Reading Time: 2 Minutes What’s up everyone! Hope y’all had a great weekend :) Its just me and the kids at home this week, MrsFrugalSamurai decided (kindly) to leave me with the lil terrors. She’s off to Brisvegas for a conference apparently… didn’t know “holiday” rhymes with “conference” these days. Anyhow, to celebrate her glorious gesture – I decided to take the family to Yum Cha on Sunday. For those of you uneducated in the art of Yum Cha, it’s where you go to a (usually) Chinese restaurant with (assumedly) Chinese old ladies pushing trolleys of food in little wicker baskets around. They (typically) stop beside your table and bark…
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House Prices Fall In 40% Of Sydney Suburbs
Reading Time: 2 Minutes I was perusing the interwebs whilst trying to put BabyFrugalSamurai down to sleep last night, and an article happened to catch my eye: House prices fall in 40pc of Sydney suburbs “House prices are now falling across two out of every five Sydney suburbs, a five-fold increase from a year ago, and the highest level in 20 months… the share of Melbourne suburbs where house values dropped in the past three months also blew out to 76.3 per cent, six times higher than last year”. Holy smokes was my initial thought, wondering if the precipitous drop had ensnared the suburb where we reside. I quickly scanned…
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Return Of The Donald (And How It Affects Me)
Reading Time: 2 Minutes He’s Back! Who? The Donald of course! The President-elect of the United States. I still can’t quite believe THAT GUY I watched on The Apprentice two decades ago will now be the leader of the free world for the SECONDÂ time. Amazing what the circle of life brings. But frankly speaking, I wouldn’t have voted for either Harris or Trump even if I was eligible. If those two candidates were the “best” which the US had to offer in terms of the presidency, then it’s a pretty sad state of affairs. Sigh. Seems to me that politics these days is all about pandering to whatever extreme left…
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5 Thoughts From Our China Trip
Reading Time: 4 Minutes “STREWTH I’M GLAD THAT’S OVER”. I said, as I collapsed onto the couch. “Daddy!!! Can we GO AGAIN PLEEEEASE”. Something yelled in my ear. No-forking-way I thought, as I closed my eyes and rubbed my forehead in stress. You see boys and girls, MrsFrugalSamurai and I (and the rugrats) just came back from a trip to the motherland. And what a trip it was – if you’ve never gone travelling with kids… DON’T. For a couple of weeks there was proper blood, sweat and tears – the whole shebang, sometimes (oftentimes) all within the one day. This was the first trip back to the motherland for…
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An Investment Lesson For This Long Weekend
Reading Time: 2 Minutes Man that was a long drive! You see, MrsFrugalSamurai decided on a whim that we were tagging along to a bunch of MiniFrugalSamurai’s friends (and their parents) for the long weekend. This meant that BabyFrugalSamurai and TheFrugalSamurai (myself) also tagged along with MrsFrugalSamurai and MiniFrugalSamurai to our nations capital – Canberra. Strewth, that’s some messy writing. What’s also messy was the UTTER. SHITHOUSE. TRAFFIC. JAM. coming out of Sydney. We basically came to a standstill for an hour or so on the city outskirts. What is normally a 3 hour drive, turned into a monster 5 and a half hour trek – needless to say, I’m…
