. He has no kids. What's a fair split for finances? We don't want a joint account.
Sunday, 1 March 2015 - 09:31
Hi IM's, My partner and I are hoping to buy our first home this year, we know how much we are wanting to borrow and how much we can afford in repayments, we were also planing on having a $20,000 deposit for about a $300,000 loan. Im hoping i can get some helpful advice on mistakes not to make and...
Saturday, 28 February 2015 - 10:05
Hi IMs and IDs, Hoping to get some advice, and some direction down the right path. Last night, my husband opened up to me about how he is feeling. I knew something had been off for the last couple of months, but with everything going on I thought he was just going through a stressful time. We are a...
Friday, 27 February 2015 - 07:34
I am a single mum with 3 children and currently dating a man who earns 42,000/pa. I have looked at the online centrelink calculator and it says I will end up with $62 per fortnight of parenting payment or Austudy (I'm currently a student). Does anyone know if this is correct, and will I also get to...
Sunday, 22 February 2015 - 14:52
Hi all, what salary would you say is reasonable for a family to live on? My husband and I are looking at starting a family and me staying home until they are school aged. We currently earn 170k between us and can save quite a bit of that at the moment. However if I stay home once we have children...
Saturday, 21 February 2015 - 19:28
Hi, I've just broken up with my partner and dad of 2 kids. I don't know what to do from here! I need a house, and child support and 100% custody (his job means he won't go for custody, so it should be an easy process) So... Where do I start? I want to start this asap, as I don't want to live with...