Pay Day with finance content creator Michael Ko: 'Painfully, about 50 per cent of my income goes towards the mortgage'It's Pay Day! The ABC's new column where we ask Australians the money questions we don't like to talk about. We aim to demystify personal finance and normalise conversations about what we earn and how we save it — or spend it.
For Pay Day, Michael shares the money advice he would give to his younger self — avoid any form of "bad" debt and invest early and consistently to secure a financially comfortable future.I would broadly say my financial situation is quite good and comfortable. I'm able to access all of the necessities and most of my desired non-necessities.We didn't really directly talk about money much in my family.
Which I actually think is a little bit unfortunate as I believe more transparency overall would probably lead to everyone having better financial outcomes in the long run.
An example of this? I upgrade to the new iPhone every year just to have the latest tech . And to be honest there are barely any changes each upgrade, and might be interesting for a week or two, but otherwise I never think about it again.The federal government will classify buy now, pay later options as credit products, as part of sweeping changes to protect consumers. Here's what it means in practice.