Helping South Africans save money

In the realm of home improvement and DIY projects, Gelmar has established itself as a premier destination for handles and cupboard fixtures. However, a lesser-known facet of their offerings is...

UPDATE: MARCH 2024 The latest scoop from the 2023/24 Loyalty Whitepaper by BrandMapp and Truth is in, and guess what? Checkers Xtra Savings has snagged the top spot for the...

f you’re looking for natural and cost-effective ways to clean your home, two ingredients that you should consider using are bicarbonate of soda and vinegar. These household staples are great...

If you are feeling the cost-of-living squeeze you might want to look to cut your biggest month expense – your home loan.  Most people will have a 20 year home...

Everything.insure is a first of it’s kind insurance platform in South Africa If you think of Naked insurance, everything.insure is like that except it has every type of insurance from...

Six Gun Grill has taken the market by storm – but there is a new challenger in the form of Robertsons Braai & Grill. Six Gun Grill has begun to...

Capitec have recently introduced their Bank Better Rewards Programme. They say they are aiming to return over R1 billion Rand in cash and savings to its customers in 2022. On...

There has been in big increase in the number of online insurance offerings lately – Naked, Granadilla, Pineapple… They are appealing to the people who hate dealing with brokers or...

UPDATE JULY 2022: Checkers and Shoprite and closing the Spin and Win part of Xtra Savings. You will have to claim all your vouchers by 12 August 2022. This means...

SA Home Loans are about to offer a home loan where the first 3 years are interest only. This means that it will be by far the lowest instalment in...

Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki is one of the first financial ‘self help’ book I ever read, and the lessons stay with me to this day. It helped...

Putting money away into savings each month is one of the hardest things to do, especially when inflation is always pushing your cost of living up. It requires enormous discipline...

South African households are highly indebted. On average 75% of the average household income goes to servicing debt, and this is expected to rise even further as interest rates are...

Margarine has become increasingly expensive lately because of how much the cost of sunflower and palm oil has gone up (which are the main ingredients in margarine). The combination of...

I have been following a TikTok account run by Justin Harrison where he tests the cost of running common household electrical appliances. Anything that heats up or cools down costs...

Hypermiling is all about increasing your car’s fuel economy to squeeze more kilometers out of a tank of fuel. It became very popular in the early 2000’s when the fuel...

Rising petrol and diesel prices are putting a major strain on all of us. One way to help alleviate the pain is to make use of any reward benefits you...

The tough economic situation is that many people are buying cheaper brands instead of their trusted favourites. As a result many of the big (higher priced) brands are forced to...

When big companies like KFC run competitions where you have to buy their product to enter you expect everything to be above board. Recently they ran a Golden Bucket competition...

Always be wary of loyalty schemes that charge you fees, like the UCount Reward programme. What you need to assess is whether you will get more value back than you...

In March 2021 Unilever relaunched Wuhu Deals with a completely new look and feel. It’s now a cash back site called Wuhu Rewards rather than a coupon site.  ***Update 23 June...

The all time highs of Bitcoin have got a lot of people wondering if this is going to continue and if they should buy some crypto currency or not. The...

The advantage of savings account is that you can put away that little bit of extra cash and be able to access it quite quickly if you need it. It...

Car insurance companies make most of their money off their customer’s reluctance to challenge annual rate increases. They are aggressive with their premium pricing to win your business, and then...

Many companies run competitions to promote their brands and get customers. You usually have a very small chance of winning, but there are a couple of techniques you can use...

Takeaway franchise owners focus a lot on what they term ‘food cost’, and this often drives the selling price of the meal. In other words, if the cost of the...

Tiendeo is a great app / website that allows you to scan all the store broadsheets for specials – click here for www.tiendeo.co.za or download their app.  In this way you...

We as consumers pay a premium to buy our hardware from retail stores such as Builders Warehouse or Game. When you are buying a small amount of something, the convenience...

If you fly domestically FlySafair is far-and-away the cheapest (and best) airline to fly with. And no, this is not a paid advert, but based on personal experience across all...

Reward programmes have become very popular in South Africa as people try to save money, with claims that 4 out of 5 people belong to at least one of these...

There is some confusion about whether South Africans can buy from Amazon. The short answer is ‘yes you can’ (with some exceptions), and this can be a way for you...

It is very hard to keep track of lots of small, daily expenses to see what they cost you in total in a month. If you were to spend R3000...

If you’ve had your home loan for a long time, chances are that you are paying too much on your compulsory building insurance. The reason is that the insurance company...

Appliances are generally quite expensive, so it’s worth doing a bit of homework on prices before heading out to the shops to buy. This practice is becoming so commonplace that...

Rain has recently come into the market with a lot of buzz about their cheap pricing, but some are saying they are quite expensive compared to other offerings. As a...

Every time you turn an electric appliance on it is burning money. A decade ago we had some of the cheapest electricity in the world and we could keep the...

Makro have a rewards programme called M Rewards, which at face value seem to offer very generous cash backs on big ticket items. They say their key selling point is...

Bricks and mortar fashion outlets, like Edgars and Woolworths, tend to have a few sales as year to clear out end of season stock. Online stores like Spree, Zando and...

There are 3 broad areas you should look at when making equity (i.e. stock market) investments : returns, costs and tax. Some investments with tax advantages are a no-brainer, because...

Before the financial crisis of 2007 the switching of home loans for a better rate was quite common. SA Home Loans pioneered the concept of securitized home loans which enabled...

Hippo have done a great job over the years advertising the fact that they scour the market to bring you the best deals. While they undoubtedly provide a valuable service,...

Groceries are a big expense in most households, but are very difficult to keep track of because you could be spending every day on various items. It is also an...

Insurance brands like Discovery Insure and Dialdirect offer rewards of up to 75% of your premiums back if you drive well. They do this by monitoring your car through a...

Fuel costs are a big cost for most households, and if you’re spending R500 a week on petrol that amounts to R26000 a year! That means even a 10% saving...

There are many reward programmes that offer what seem to be very big rewards – up to 15% off your fuel, up to 25% off your groceries, up to 50%...

A large proportion of your cell phone contract is made up of the cost of the actual phone. While it is always a thrill to get an upgrade every two...

There are two basic types of reward programmes: retailers who want you to buy from them banks who want to to pay using them The effect is that you can...

If you want the cheapest prices on Hansgrohe taps, contact Classic Trading.  Although they typically sell premium quality and priced bathroom fixtures and tiles, they pride themselves on having the...

When you have a bond the bank will require you to take out insurance on the building, and they will often make you feel that you have to buy the...

Sometimes it seems call centres are designed to wear you down so that your complaints just go away. We will show you a way to escalate your issue so that...

Some online retailers offer quite big incentives to partners to drive traffic to their sites. A new phenomenon of cash back sites have emerged, where the partners pass these incentives...

WASPs are companies that sometimes trick you into subscribing for content that uses your data and then billing you daily or weekly without you realizing it. It could be up...