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[21 May 2010 | No Comment | ]

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Featured, Money Game »

[14 May 2010 | No Comment | ]

Remember the incidents when we thought that we had bought the best offer in the market, the cheapest, only to find out that the other shop is selling much cheaper. We can avoid repeating this mistake by doing market price survey prior to buying (paying). The easiest, time-savvy method is by undertaking Tactical Procurement process online. It helps us to determine what is the average and the lowest market prices for the items that we are buying. HardwareZone.com facilitates this process.

Featured, Financial Literacy »

[26 Apr 2010 | No Comment | ]
Saving? She rather spends!

This is a real-life story of a lady who prefers spending her money now than saving for future. Her brother tells her to invest her extra money but she don’t think so. She has other plans – buy, buy, buy. And bye, bye money!

Featured, Money Game »

[16 Apr 2010 | 2 Comments | ]
Good Business Story for Children: ‘The Elves and the Shoemaker’

Amazing! It is wonderful to know that we could teach children about running a business by reading them a simple children’s story such as ‘The Elves and the Shoemaker.’ Yes, the story is not all about the elves and the shoemaker but more, it is also about running a business. Read on to know what you could learn from a simple children’s shoemaking story. Story telling to children would never be the same again because your bedtime story time is a business class session!

Featured, Money Game »

[9 Apr 2010 | No Comment | ]
Play smart, live smart

Believe it or not, playing computer games could give us benefits. We could learn so many things from the games if we set our mind to learn while playing. The key to reap benefits from playing game is: do not simply play but play with strategy i.e. bring your calculator along and calculate, and write down notes and draft plans. So, the next time you see your children playing computer games, ask them what they’ve learn and could apply in real life.

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[12 Mar 2010 | 2 Comments | ]
Project Runaway: beautiful dress at material cost

Read how my wife and I had successfully reduced clothing expenses. By reducing the dress’s cost per piece, we are able to buy more dresses (for her) and/or reallocate the extra to other needs or saving. But most importantly, by making this cost saving a family project, we bond our relationship. This ‘Project Runaway’, we called it, is also good for creative minds.

Featured, Money Game »

[19 Feb 2010 | 6 Comments | ]
Turn your mutual fund’s switch ON and OFF

If you do invest in mutual fund (a.k.a. unit trust), do you aware of ‘switch’? If you don’t aware of it, then you have missed a lot of opportunities to generate more money from your mutual fund investment. As the wise saying, “Smart investors win in both good times and bad times.” ‘Switch’ offer that opportunity to win in both good times and bad times.

Featured, Money Math »

[12 Feb 2010 | 2 Comments | ]
Do not simply throw away your telco bills

Do you study your telco bills, or you simply throw them into the dustbin? Your telco bills not only tell you how much you need to pay (that is why you hate bills) but also record your calls, and summarises your SMSes sent. How to use this information to your advantage?

IanKree.com's EditorIan Kree is a Malaysian personal financial blogger based in Kuching, Sarawak. His interests are online asset, property, mutual fund and stock market investment; personal financial planning; and cost engineering. In professional field, he leads a 1380-strong group of professional cost engineers in LinkedIn. More about him »