Reading Time: 1 Minute A note to self…as part of R U OK? (For those of us who are going through a tough time). There’s plenty of things going on, so many distractions and really no one knows for sure what it is we are doing. But you know – always striving and hoping to be the best person you can be is everything we can wish for. Sometimes life will get us down, and sometimes we’re on our knees praying for everything to just go away, to leave us alone. It ain’t easy, life never is. But we have to breathe. We have to stand up and believe in…
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4 Lessons of Instagram and Investing
Reading Time: 3 Minutes So this week, we received news that Instagram is rolling out an experiment to see what happens when it hides the number of likes on photos and other posts. It affects users in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Ireland, Italy, Japan and New Zealand. Canada has just finished its trial. No longer will the number of “likes” be shown, rather it will be replaced by one user name and “others”. Under this new system, you can see how many likes your posts get, but your followers won’t be able to – unless they click into the post and count individually… but who would? I would imagine that there…
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What I’m Viewing
Reading Time: 2 Minutes Hola damas y caballeros, ¿cómo están? Bienvenidos a otra edición de TheFrugalSamurai. Coughs. Ahem, excuse me there – had the language settings all mixed up. As much as I love speaking Russi… er Spanish, have to admit it that it makes things difficult for a predominantly English blog. Quick and easy one today with another rendition of the classic TheFrugalSamurai’s “What I’m Viewing”. Been a while since I’ve done one of these (last one here) so thought it best to keep us all updated on a short selection of articles, videos and links I’ve found useful in the last couple weeks to assist us on our financial…
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Fragile or Anti-Fragile?
Reading Time: 2 Minutes What’s up everyone! How’s our weekends coming along? A big hello to our Northern hemisphere cousins – hoping that you guys are enjoying the Northern Summer as it sl-ow-ly creeps along, don’t worry – it’ll get there! Meanwhile, yours truly experienced a very rare event last night… We went to “take in a show” at the iconic Sydney Opera House. Well, rather we went to support MrsFrugalSamurai’s Mum as she performed as part of the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs. I quite enjoyed myself surprisingly, chiefly because my own singing voice has oft been compared to a duck not having a good time. MrsFrugalSamurai has always said she…
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Our Latest Buy (Part 4)
Reading Time: 5 Minutes Howdy boys and girls! Me again. Let’s dive straight in and plug on with part 4 of our latest real estate purchase (read Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 here). Last time I disclosed that we bought Property 3 for a surprising offer of $210,000 against an asking price of $298,000. Let’s take a look at the pros and cons for this one… and you decide whether it’s a good buy or not! Pros So um… where to start? I guess from the beginning! In Part 1, I stated that the property was listed for $298,000, however 1 bedroom units in the same complex were asking…
