Reading Time: 4 Minutes Happy Australia Day everyone! Hope we are all taking the time out to spend it with our loved ones. This weekend also coincided with the Chinese Lunar New Year so it was a doubly joyous occasion for The Frugal Samurai household. Happy New Year! Australia Day also marks the time when the year starts to kick off again in terms of activity and work. The Christmas and New Year slow-down period is firmly in the rear-view mirror, and it’s time to get back on the horse. It’s also the time when we reflect on our New Year resolutions and see how far (or not) we have…
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How To Hold Your Partner Financially Accountable
Reading Time: 3 Minutes What’s up everyone! Hope we all had a great week. Listen, so I was reading the papers earlier and came up on a pretty interesting article… https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/queen-s-message-to-harry-and-meghan-couldn-t-be-clearer-it-s-over-20200119-p53spj.html?js-chunk-not-found-refresh=true I know right! I mean Harry! What are you…wait… sorry, wrong article. This is the right one. https://www.smh.com.au/money/planning-and-budgeting/how-to-get-mortgage-free-by-using-an-envelope-budgeting-system-20200107-p53pj5.html?js-chunk-not-found-refresh=true It describes the personal finance journey of a couple, aptly named Cheetah and Sparky. Cheetahs as you well know, are the fastest creatures in the animal kingdom. But this Cheetah turns out to be a “part-time fitness instructor and personal trainer”… Cheetahs sometimes do this you know. Sparky is an electrician. He fixes er… electricity. The article goes on to say…
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4 Ways to Keep Your New Year Resolutions (Happy 2020!)
Reading Time: 3 Minutes Happy New Year everyone! It’s the beginning of a brand new decade. Exciting stuff! How was your New Year celebrations like? We had a grand old time here in old Sydney town as MrsFrugalSamurai and I spent it with our family, watching the fireworks as they herald in 2020. Importantly, the start of each new year brings with it new year’s resolutions. If you’re like me, resolutions typically involve a more active approach to health and fitness, improved career/finances and learning new things for personal and professional development. But then studies show that 4 out of 5 of us will fail our New Year Resolutions by…
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Bye Bye 2019!
Reading Time: 3 Minutes Howdy everyone! Wherever you are, hope you’re having a WONDERFUL festive season with your nearest and dearest. Although, can you believe that we are on the very last legs of the year AGAIN? Where does the time go, seriously. This will be yours truly’s last post for the year and I wanted to say a big THANK YOU to all of you for making this blog what it is. Been a whirlwind couple of years and I am genuinely stunned with the reception this blog has received since. So for the last post of 2019, I thought I’d do a quick review of how it went…
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The Parable Of The Mexican Fisherman
Reading Time: 2 Minutes What’s up guys! So yesterday, MrsFrugalSamurai and I went out to celebrate a birthday lunch with some old friends. It was great to get outdoors, and see their everyone’s faces again – albeit with the smoke haze from the bushfires still lingering. A short aside – but for our international friends who are unaware, Sydney has been shrouded in smog for the last few weeks as our brave firefighters battle the raging fires… spare a thought for those who are in the thick of it. Anyhow, smoke or no smoke, life still goes on. So it came that we found ourselves sitting in a venue which…
