Reading Time: 3 Minutes “Idō shite kudasai” I looked back… a smirking Japanese boy of 8 looks up at me. Hesitantly, I snake around the chain link fence and let him move past. This is it, I say to myself… if a kid can do it, I can bloody well do it. ~~~ OK so you might be thinking, what is he on about? Well, MrsFrugalSamurai and I spent the last few days in the Australian Outback… or more specifically, in the dead centre of our great country, where we visited the famous Uluru, or Ayers Rock. It was quite an incredible experience and I can totally see why many…
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What’s Wrong With Working In Your Passion?
Reading Time: 2 Minutes Hey, what’s up you! How’s it going? Apologies for being AWOL mid-week as I was away on our annual company conference with 800 of my colleagues. It was quite fun actually, a great time for everyone to get together and plan for the year ahead. Although the key take-out from this 4 day sojourn is that we need to work harder, work longer and work better. One of the speakers also presented on the WHY. You know, why do you wake up every day? Why do you do what you do? Why do you come to work? To…to get paid? Now, if you answered to pay…
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What Type of Property Should I Buy?
Reading Time: 3 Minutes This was the question posed to me by a loyal reader this week. Hm. Well firstly, thank you to MikeW for posing the question, hope you’re enjoying the blog! But in response to this, I think the best way to go about it is to understand which types of property your partner likes. Partner? What partner? Well the banks of course! If they’re the ones lending you 80% or more of a value of a property – you’ll need to understand what they like right? Don’t forget, a 30 year mortgage – is a 30 year relationship! When your partner says no… In general, banks restrict…
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1 Simple Step for Personal Finance Beginners
Reading Time: 2 Minutes What’s up everyone! How’s it going? Had a very interesting discussion at lunch with some work colleagues today. As you all know, we live in Sydney, Australia – an absolutely amazing place to be. Unfortunately that awesomeness is offset by the supreme cost of living, quid pro quo as they say! And this was the topic with my colleagues. One of them recently had a baby, and he was telling us about a trick he is employing for their future. Well, it’s not necessarily a trick but more of a life hack. Basically the guy loves Bubble/Boba teas, often guzzling 3 or 4 a DAY. So…
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The Machines Are Coming
Reading Time: 2 Minutes G’day all! I was having dinner with my long-time chum DeeSee this week and we reminisced a lot about our high school days. He has an upcoming class reunion to mark 15 years since graduation. FIFTEEN! Makes me friggin’ old just thinking about it. During our convo, we talked about how much change has occurred since. As a financial journalist, DeeSee has the perfect bird’s eye view of the trends and topics going on in the world today. One of the biggest change we discussed, is the rise of the machines. Now, as much as you might have enjoyed Arnie and Sarah Connor and Skynet, you’d…
