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Bit of a loaded question mate. Science tells us a lack of adversity equals extinction. When you look back do you remember the challenges…

I reckon it says something that us 'junkies' and 'criminals' can buy a home and you got no hope. Maybe if you wanna live somewhere eliteist…

Check my facts? I have contracts of sale for proof? Unless you want to specify a freaken city and annual salary you're the one just talking…

Yep, this. I even suggest buying that investment property in an area you could envisage retiring to, then you can negative gear and not pay…

Yep, they did. Unless you count 40kms away as close to city, then it was six times, for a fifty year old, original un-renovated, 3 bed…

Agree, but I think the issue is people want the fancy house and all the lifestyle perks. And they think that's what homeowners in the past…

No, so you save a deposit on a $350K unit, plenty around. Then sell and upgrade when you can. The same as the rest of us home owners. Why…

No, you shouldn't. If I had a do-over I'd live in housing commission in some nice coastal suburb, remain unemployed and visit the beach…

Plus expectation of holiday, new furniture, new car, new kitchen and bathroom, pool etc. After working 2 jobs for 35 years I own my home, I…

People get a mortgage and pay it off over their lifetime, depending on a rise in income as they get older to make it one day feasible. The…

Are they lithium, and if so do they need to stay out of the heat?

I reckon the angle grinder if you really wanna butcher

If you buy using Onepass you get '365 day change of mind returns'. So can satisfy the impulse buy and buyers regret.

Deliveries don't always come from your closest store. I have to check stock at a different store when after delivery.

Cutting up all those cardboard boxes from the OzB impulse buys. ( I use mine mostly pruning in the garden).

I am well sick of shopping aps wanting SMS verification. One now requesting Captcha AND password and SMS verification. Why, so if they get…

At the point where RR really pees me off. Too many hours wasted trying to order these app only offers from an app that doesn't work. Last…

Get a broker, but don't trust them and if they are at all abrasive ditch them. They will want you on the product that gets them the most…

Would be nice.

As someone who works with HR, you overestimate HR.

If you dress right (wrong), and display the right (wrong) attitude. Both parties will object to you, you will be dismissed and never called…

Water, coffee, tea is also weird with junk food though. And Diet soft drinks seem slightly healthier than juice. esp if sugar or weight is…

You could prob save $4 and buy ingredients and cook yourself. but you'd have to eat it everyday to make it work.

The Ozbargain way was to get a muffin instead. Most of same content, much cheaper plus a slice of cheese. Hash Browns were cheap and drinks…

Is only one meal I reckon (not shared). Otherwise it would be Average Size Breakfast.

Bankstown Hotel. But the mall it's on was also very dodgy for a while.

Haven't been there for 20 years, would have been irresponsible taking a kid anywhere near it back then.

Not really, plenty of peoples would have communal sleeping areas, the whole idea of a nuclear family is a modern concept. If we look at…

Yep, just pointing things are never as shiny as they may look from a distance.

Remember the alternatives you imagine would also have had their challenges. Moving out early usually requires a flatmate(s), and there is…