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Just put this into google - What mobile providers is Australia allow you to get free texts when overseas without a roaming option.

Im sure we got texts when on Kogan overseas, part of Vodafone. And the wifi calling also was handy to receive calls from people in Aus.

I realised I had in in 2014. I say realised as you never know when or if you always had it. This was before it had a name and before the…

Maybe I was not clear - I am an apple user (since 2013 anyway). I am also a techie, and work in IT. Was android and even MS phones before…

I dont get this - over 10 years ago I sampled loads of bits of tracks and uploaded to my iphone and the wifes and we use them for different…

I pay for a service called ‘gomailify’. They say they will have a backend process that goes the same thing before the three months are…

I am travelling through Europe with an 14 standard at the moment and there have been many shots i missed where the 8x optical zoom in the…

Your route will decide that. We have an EV and for 99% its just charged off our normal plug in garage at 6c/kw between 0000-0600. The odd…

We do have shares. Hence dividends. We have a thirds rule, third shares, third cash me and third cash wife. We don’t pay any tax and…

We are very semi retired (due to health issues, ages 57,54), and live off the interest from savings from the wife and I that both have…

AGL, qld.

Re Tesla insurance, it’s def location/person based. I paid 1150. When car shopping, the Rav4 was gonna be 950. So 200 bucks extra. I have…

I use the cba app budget. Which helps keep on track and it can ‘read’ all our cards. And it tallies up the ‘average’ over the…

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We separate the monthly day to day running costs from the holidays and the budget to ‘replace stuff that breaks’, as that is not a…

Follow the lean fire reddit subreddit. I retired in 2015, I’m 56 now. Can’t access our super for another 4 years. A nice spreadsheet I…

My 75 inch TV uses 250 watts on default config. As I am retired I watch a load of TV a day. Likely 8-12 hours. I turn the brightness down…

Link was not unique. I did not see $40 in account on signup? It Asked to transfer money, i sent $10. So do I just have to spend some and…

I did a good spreadsheet of costs when I was thinking of an ev. We just use the standard 10a. And ONLY charge from midnight to 6am on the…

I’m 56 and due to a stroke stopped my normal work a few years back. Current balances 351k in super. We are Living off another 350k of…

Our old fridge was faulty. Going hot and back to cold. We had a month of complaining about the milk before I put a smart thermometer in…

I still get the 49c feed in tariff until mid 2026. No bills still. No point in looking at batteries until then for me. Plus I only have 6kw…

Had a plumbed in fridge that sheared off in their attachment. Clearly faulty. Fischer and Paykel paid for all the repairs. Said they had…

Wife needs heated seats which pushes us into top end levels or any car. I did a spreadsheet for staying with our current one (Subaru but…

You could buy a Skype number and some Skype credit for inbound calls.

In 2012 mine were installed. Installer put 6kw of panels up for the 5kw inverter (Aurora). So with the loss in age, I still see almost 5kw.…

If you’re a bit of a techie, then the UniFi range of stuff is great, and one console to rule them all, seeing as you already have one bit…

I installed LibreOffice. So far it’s opened and saved all my stuff and no complaints from the docs I have sent to office users. I only…

The wife has back and hip issues and since we had heated heats about 4 cars ago she now requires heated seats in any car we get. That…

Had a similar thing years back. The NBN installer said blocked, and I allowed then to cut some of the gyprock on the other side of the NBN…