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I've had two Beefeater 4 burner BBQs over the last 25 years and they've been great. The only reason I got the second one was that the wife wanted a hooded one and the old one couldn't be retrofitted, otherwise I'd still be running the old one now. We've switched between LPG and natural gas on...

Indeed. House prices consistently exceeding wage growth must have been happening for centuries for people to keep buying up for investment the way they do.

2 kms is a nice short walk to our local shops and back that I would define as casual. If the weather is nice, I'll take an even longer, more scenic route.

Leo and Licorice.

When one has used value for money as their foundation to achieve their riches, it is not really possible to 'relax' in the way suggested without compromising that. Similar to those who continue to work on once they achieve financial independence, it's hard to turn back on what got you there in...

My parents, my two brothers and I lived in a caravan until I was in grade 5, then we moved into a house. People thought we were poor in those early years, but we felt rich with all the friends we made on parks and all the places we travelled to while going around Australia over that time. When...

I choose to take every day off. I don't think of it as costing me, I think of it as saving me :D

I got sick of ink jet printers clogging up and costing a small fortune to keep fed with ink so I switched to a basic Brother mono laser wireless printer and have not looked back. Purchase price was around $70, 2500-page aftermarket cartridges are cheap at around $30 and in two years of running...

I'd expect a minor service to be around $200 and a major around $400. Reality is about double that and previously experienced quality has been average to low. I do my own servicings at around $50 and $100 for minors and majors respectively and quality is, IMO, much higher.

We were recently coming in at around $250 per week for groceries for 4 adults, two of who are in their early 20's (ie. eat much more than us). Main shop is at Aldi, Woolies for what is left. It's quite easy to put together a meal for 4 for under $10 if you make meals from scratch.

Much less than I earn.

I wake up whenever I damn well please. Successful enough to have retired @ 45.

Unlikely, because if you use less you will save less and you still have to pay the daily supply fee. Our bills were only $400 before solar and are likely to only be around half that after solar's contribution.

I too have only recently had solar installed, so no quantified cost savings on bills for me yet either. I do have a monitoring program that I wrote and that shows roughly $2 per day savings on average we are making or approx $700 per year off our electricity bill.

Foxtel will need to adapt to this new world of cheap on-demand media content, or they will perish.