Hello and welcome back to It All Adds Up the podcast where we chat about money, how to get it, how to save it and how to invest it. I'm Jess Irvine, a senior economics writer at the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age newspapers.
And I'm Don Powell, money editor at those very same papers. We hope you all had a lovely break and enjoyed our summer series Re Heat of the best hits from our first season. We're back and raring to go, but we've decided to kick off 2023 with something a little different.
Yeah, that's right. With the cost of living crisis really biting now. We've decided that we want to talk to you, our listeners, about how you are coping. Do you have a budget? Do you know how much you're spending? Dom Do you know how much you're spending?
No, no, not at all.
That does not surprise me. For some reason I definitely know how much I'm spending because I write down every single dollar and highlight it. But I thought we could actually start this series by calling you across the coals and seeing if you know where your money's going. Are you up for it?
Look, I think for the good of the listeners, for the good of the pod, I'll do it.
You'll expose your finances.
I will expose my finances. But for everyone else, we're here to help. And we're setting the call out for you to send us your numbers. They don't have to be in a fancy spreadsheet like Jess's. They can be completely unorganized like mine. And in return, we'll take a look, and we can see if we can find you some obvious ways to save some cash or achieve a financial goal or two.
Yeah. You can think of us as your friends down the pub having a chat, you know, to help you get to grips with this tricky subject of money and hopefully put you on a better path to make some good money decisions in 2023.
Can we actually go to the pub?
Yeah, Dom, if you're buying.
All right, maybe not then. But anyway, this is where we want you to get involved. Whether you're a spreadsheet wizard or have no clue at all where you're at. We'd love you to get in touch. You can email us at it all. Adds up at 9:00 pm to you with your name and contact details and a little bit about you, such as where you live and how much you think you spend.
Yeah, we personally monitor that email inbox, so if you do email us a promise that one of us will be back in touch with you. We'll be dropping our episodes in this new series from next week, so do stay tuned.
And I can't wait to be grilled live on air. So I'll see you then.
Yeah, I can't wait to grill you on it. See you all then.