The Weekend Collective

The cost of having or raising a child is often the most considered issue among couples planning to start or grow their family.
It's not just the shopping trips for prams and cots and nappies - it's the income loss over the months of parental leave and the endless sick days once daycare starts up.
Plunket estimates a medium-budget cost for raising a child for the first year comes to just under $16,000. That works out to a whole lot of sacrifice.
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Staging homes has been a popular way to market your property for years.
It's not your home as you have lived in it God Forbid but it gives potential buyers an idea of what their future home could look like if it were intentionally designed and hardly lived in.
We know our home likely won't look a whole lot like that once we move ourselves in - but there's a rising trend of digitally altered property photos that are harder to see through.
What was once just higher contrast and saturation, or greener grass, could be a slippery slope to changes that would cost an arm and a leg to make a reality.
Overseas, a few agents have even gone as far as knocking out a wall or installing a deck digitally to show the potential of a property that may not have a lot to offer otherwise.
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This week on The Panel, Tim Beveridge is joined by Untidy Podcast host Matilda Green and Infometrics CEO Brad Olsen to discuss the biggest stories from the week that was.
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All investment accounts are a bit touch and go at the moment.
If you're checking your KiwiSaver more than a few times a year, the amount of movement could really start to get to your head.
But for those close to or at retirement age, or about to withdraw for whatever reason - a volatile market can make all the difference.
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The weather is cooling down and winter is almost upon us...
That means winter sports will be starting up soon if they haven't already, and your muscles will be tighter and more vulnerable to injury than in the warmer months.
What injuries are more likely when it's colder out, and how can we avoid them?
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