It’s December boys and girls! Don’t you just love it! Summer’s finally here in Old Sydney Town and everywhere you look people have that look of hope and joy and love in their eye. It’s true what they say about the weather and how it affects people’s moods – have a look at this, unless you club baby seals in your downtime – it’s hard not to feel some warmth. MrsFrugalSamurai-to-be and I spent our weekend diligently planning our upcoming wedding next year. We even interviewed a couple of wedding photographers. “Do you have a camera?” S…si senor “Can you take pictures with it?” Si senor “You’re hired”. But senor… I here…
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Here’s What I Did After Losing $40,000
Hay Guys! How you all going! Summer has well and truly come to Sydney and I spent most of it outdoors with friends, how about you?! Hope you had a cracker of a weekend as well! After the crazy week at work I’ve had, I needed this! Don’t you just love social interactions with good friends, good food and good times? What life should be all about. I got a bit of banter from a couple of friends about the last post as well – “hey funny guy, why don’t you actually post what you did instead of some Santa Claus fairytales?” S…sorry if my darkest childhood memories got in the…
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Amazon is Here!
Hi guys! How’s everyone doing! “Cough cough” What’s wrong TheFrugalSamurai? Excuse me, I’ve been knocked out and about with the flu all week. What’s that? Of course it’s not man flu! It’s a Jen-u-wine flu. I was going to continue the short series on my experiences of losing $40,000 but a couple of days ago something exciting happened here in Australia – Amazon launched their online store. ABOUT DAMN TIME. Here in Australia – retail is suffering, rising rents, lower consumer spending, flat wages growth and soaring house prices have coincided with the toughest trading conditions for many years. But can you blame us? For years we have had to…
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What I Learnt From Losing $40,000
Back again guys! I hope everyone enjoyed my previous post – the one where I gave myself a good paper-cut and squeezed some lemon juice onto old memories just for your viewing pleasure. There’s been a fair amount of messages about that episode, mainly around what I did next, what I learnt, what I’m wearing when I type out a post. To be frank (Anne – come and find me, oh dear “shakes head”) I took that hit pretty hard. I mean it wasn’t like I blinked twice slowly and then continued with whatever I was doing, it was a good 18 months or so before I could contemplate investing again…
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How’s Your Mindset?
HAY GUYS – how are you? Ready for another post? Of course you are! Before I get in stuck in have to say I received plenty of public and private messages for the last post about FIRE. Looks like it’s a topic which strikes a chord with many people. Hats off to Banesan for pointing out that in order to retire early you can just move to a developing country, in fact it’s what a lot of people who have achieved FIRE do. The USD or AUD goes a long way in those places. Ooo also before I forget, I’ll sneak in a big thank you for everyone who’s read and supported…
