Reading Time: 4 Minutes Hey guys! How y’all doing! And how’s those new year resolutions coming along? Keep going! I’ve added a new one to our list – we have to find a new place to live. Pronto. Not by choice you see, but because we have this crazy neighbour next door who has been causing malicious property damage on our apartment level. The guy thought it was a good idea to start hammering and drilling through the tiles and walls of our common area in the wee hours of the morning. Apparently he’s always been a bit unstable but it’s only in the last couple of weeks where his…
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A Day In the Life of a Stock Position!
Reading Time: 5 Minutes Hi guys! Back again for another edition of your favourite Frugal Samurai? Of course you are! What a difference a few days make eh, I mean following on from the previous post (read here), where I was around $3k in the hole from gambling investing in the stock market – the market’s turned a fair bit and now my position is sitting around break-even. Goes to show you how quickly the market can move up and down doesn’t it! And you know they always say to “never” be emotional about investing, but there’s a reason why so very, very few people actually make money in the…
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Amusing Timeline of (Recent) Australian Prime Ministers
Reading Time: 7 minutes Hey y’all! How’s it all going? Hope you’ve had a great week so far! I’m here in old Melbourne town actually, on a national work conference for a couple of days. As much as I would love to see the sights and catch up with old friends, frankly the schedule and activities which work has placed on us doesn’t allow for much, if any, free time (I’m writing this at 4am as we speak). Still! Looking forward to a couple of days out of the office with everyone from around the country – should be exciting! I was going to continue writing on the previous post…
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How Watching Tintin is Changing Me One Step at a Time!
“No Tintin! Don’t go that way!” Said I, whilst on the edge of my seat this afternoon, engrossed in the latest episode of “The Adventures of Tintin”. The plot line was about one of his associates, a lady opera singer – who had lost her extremely valuable Emerald. Of course, like all Tintin stories – there was a happy ending (not that kind, it’s a children’s show for goodness sake). The lesson I got out of the episode, is if you ever lose a precious gemstone the size of your fist – don’t investigate your personal maid, or your gambling addict pianist. Emeralds are created when rocks are soaked in…
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Investing in Real Estate 102 (Mindset and More)
HEY news flash guys – did you know big circles are really hard to fit inside small rectangles? After 2 hours of trying, MrsFrugalSamurai-to-be and I know now. Yep, that’s the scenario that confronted her and I when one of her good friends’ generously offered a barely-used dining table to us. With hindsight, I should have figured out something was slightly amiss when she said that the table was a “demountable”. The only experience I’ve had with demountables are mobile classrooms and other really really big structures that can fit whole adults inside them. I tried to quiz MrsFrugalSamurai-to-be on how big the table was BEFORE we left to pick…
