Reading Time: 3 Minutes Sigh, finally it’s come to this. The end of what has been a most interesting year, to say the LEAST. Bye Bye 2020! We had huge expectations to spend tonight with friends and family – but as is often the case this year, lockdowns have reared its ugly head again which meant a more muted celebration is in order. Stay safe people! As I sit at home sipping my freshly chilled coconut water, I had wanted to write a summary post for the year, but guess that will wait till next time. Because as promised, today’s post is a wrap up of what I learnt in…
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We Bought A House! (Part 2: More Renos), Oh And Merry Christmas!
Reading Time: 2 Minutes Merry Christmas everyone! Been a while since my last post. Apologies been AWOL recently as renovating the new home, moving places and wrapping up what has been a crazy year of work – meant that literally, I had zero time to even respond back to friend’s messages. Yes Steve, would love to have dinner with you and Pam on the 21st… WHEW, a huge sigh of relief because the renos are practically done. I had blogged in my latest post (read here) how MrsFrugalSamurai and I had become landowners this month. Man alive, is there a lot of work involved! But y’know, I can’t help feel…
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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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Excerpt from The Complete Aussie FIRE e-book (Property Investing Meets FIRE)
Reading Time: 7 Minutes Hola peeps! Another weekend down, and oh boy – cannot WAIT for 2020 to be over, what a tough, tough year it’s been! Amazingly I was remarking to MrsFrugalSamurai only this morning, that it felt like yesterday that we went through a mass toilet paper shortage (remember that?) and that face masks and hand sanitizers were flying out the door… … then I promptly closed the toilet door and yelled out that we had run out of toilet paper. Anyhow, today’s post is the 2nd chapter that I was lucky enough to write in Aussie FIRE: The Ultimate Guide to Financial Independence for Australians courtesy of Pearler.com…
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COUPLE’S GUIDE TO MERGING FINANCES (Youtube Video)
Reading Time: 1 Minute Today’s video is on one of the most under-rated topics in personal finance, and that is on how to manage your finances together as a couple. Sure it’s easy when you live and spend for yourself, but when you find “the one”, you want to make sure your finances are as strong as your relationship! Transcript: OK, so up until now, your financial decisions affected only you. You had no one to answer to and everything revolved around you. Then you decided to get married… and you find out that your spouse’s attitude to money is completely different to yours. What do you do now? Well…
