Reading Time: 2 Minutes Hello everyone! Gosh, it feels so long since I’ve clickity clackity-ed on a blog post buuuuuut… I’m back! Been a full two months since the last one, and as I’ve read somewhere that it takes about 66 days for a new habit to form – I didn’t want to lose my writer’s touch. Mind you, it’s not such a bad time to get back into writing – as today is day 1 of ANOTHER lockdown in Old Sydney Town. Sigh, this nasty COVID business just won’t go away eh? Kinda like a nasty bug you can’t shake off when you have the er, flu. Anyhow, what…
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Welcome MiniFrugalSamurai!
Reading Time: 2 Minutes Howdy everyone! Apologies for being AWOL but some BIG news – we have a new addition to the family! Please welcome… MINIFRUGALSAMURAI. Ain’t he cute? Just like his old man haw haw. Suffice to say, MrsFrugalSamurai and I are run off our FEET (explains my AWOLness). I love it though. Honestly speaking, I think that there is nothing more special than to raise another human life. It’s given me a new sense of purpose and y’know what – puts a lot of things in perspective. Truly, when they say that family is number one – they were referring to your own kids. Raising a child has…
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The Wealth Effect (Another Crazy Auction Story)
Reading Time: 3 Minutes “And SOLD, to the young woman in green”. “BANG” goes the gavel, as it comes crashing down… to the applause of the crowd. Yep. You guessed it. It’s another bumper auction result from what is Sydney, nay Australia’s biggest past-time. That is, having a sticky-beak at your neighbour’s property auction. This time, the property in question was a street over from ours. But First, To Set The Scene. MrsFrugalSamurai and I had viewed this one at it’s first mid-week open about 3 weeks ago. It was a standard 3 bed/2 bath/1 car on a sloping block, freshly landscaped and renovated throughout. I was sipping a freshly…
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Life’s Top 5 Regrets
Reading Time: 2 Minutes A couple of days ago I celebrated my Birthday. It wasn’t a milestone age or anything like that – just one of those humble, hardworking numbers you have to get past in order to reach a milestone. However it did remind me that I am well and truly in my 30’s, and approaching the period of one’s life where things start to become a bit tricky. You know, where you start to enter “middle age” and the next phase of your life. Strewth! Where does time fly eh! Ever the sentimentalist, I’ve been searching far and wide for some guidance regarding how to navigate this delicate…
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Mistakes I’ve Made A Few
Reading Time: 3 Minutes Recently I was perusing the required reading material that is the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Letter. If you don’t know what this is – basically it’s the shareholder letter Warren Buffet writes each year since 1977. Every year it’s a hot topic of debate and there’s gems a-plenty. This time, he discusses a lot about his mistakes which I think makes him unique in the market – in that he talks more about his failures than his successes. Editor’s Note: Incidentally I never trust a person who only talks about their wins, never their losses/learns. Anyone who has been investing for a while knows that the more…
