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What a cool idea. Never heard one like it, before! I’m going to do that with $! coins!
Sorry, EZ, the reason I wondered if you were in property or investing was because financially literate people sometimes don’t realise how little the rest of us know! I, being so ignorant in either subject, needed a book like RDPD to shake me up and make me think and learn. THose who know these fields well poo-poo his books probably with good reason but it’s amazing how little the average person knows about money and how his books have goaded so many into thining! That was all I meant.
$12oo pw!!!! WOW!
Another good money saving idea: use those phone c cards (apple, hello, etc) for all your international calls, you save a tonne.
Amazing about the $10K. Good on you! How long did it take? Pounds or dollars?
I never thought to ask but it’s a good question…
a good idea.
BTW are you JApanese or Australian or a Japenese Australian? I don’t know what accent to read your posts in… I am a kiwi.BTW, I’m no Pollyanna!! You can’t count on me to bring cheer into people’s daily lives…. Apollonia was the name in the book “The Godfather” which is a wonderful book. It’s an Italian name and I am a fan of Italian culture.
That is such a cool book, eh? I have it already. I was involved in some intense study until about a month ago and now have the time to actually do something about my finances so I am going to start doing as she recommends. Problem is, I can’t find the book, it’s lying around somewhere…
I have already started to keep a running account of my daily spending! I am finding I am spending a whole lot less just because I have to do this!Yeah, thanks, Andrew!
This is an anonymous forum so we get to behave in less than socially acceptable ways and I have a really bad and rude habit of correcting people’s English and I really am itching to correct yours (definitively proove) but would you be awfully offended if i did?[
]What an awesome idea! WHere did you save the money? In a jar? But, didn’t that just mean you were taking more money out when you ran out?
Cool, thanks.
YEah, agree about the cigarettes, Lung cancer and heart disease are pretty expensive deals, too….
With pocket money, what does that really include? I am so used to spending, i am not sure what is essential and what isn’t. Lke, you can treat yourself to nonessential items at the supermarket, now, and label that “groceries”! What did you call non essential?The thing with me is the constant leak of money through my fingers with very few substantial purchases to show for it!
I second you, Brianhc. I would rather give my money to reputable charities than to a bungling, government which thinks in billions and for whom 100 million mismanaged here and there means nothing much.
It’s a joke. The cost of maitaining roads, schools, health etc is ridiculous and I wonder where the money goes.Thanks, HArold.
To some extent, my sense of unfulfillment is a bit of “burnout” and the hospital system can and does screw you at any time and so you become distrustful of the system and even of your patients. WIth the threat of legal action or “complaints”, it can become hard to relax and enjoy the work and trusting your patient is one of the aspects of serving them. So, to some extent I need to readjust my attitude!I agree with you, totally and I don’t want to be a slave to my job, eiher. I will have moer flexibility to shape my career as I want it if I am not financially dependant on it.
I am still hoping to become a movie star, actually…
Thanks!
DOes anyone know if these books are readily available in the library?Hi! I note your email address and wonder if you are in property or finance. I am in neither and I can say that RDPD was an amazing mind opener for me in terms of thinking about my financial future and how I was going to live my life. It didn’t just say, “budget, save, accumulate things”, it really was a paradigm shift. I would never have thought about money in that way were it not for him. I also think that his books are vague and scant on practical detail and I see they have thier limitations and beyond the first one, there isn’t much more he says and I spent hundreds on further products which I don’t think helped me. John Reid’s article helped me, too.
I mean, the value of the book isn’t whether there was a rich dad or not but whether what he allegedly says has any merit. In my opinion, it does.
No, That Aussie product for $300 which educates people on investing in property.
Thanks, everyone!
Thank you, so much, everybody. Feel I have learnt a lot and can at least start discussions with my financial planner.
I am a doctor, almost a paediatrician. Just sat and passed horrible exams to specialise and I don’t really always find the work as fulfilling as I had anticipated. I think that is because junior doctors, who usually do the most work in the hospital system, come in for the least amount of appreciation and when you do a job like this you do it because you want to see people happy, not disgruntled. Everyone who goes into hospital, remember to say thanks to the intern and resident and registrar! My surgical clleagues do 80 hour shifts once every three weeks on top of a 50 hour week. YEs, eighty hour shifts with NO protected sleep. They snatch a few hours of naps a day.
I am anticipating the job to get better as I get further on.
Everyone here is so much more financially educated than me and I am somewhat out of my depth but the rewards are going to beworth the time learning.
My parents were very hard working migrants who were very frugal growing up. They are now in a very comfortable financial position and I admire them so much. They gave their five kidstop quality educations and we now are all set well in our careers. Of course, being a typical, ungrateful child of a migrant, I was embarrassed and annoyed about thier frugality and only in the last three or so years have realised what they achieved! Before that, I resisted all their financial advice. Talk about dumb!I am 32 but look 23. LOL! I thought I was the only one who anwered questions about my age like this!
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Hi alli’m 39
But i’m really good looking and everyone reckons i am only about 24
westan
With 6 years med school, a diploma and an extremely gruelling set of specialist exams (much, much harder than ANYTHING at medical school), I am NOWHERE NEAR $100K a year. We are in the hoepital system for ten or more years after we graduate and are hence public servants so earn very modest salaries. Just wanted to dispel annoying and inflated ideas about how much doctors earn!!
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