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Yay! Babies!! I told you we should start a thread showing off the forum bubs!
Congratulations again Richmond!!! My brother and his wife broke that rule too, but only to family. They told at 7 weeks.
All very exciting though. THe first Versace grandchild! yay!!! Mine will be the second…
Not that I’m pregnant though.Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
Geez, I’ve just looked at the time! I’d better get moving off to school. LAST DAY TODAY!!! Woohoo!!!!
P.s remember I’m in WA, 3 hours behind….
Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
If she can look after a dog, a kid will be no probs… The dog you have to exercise, a kid, they just run around in circles.
A dog you have to feed every day, a kid can get to an age where they can eventually feed themselves…
Hee hee… Yeah, you go home and be a house dad. I am fully prepared after a year or two to swap with my husband so he can experience being a home daddy too. I don’t wanna be greedy…
I’m itching to get pregnant too, but we have decided to wait until after april/may next year before we get started… I’m lucky too in the fact that I can work right up until I’m 8 months gone in teaching too. So I won’t lose too much…
Plus the family daycare is certainly a big option for us as well.
Good luck Michael and anyone else about to breed. Bring on the babies!!! Maybe we need to start a thread where you show off your latest additions and I don’t mean properties!!! Hee hee…
Steph.Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
Hee hee hee…. Sigh… Geo, you always crack me up…
Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
Michael,
It is so funny that your wife reckons she hasn’t got a maternal bone in her body! Every woman has the maternal instinct, some a little more developed than others. My point is, she needs to change her opinion of herself before she has a child. If she continually thinks she’s not maternal, than she will not act maternal. But if she is open to whatever happens, then she may discover something about herself that she may come to really enjoy.My girlfriend fell pregnant rather unexpectedly to a fella she had only been with for 6 months. Thankfully they had been planning to get married before they found out anyway, but she was so not the typical “Mother” type. She has turned out to be the most fantastic mother I know of. I think she even shocked herself at how she took to motherhood.
She returned to work after a year of being at home, not for necessity, but because she didn’t want to lose touch with her career. She is planning to take a year or two off again soon to stay home and maybe have another baby. Kudos to her as she was open to the motherhood idea.
I don’t wanna sound like a lecturer or anything and it isn’t like I have children or anything, but I have been a nanny for rich people who value their careers and sometimes I actually wondered if they even remember they had children at all… No criticism on careers or anything, but some people shouldn’t even have children coz they don’t pay attention to them.
What about you giving up your job to stay home with little on Michael? Would that be a possibility for you? Even for a year?
Steph.
Richmond, I’m not digging at you mate, I’m just saying that there definitely is a characteristical laziness within certain generations. I’m just shit stirring really to see what reactions I get!!! Hee hee….
I don’t doubt that there are people out there dedicated to their children and wanting to stay home and have budgeted accordingly. I take my hat off to them. I want to be one of those people. I am extremely atamate that that is one condition of having a child. One of us (Cremin or myself) MUST stay home. I do not want my child to have someone else looking after them. Mind you, I am toying witht he idea of family daycare so I will be the carer of those dumped children, but hey, if I get to stay home and get paid a little. Why the hell not!!!
Good on those people who have thought it all through and are trying hard.
Steph.
Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
“Eventually his immense size was just too much for his heart, and Andre the Giant died in Paris, France in his hotel room on January 27, 1993.”
Poor ol’ Andre the Giant has been laid to rest…
His giantism got too much for his heart. Poor ol thing…I love the Princess Bride too. I used to think Carey Elwes was soooooooo dashing!!! Mr Darcy does it for me too! Not for Hubby though… He hates those sorts of movies… Sigh…
Michael! Yay yay yay!! [inlove][inlove]
Congratulations to you too!!! Cremin and I were married on the 12 January and were thinking of going back down to Margaret River for second honeymoon, but then we bought another property… Ho hum… mmm thinking about all that lucious wine… Yum… Oh well, we’ll just have to celebrate with some bottles from the bottlo from up here… Sigh…Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
Hey resiwealth! I am a SHE not a HE!!!
Someone said something about why 1976 is the cut off for generation x, well I don’t know why. I was born in 1978 and was always under teh belief that Generation X went throught to 1980.
I’m actually not sure I even believe in Generation Y… The generation after me (My brothers age group, 18) should be called the Mcdonalds Generation coz they are all fat, greedy and have no idea about how to look after themselves.
My opinion remember… Oh an interesting thing I thought I would also add, is why do the generation Xers not want anything to do with their children? I know so many people in that age group who blatantly hand their child over to anyone and everyone who would look after them. They look to anyone as a baby sitter and skive out of real responsibility.
Could this be related to the amount of litigation that is around in Australia today? Are generation Xers really living up to their responsibilities. I know many are, but I wonder what proportion of people are not…I certainly know of some of my own extended family who gets Nanna to look after kids a lot while she goes back to work. She doesn’t really need to but…
Hee hee, Just some of my own observations…
Oh and after really thinking about it, Generation Y only really applies to people born in 1977-1982. Then I reckon they are the mcdonalds generation….
Bye,
Steph.[blink][evil4][jerry][jerry][jerry]I dunno about the whole thing. I am apparently a generation Y, as generation x finished in 1976? Is that correct? THe funny thing is, that I sense people around my age and a little bit younger are going back to old fashioned values. More and more people from 23-29 are getting married and I really sense that these people are committing themselves wholeheartedly.
I really feel that this will have an effect beyond the Baby boomers and the Macdonald’s generation as these people are working hard now so they can spend time with their kids when they come along.
It is a big cycle and one genration might be screwed, but we can learn from those mistakes and move on to bigger and brighter things.
Oh yeah, I am not sure about this whole superannuation garble. I don’t put any extra in my super. Me doing the REI thing as well mainly as my super fund. Don’t intend on being a sponge when I’m old and grey, but we just don’t know what hand we will be dealt in life…
Steph.Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
Well Si,
If you develop the land, you gotta wait for the house to be built. I dunno about down that way, but up here in Geraldton, builders are booked up for the next two years. They wont even look at your plans.So maybe that’s a hurdle for you too. Finding a builder. Plus the bricks…(There is a major brick shortage in WA)
There is not certain answer. You have to work out what you can cope with.
Steph.Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
[inlove][inlove][inlove]
Awww Richmond!!! Congratulations on 1st year!! My other half and I are coming up to our third in January and we are thankful for each other every day. Even those days we are ready to kill each other, a second thought always comes to my head, “He might be pissing me off now, but what would it really be like without him…” My crappy mood would almost always stop… Sigh… Love, you gotta love it…Have a wonderful night and congratulations again.
It’s ok. You can be greedy with love tonight…Steph.[inlove]
Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
Hee hee Geo… I found out the cockroach one is pretty true! We had this corker of a cocky in our toilet and I managed to stun it with the bottle of DUCK, when the next blow took its head clean off. Body laid on its back with legs going madly. (This was late at night…)
Next day, went to the loo, sure enough, cockroachs legs still powering on while on its back with no head… Ants started to pick at the remains…
Two days after intial decapitation, cockraches legs finally stops moving due the fact the ants had completly eaten its insides out… Nice work… The strange thing was that even though ants were eating its guts, the legs kept moving as if it wanted to run away!!!
FREAKY!
Steph.Cremin and I sacrificed our family, friends and general comfort zone to get our foot on the property ladder. Now that we’ve made the step, it’s no looking back baby!!!
Time really isn’t an issue for us right now. We sacrifice a lot in the way of socialising. We limit ourselves to say, one big night a month, and even then we only really drink the home stilled grog hubby makes as his hobby. Saves us a crap load of money a year.
It’s been all worth it as we have two properties now, within six months of each other and we are willing to sacrifice more now so we can enjoy our children when they come along…
Steph.Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
Nice thread Yack.
Well, I think Cremin and I had a seriously productive year. Certainly the best year we’ve had in a long time.
1. We moved towns. From Perth to Geraldton so we could settle down after a long time travelling and generally being undecided with our future.
2. We scored jobs which service our means and we enjoy them at the same time.
3. We bought our first house in an area that was starting to boom, only to have it increase in price by $60k in the past six months with lots of growth still yet to come.
4. We’ve been renovating the house, which is something we have been dying to do for a long time, and we think we are doing a pretty god job as we don’t have time restrictions and we are doing it right the first time.
5. We went on an awesome trip up to Darwin for a week and a bit to catch up with some friends and we only spent $1200 between the two of us!! CHeap as!! That’s flights, accommodation, car hire, everything! Very cool![biggrin]
6. We bought our first IP 6 months after buying our PPOR. That was our biggeest goal. To have two properties by the end of the year and we succeeded!!! YAY!!!Next year…
1. Have new IP tenanted out to nice people, not absolute psychos…
2. Get pregnant…(Well, that’s my wish…)
3. Pump any extra cash into loan so as when it comes time to move into bigger house, the loan repayments will be a lot smaller…
4. Make time to enjoy and develop my hobbies. Fabric painting and sewing. Photography for my hubby.
5. Meet lots new people and generally enjoy our new life.That’s all from me I think.
An absolutely fabulous year for us after several years of mediocrity..
Cheers
STeph.Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
Oh I’ve similar experience Live!!
Hubby’s mum rang right at the critical moment and he picked up the phone puffing. She questioned why puffing, me cacking myself in the background listening to him explain he had ran from down the back to get the phone. Hee heee….
Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
I don’t know that there are many baby boomers doing the sea change thing in WA. There is a certain number of them, but I think there is a big shift in the young population as they go and search for the by-the-sea life.
Hubby and I did it as we couldn’t see that buying a house in PErth by the ocean was anywhere near affordabale or in a suburb we liked, so the next best thing was to move town. We settled in Geraldton and are absolutely loving it! Not just us, but I know of several young couples who have recently moved here for same reason. Affordable real estate by the beach.
From what I can gather from my folks (62 and 52yrs old), they and their friends have no intentions to move or if they do, they all want to stay in the same area but just get a smaller place. They all seem to like the fact they are close to the city and all amenities.
So I am not sure that the whole sea change idea for baby boomers is true. Certainly for a few of them, but from what I can see, they seem happy where they are or they stay in the same area, but down size.
Steph.
Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
Polar bears don’t live in the Antarctic…
Layby. Makes you think about if you really want it or NEED it, then makes you budget it out over a period of time. The good thing is, if you change your mind you only lose a few dollars!
We layby things we would like and pay them off at about $20 a week and it’s like your birthday when you pick it up. EXCITING! Bigger items well, they just have to be bought when we can afford the extra $100 a week to go on the layby.
We don’t feel peer pressure to get things at all. We are 26 and 27 and are very proud of what we have achieved in our lives and don’t give a stuff about what anyone else thinks.
My 2c.
Steph.Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
I love annoying the crap out of fast drivers like that!! IT is a little scary though on the trip down to Perth when a big semi comes hurtling up to your behind and there’s on coming traffic…. Ohh….quiver… Makes me nervous thinking about it now…
Umm… Things that annoy me.. well now, where do I start?…
When you put your singlasses or keys down they magically disappear or move themself to somewhere you would never think to look.
When your arms are full and you get an itchy nose or you start dribbling snot and then someone comes and talks to you…
Umm… Oh you are talking to your mother-in-law and you desperately need to break wind. Geez, that’s a tough one… But very annoying..
Need I say anything more?
Oh and children that say they can’t so something but they have failed to even have go at it!
Steph.
Not a bad idea about the car. But like everyone said, you can still get a nice car for around the $5K mark. The bum has fallen out of the second hand car market and you can get some really good bargains out there. The only thing I have to say (and this really comes from my dad, a mechanic) is buy a car that looks nice and has a neat and tidy interior. The engine and mechanics can always be fixed, but to panel beat something or change the interior costs a bloody fortune!
I’ve always bought a cheap car that looks nice and spent a grand on fixing it up. I then don’t have to touch it for three years with any major mechanical fix ups. Think laterally. Try government auctions too. Or repossesed auctions. Can pick up real bargains there!
Steph.
Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
