​The first mentions of Christmas are creeping into retail marketing, and for many Australians that signals unbridled spending and a January spent worrying how to pay-off the credit cards.

There are about 70 dress rental sites in Australia and some let you rent out your own clothing.

There is still time to make sure you finish the year well and are on a better financial footing to launch into 2018.

As we move away from payments in cash to technology-enabled transactions, other issues arise.

Buying and selling of preloved personal goods could be worth $43.5 billion a year and has grown by almost $4 billion over the past year.

Fred Liberatore believes that living a healthy lifestyle is better than any pill for not only living longer, but also living happier.

Financial expert Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon says becoming a rate tart is the only way to get decent interest on savings accounts, without meeting onerous conditions.

Financial expert Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon shares five ways to get the most out of private health insurance.

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We would be paying to stay in other people's homes in Paris and Rome - why not see if other people would pay to stay in ours in Melbourne?

iPhones sold in Australia have been getting dearer over the past few years compared with other countries, CommSec's iPhone index shows.

If you bought a new iPhone, there are better ways to insure it besides AppleCare.

Apple is a company that makes active money out of secrecy. The one detail we can be assured of is that the new iPhone models won't be cheap.

How to find any lazy money you're unwittingly letting leach out of your pocket courtesy of a bunch of legacy deals with once-good-value providers.

If you're struggling with mortgage payments, it's time to take action.

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Here are some sales tricks that have been used to push questionable insurance on consumers.

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The fastest growing group of homeless Australians are women over 55.

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There seems to be a inverse logic to buying drinks for your mates: the people who come under most pressure to take part in rounds are those that can least afford it.

Your daily micro-spend on the apparently delectable micro-grounds is keeping you in debt far longer than necessary.

There is a lot that is wrong with financial services. That said, many of us don't help ourselves, either.

For the Joyce family, one partner being assigned to a project in Wollongong, south of Sydney, set the wheels in motion for a sea change.

Build financial resilience and confidence to buffer yourself from the risk of homelessness.

Like many working parents I'm time poor, so my favourite savings tips are ones that save time as well as money.

In this week's episode of It All Adds Up the team shares their top finance tips.

Despite industry criticism, many Australians stand to benefit from the plans to use superannuation as a savings scheme for first home buyers.

By comparing the financial outcomes of their choices with those of their peers, Banqer facilitates learning from outcomes, not just theory.

If you suspect some sneaky Jedi mind tricks are beating your efforts to save, you're on the money.

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The Reserve Bank may have kept official interest rates unchanged for the past year, but it's a different story for people with savings in the bank.

Many Australian families are struggling because the price of education, healthcare and power continue to rise, and pay packets aren't keeping up.

Most money savings advice for Generation Y recommends living with your parents, but for many people that's not an option.