Reading Time: 2 Minutes What’s up everyone! Hope we’re all having a great weekend. I know I did, because we were social to the MAX. Felt good to break up the weekend routine of staying indoors for once. Although that doesn’t stop me posting quality and titillating content on this quality and titillating blog. As you might have seen with the headline, but property values in New Zealand are SCORCHING. Residential property prices have surged by a whopping 20% compared to last year, pushing the median price of a house in Auckland, New Zealand’s most populous city, above NZ$1m (AUD $950k) for the first time. And that’s not all, take…
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DON’T FALL FOR THESE 6 COMMON ADVERTISING TRICKS
Reading Time: 1 Minute Hey all, this post is a video version of my most recent post (read here). From a lot of the feedback I’ve received from the earlier post, I thought – it’s gotta be deserving of a video! Hope you guys enjoy: Transcript: OK so did you buy anything from the Black Friday Sales? What about Cyber Monday? If yes, chances are you’ve fallen for one of those tricky marketing tactics retailers use to make us part with our hard earned. I felt compelled to do this video, because I think it’s super important we are all aware of the most common tactics used against us, as…
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TRICKS SELLERS USE TO MAKE YOU BUY MORE
Reading Time: 2 Minutes “Hey we have to buy this…” “But what?” “This”. I looked around… sigh, yet ANOTHER item we must have. Turns out this time, it’s a DeLonghi air purifier, heater and cooling fan. Ooo La La. Yep, welcome to the one weekend where MrsFrugalSamurai turns into a possessed wheeler and dealer – hustling and bustling in the online Bazaar. I am referring of course, to the Black Friday Sales, which leads into Cyber Monday. As much as I love having my CO2 purified, I can’t help but feel my gullible yet still sexually attractive wife has been suckered by yet another tactical play from the retail powers-to-be.…
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BITCOIN (BTC) On FYRE
Reading Time: 2 Minutes Hey! Clear the way in the old bazaar Hey you! Let us through! It’s a brand new star! Oh come, be the first on your block to meet his eye! Make way! Here he comes! Ring bells! Bang the drums! You’re gonna love this guy! Which guy? Well… Mr Bitcoin of course! I know, I know. I’ve posted about Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies before (read here, here, here and so much more). BUT. There’s been some huge albeit largely undetected news going on in the Crypto world. Bitcoin is back Baby! Whoa! Just look at that price chart. From a low of just over US$4800 in March,…
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Is it Dangerous To Be In Equities (Now)?
Reading Time: 3 Minutes Today’s post is an expansion to a brilliant question from one of the social media groups that I subscribe to. Is it Dangerous To Be In Equities? To paraphrase, the original poster queries the majority of people in the FIRE community who have an asset allocation consisting of 100% in equities, a majority of which sits in index funds (ETFs). It seems like the narrative is “Buy equities, passively, at any price, indefinitely, and hold virtually no other assets, it’s all good coz you can’t beat the market, oh and lowest fees possible”. Occasionally with “use margin or other leverage to speed it up”. With equity…
