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Speaker 3: She's on the Money, She's on the Money.
Speaker 2: Hello, and welcome to She's on the Money the podcast
Speaker 2: are millennials who want financial freedom. Welcome back to another
Speaker 2: one of our money diaries where I get the absolute
Speaker 2: pleasure of sitting down with one of our Shees on
Speaker 2: the Money community members to learn all about their money story.
Speaker 2: Let's jump into it, because this week I got a
Speaker 2: message and it sounded exactly like this. Hi, Victoria, I
Speaker 2: love your podcast. I have been a long term listener
Speaker 2: for a few years and thought my story may encourage
Speaker 2: someone to keep going with their financial goals. I'm now
Speaker 2: twenty seven. With some savvy savings and investments, my partner
Speaker 2: and I have been able to purchase a one point
Speaker 2: three million dollar property in Sydney at the age of
Speaker 2: twenty six with no financial help from family or friends.
Speaker 2: We've been in the property for almost a year and
Speaker 2: we couldn't be happier. I'd love to share how we
Speaker 2: did it with the community and encourage anyone who has
Speaker 2: a similar dream on their journey. Ah, money diarists, you're
Speaker 2: just coming straight in being a baller, Okay, no worries,
Speaker 2: Welcome to the show.
Speaker 4: Hi, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm so excited about this for you. Congrats on
Speaker 2: the purchase by the away.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're very happy.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I love it. All right, let's start
Speaker 2: as we always do money dives. I want to know
Speaker 2: what grade would you give your money habits on a
Speaker 2: scale from A through to F if I asked you
Speaker 2: to give them a grade?
Speaker 3: Ooh, I think I would give myself a bit of
Speaker 3: a generous aimnus.
Speaker 2: All right, that seems very good. I can't wait to
Speaker 2: learn more. My favorite question of all time, can you
Speaker 2: please tell me a little bit more about your money story?
Speaker 4: My partner and I.
Speaker 3: We've been together for about five years, and essentially when
Speaker 3: we got together, we basically had the dream of owning
Speaker 3: a family home that had a big, beautiful backyard. My partner,
Speaker 3: he's from the country, so that's what he always grew
Speaker 3: up with, and we always wanted to have a dog, essentially,
Speaker 3: and so when we met each other, the saving stream
Speaker 3: was on. We basically tried to save up as much
Speaker 3: as possible, and we first started out, we lived with
Speaker 3: a family member. We slept on a king single for
Speaker 3: about a year.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, together together. Don't recommend No, I.
Speaker 2: Can't see how that would be a recommended option.
Speaker 3: But it was just basically, we did a lot to
Speaker 3: say basically, you do what you got to do exactly,
Speaker 3: and it was just the best option for us at
Speaker 3: the time. From there, I cracked it and we moved
Speaker 3: out into a rental during COVID, and from there we
Speaker 3: were able to purchase our first property.
Speaker 4: Which was a villa.
Speaker 3: Now I would love to say that it was all
Speaker 3: savvy savings, but it definitely wasn't.
Speaker 4: My partner, he actually took one for the team.
Speaker 3: We basically have family members that work for banking and
Speaker 3: they basically told us that if you work for the
Speaker 3: bank and as long as you have been with the
Speaker 3: bank for one month, you could pay a ten percent
Speaker 3: deposit on a property and you don't have to pay ALAMAI.
Speaker 4: Yeah, my partner.
Speaker 3: At the time, he was working casually and so he
Speaker 3: needed full time income anyway, and so he sold his
Speaker 3: soul to work for a call center at one of
Speaker 3: the big banks.
Speaker 2: I don't know if that's selling his soul or being
Speaker 2: a genius.
Speaker 4: He's a genius. But he absolutely hated it.
Speaker 2: So he did definitely take one for the tea. Then
Speaker 2: if it was a role he wasn't passionate about.
Speaker 3: Definitely, I mean no hate, Like some people do love
Speaker 3: that role. I have friends who love that role. But
Speaker 3: for him, it just wasn't.
Speaker 4: A good fit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, fair, And he.
Speaker 3: Basically did that for about five months and then left. However,
Speaker 3: we bought a property almost exactly a month after he started,
Speaker 3: and then from there we were in the property for
Speaker 3: about a year where we made the very scary decision
Speaker 3: do we stay in this property or do we take
Speaker 3: the gamble to sell it. It was pretty much right
Speaker 3: at the turn of where the Russian Ukraine War was
Speaker 3: announced and it was when we had that awful weather,
Speaker 3: and so there was starting to be those feelers of
Speaker 3: that interest rates are going to rise, property prices are
Speaker 3: going to crash, and we just thought, let's sell now,
Speaker 3: make the profit and then buy a property almost straight away,
Speaker 3: our dream property, and put that down is a deposit,
Speaker 3: our profit, and that's essentially how we did it.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, you're going to have to tell me though,
Speaker 2: like we need the pervy details. You can't say we
Speaker 2: bought a villa, then we sold it. Now we have
Speaker 2: a dream property. Like this is sheese on the money.
Speaker 2: So how much did you pay for your villa? What
Speaker 2: did you sell it for?
Speaker 3: So for the villa, we bought a two bedroom, one
Speaker 3: bathroom villa in a reasonably nice suburb, and then we
Speaker 3: bought that for about eight hundred and we put a
Speaker 3: eighty thousand dollars deposit, so ten percent exactly. We basically
Speaker 3: changed up the floors, we ripped out carpet, just put
Speaker 3: down those laminate fallboards, painted the place, and then sold
Speaker 3: it a year later, I think it was thirteen months
Speaker 3: later for a million and fifty.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, you're a queen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so that was actually a record for the suburb,
Speaker 3: for the villa.
Speaker 4: We were just lucky.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, you worked for that. That's not just lucky.
Speaker 2: You bought a villa, You slipped a villa. You saw
Speaker 2: the potential, Like, I don't know what about that was luck?
Speaker 2: My friend.
Speaker 4: Thanks. I must admit it was very scary, very daunting.
Speaker 3: But the mindset we had was that, yes, the villa's
Speaker 3: going up in value, but a house will got greater
Speaker 3: in value. And so for us it was the case
Speaker 3: of we moved out a few suburbs to basically buy
Speaker 3: the house. Yeah, so we would never have been able
Speaker 3: to buy a house in the suburbs we had the villerins,
Speaker 3: so we just moved out that little bit further and
Speaker 3: for us, it's just ticked every box and we couldn't
Speaker 3: be happier.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. So you flipped it and then you
Speaker 2: mentioned before thirteen months. Now I know why you said
Speaker 2: thirteen months, But why is thirteen months important when selling
Speaker 2: a house.
Speaker 3: Well, because you have to be in the house for
Speaker 3: at least a year so that you don't have to
Speaker 3: pay capital gainstacks, because it's not clue an investment.
Speaker 2: The second you said thirteen months, I was like, This
Speaker 2: woman is savvy. She is all over it. Like the
Speaker 2: factor that you even knew to get your partner into
Speaker 2: a job where you were working for a bank so
Speaker 2: that you could do the ten percent deposit with no LMI.
Speaker 2: I was like, these guys have their brains switched on.
Speaker 2: No wonder out the gate. You're like a minus easy.
Speaker 2: There's only a very small amount of room to grow.
Speaker 2: I love this. I'm so pervy on it. So tell
Speaker 2: me about buying a one point three million dollar property.
Speaker 2: What type of deposit did you then have for the property?
Speaker 2: And like, how do you feel about it now? Given
Speaker 2: interest rate rises?
Speaker 3: So we were actually incredibly lucky. So the bank that
Speaker 3: we are with with our mortgage, we basically were able
Speaker 3: to port our loan from the past property. So basically
Speaker 3: we had about half of our mortgage is fixed and
Speaker 3: so that is fixed that a two percent interest rate
Speaker 3: until twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: Literally get wrecked.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because we were able to jo for that across
Speaker 3: and so not many banks do it, but the bank
Speaker 3: wherewith does, So it was very lucky for us. So
Speaker 3: I feel really good because when we bought our property,
Speaker 3: it was literally about six months later from when we
Speaker 3: sold our property, and so things had turned a little bit.
Speaker 3: It was just after the peak in property prices in Sydney,
Speaker 3: and essentially we just had the mindset of, all right,
Speaker 3: we got twenty percent deposit.
Speaker 4: We either do it now or we wait and see
Speaker 4: what happens.
Speaker 3: I just had a gut feeling that Sydney prices never
Speaker 3: really stay down for long.
Speaker 2: No, they don't.
Speaker 4: And I knew immigration was going to open again.
Speaker 3: I knew things were going to happen, and so I'm
Speaker 3: very lucky that my partner said go for it. I
Speaker 3: trust you, and we just found the right property and
Speaker 3: it all basically just fell into place.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I love this so much. And now
Speaker 2: you're in more than a million dollars worth of debt.
Speaker 2: Tell me what that feels like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a million and fifty. Honestly, it is scary. However,
Speaker 3: I think we came at it with a very good
Speaker 3: mindset where we budgeted very well, knowing what each of
Speaker 3: our salaries are, and we.
Speaker 4: Basically planned for worst case scenario.
Speaker 3: Ye great, So I work in sales where a lot
Speaker 3: of my income is commission, and so we didn't count
Speaker 3: any of that commission when buying the property. And we
Speaker 3: ensured that we had quite a significant buffer per month
Speaker 3: to put straight into savings for things like car regio
Speaker 3: or council rates or something like that. We made sure
Speaker 3: we had a certain amount of money to buffer all
Speaker 3: of that, including Christmas presents, birthdays.
Speaker 4: You don't know what could come?
Speaker 1: Ye?
Speaker 2: Great, I feel like that is, you know, a perfect
Speaker 2: time to ask my next question, because you said we
Speaker 2: really thought about our salaries. Tell me what those salaries are,
Speaker 2: how much do you earn? And what is your job?
Speaker 3: So as a whole, my partner here is on about
Speaker 3: just under seventy And for myself it does fluctuate again
Speaker 3: because I work in sales, and I work in sales
Speaker 3: in the health industry, and so last year I took
Speaker 3: home about one hundred and sixty.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, how did you get into sales in
Speaker 2: the health industry? And tell me a bit more about
Speaker 2: the actual breakdown of your role because obviously some of
Speaker 2: that is going to be made up of commission.
Speaker 3: Yes, So I got into it basically straight out of UNI.
Speaker 3: I didn't know what I wanted to do, So I
Speaker 3: actually got into one of the lower pharmaceutical sales. Hated
Speaker 3: it left that eighty months later and just got really
Speaker 3: lucky with this role that came up. But it just
Speaker 3: seemed to be the perfect fit for me, and ever since,
Speaker 3: there's just been climbing as demand for the job. It's
Speaker 3: great because I'll never lose a job because everyone needs health, right.
Speaker 2: I love that smart woman.
Speaker 4: And so if we.
Speaker 3: Break down my salary, it's about one hundred and seven,
Speaker 3: which is my base, and then I get a fifteen
Speaker 3: K car allowance, and then the remainder is commission where
Speaker 3: if you hit one hundred percent of target per quarter
Speaker 3: you get about ten thousand.
Speaker 2: That is very exciting. I feel like that would motivate
Speaker 2: me a lot. Do you find yourself, especially working in sales,
Speaker 2: really motivated by that big goal, like every quarter being
Speaker 2: like if I do this and I, you know, really
Speaker 2: slogged it at work, I'm going to smash it. Or
Speaker 2: you maybe not as motivated by that.
Speaker 3: My personality, I'm very goal orientated, So sales was the
Speaker 3: perfect role for me. I love having something to work towards,
Speaker 3: and essentially, again even in my personal life, that's how
Speaker 3: we are where we are now. It's because I have
Speaker 3: a goal and essentially I like to budget and work
Speaker 3: out the parameters to achieve it.
Speaker 4: So I find it motivating.
Speaker 2: I love it all right, Well, tell me a bit
Speaker 2: more about your big money goals. You've got the house,
Speaker 2: you've bought the dream house, you're in a million dollars
Speaker 2: worth of debt. What are your other goals and what
Speaker 2: are we working towards at the moment.
Speaker 3: So there's a few things I'm working towards, but probably
Speaker 3: one of the big things I'm working towards is a wedding.
Speaker 3: My partner and I would love to get married at
Speaker 3: the next few year, but also we're trying to get
Speaker 3: ourselves set up for kids. Yeah, childcare is incredibly expensive.
Speaker 3: Maternity leave is also quite expensive, and so we want
Speaker 3: to make sure we have a big enough buffer that
Speaker 3: we're not in financial strains when that time comes.
Speaker 2: I adore this. I have a question, Are you engaged
Speaker 2: at the moment?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: No, no, no, not a bad question. I was talking
Speaker 2: about marriage with my partner and we moved in together
Speaker 2: and we bought a house way before we got married.
Speaker 2: And I always find it an interesting conversation because the
Speaker 2: other day I was talking to a girlfriend and she
Speaker 2: was like, Oh, I wish I was getting married soon.
Speaker 2: And I was like, oh, like, do you talk about it?
Speaker 2: And she's like, no, I'd never mention it. I don't
Speaker 2: want him to think that I'm putting any pressure on.
Speaker 2: And I was like, I don't think I put pressure on.
Speaker 2: But also I was quite clear, like if we buy
Speaker 2: a house, I do want to get married, I do
Speaker 2: want to have kids. These are my goals. What time
Speaker 2: frame are you thinking? Like what works for you? How
Speaker 2: have you had these conversations with your partner?
Speaker 3: And oh, we're exactly the same. Yeah, we have a house.
Speaker 3: So it's all about honest communication, openness. We talk about
Speaker 3: it quite a lot. And for us, even though we
Speaker 3: want to get married right now, financially, we know it's
Speaker 3: not the right time and so it doesn't change anything marriage.
Speaker 3: We're committed to each other. And again, we've got a house,
Speaker 3: we've got a dog, we've got it all. So for us,
Speaker 3: it's just when we're financially ready, that's when we'll do it.
Speaker 2: I love that conversation. I also want to ask a
Speaker 2: really perfect question because you mentioned that your partner earns
Speaker 2: just under seventy grand but you're in like one sixty.
Speaker 2: Who's paying for the ring?
Speaker 3: We have a joint account. We've each got our own
Speaker 3: accounts and we each put a specific amount of money
Speaker 3: into that account per month. So we've had the discussion
Speaker 3: that when it does come time, the money is just
Speaker 3: going to come from the joint account. Of what's going
Speaker 3: to be the surprise is when he asks me, not
Speaker 3: the fact that we're getting engaged.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I love this. Also, like nice for him
Speaker 2: to have a sure thing like yea, he knows you're
Speaker 2: going to say yes, Like surely that will make you nervous.
Speaker 2: I was talking to my now husband about that, and
Speaker 2: I was like, why were you so nervous when you proposed?
Speaker 2: Like you knew that I was going to say yeah,
Speaker 2: Like you knew this is what I wanted. And he
Speaker 2: was just like I don't even know, Like what if
Speaker 2: you changed your mind?
Speaker 3: But what happens if you don't like the ring? I
Speaker 3: think that's the biggest nerdiness.
Speaker 2: To be honest, I didn't even care. I was just
Speaker 2: so happy to get a ring, and now I love
Speaker 2: my ring. But I just couldn't care less. Like I
Speaker 2: remember a couple of friends chatting to me and being like, well,
Speaker 2: if I don't get this ring, like I won't be happy.
Speaker 2: I was like, May I would have a tinfoil ring
Speaker 2: and I would be so happy with that, Like it
Speaker 2: really did not worry me.
Speaker 3: Do you know what that makes me think of? What
Speaker 3: Taylor Swift paper rings?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I would have taken a paper ring.
Speaker 1: Easy.
Speaker 4: Easy.
Speaker 2: I've already asked for a necklace with his initials to
Speaker 2: go around my neck because I'm swifty at heart. But
Speaker 2: that is okay, even if he says that's really lame.
Speaker 2: Who even does that you're in your thirties. I'm like,
Speaker 2: it's not the point, it's not, it's not the point.
Speaker 2: Talk to me a little bit more about I guess
Speaker 2: weddings and planning that. Obviously, you seem from my perspective
Speaker 2: to really be across the finances in your life. Have
Speaker 2: you discussed what type of wedding and what type of
Speaker 2: budget you'd be looking at?
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely, so each to their own. My partner and
Speaker 3: I we don't think there's great value in having a
Speaker 3: very expensive wedding because it's one day of your life.
Speaker 3: And so for us, my parents have offered to give
Speaker 3: us finances for a.
Speaker 4: Portion of the wedding.
Speaker 2: Oh how nice.
Speaker 3: We don't want to really put up more than about
Speaker 3: ten thousand, Oh my god, and then my parents will
Speaker 3: put up about thirty and.
Speaker 4: For us, that's plenty for a wedding.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, that's so much money.
Speaker 4: Yes, but technically that's less than the average.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I remember having these conversations prior to getting engaged.
Speaker 2: We would talk about what a wedding would cost, what
Speaker 2: type of wedding my partner wanted versus me, and I
Speaker 2: would have honestly been very happy. All I cared about
Speaker 2: was good food. So I was like, I don't care
Speaker 2: if we go to a registry and then we go
Speaker 2: to a beautiful restaurant and have like a very fancy
Speaker 2: dinner with like our favorite friends, like call it ten
Speaker 2: or fifteen of them. Like, that's, in my head, the
Speaker 2: most romantic wedding ever. But my husband is a member
Speaker 2: of a soccer club and has been since he was tiny. Obviously,
Speaker 2: that was never going to fit the brief that I had.
Speaker 2: So we compromised and had good food in a really
Speaker 2: big wedding, which was not a compromise. It was a
Speaker 2: very very large financial outlay, but I don't regret it.
Speaker 2: It was one of those things where we had those
Speaker 2: open conversations at the beginning, and I think my partner
Speaker 2: came to the realization. He was like, holy moley, Like,
Speaker 2: I have met a woman that does not want a
Speaker 2: massive wedding, and well, it's funny you say that you're
Speaker 2: the oppice, are you.
Speaker 3: I would love to Elope hire a photographer because that's
Speaker 3: what's important to me, is just photos, because that's how
Speaker 3: you're going to remember it in so many years.
Speaker 4: But he wants a big party.
Speaker 3: We both thought, well, let's compromise. Let's just do the
Speaker 3: big party. Why not, Like you only get married once,
Speaker 3: but we want to do it country style, so we
Speaker 3: want it to be super relaxed, good music, and just
Speaker 3: everyone just get drunk.
Speaker 2: Yep. Great, ten out of ten. Everyone at that wedding
Speaker 2: is going to have a brilliant time. I can't wait
Speaker 2: to hear about it. All right, let's go to a
Speaker 2: quick break and we'll get back into the money questions
Speaker 2: right after this. All right, money diarist, We are back,
Speaker 2: and I am adoring the conversation that we are having.
Speaker 2: But I want to know, do you have any investments?
Speaker 2: If so, what are they? If not, do you have
Speaker 2: plans to invest?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: So when it comes to investments together.
Speaker 3: My partner and I we have about ten thousand in
Speaker 3: stocks and that's about it.
Speaker 4: And then super, how.
Speaker 2: Did you decide where to invest your ten thousand dollars
Speaker 2: in shares?
Speaker 3: So very honestly, I don't have an interest in the
Speaker 3: stock market, That's fair. I left it to my partner.
Speaker 3: Whatever he wanted to invest in or what he felt
Speaker 3: passionate about, I just let him do it, and I
Speaker 3: trusted him.
Speaker 2: Love that for you, all right? I want to know
Speaker 2: now we know about your one million and fifty thousand
Speaker 2: dollars mortgage, bud, do you have any other debts? If so,
Speaker 2: what are they.
Speaker 3: The only other debt we have is my partner's hexteded
Speaker 3: and that's about twenty five thousand.
Speaker 2: Do you have a plan to smash that out? Or
Speaker 2: are we leaving that as is in just ticking away
Speaker 2: or is there a plan in place at all?
Speaker 4: We have a plan in place.
Speaker 3: This financial year, right before they added the interest to it,
Speaker 3: we smashed out about ten thousand, and so we're going
Speaker 3: to basically keep smashing out hopefully roughly that same amount
Speaker 3: each year until it's gone.
Speaker 2: Do you have a spreadsheet? Do you track all this?
Speaker 2: I feel like it'd be the sexies spreadsheet I've seen
Speaker 2: in my life.
Speaker 4: I like nothing, Absolutely no.
Speaker 2: I'm going to fix that. I will give you my
Speaker 2: budgeting a cash flow master class, and you can go
Speaker 2: and do that, and I feel like you'll be even
Speaker 2: more in control. Maybe that's what it's going to take
Speaker 2: you from an as twinter a plus. But I want
Speaker 2: to know now because I feel like you've got a
Speaker 2: number of them. What is your best money habit?
Speaker 3: Best money habit budgeting? As soon as money comes into account.
Speaker 2: But you don't even track it, what are you doing?
Speaker 2: How do you budget without a spreadsheet?
Speaker 4: I'm so confused all in my head.
Speaker 3: We figure it out, like we sit down together, we
Speaker 3: write everything up and basically we go from there. So
Speaker 3: we have a certain amount of accounts. You know, money
Speaker 3: for the groceries goes into X, Y and Z, money
Speaker 3: for et cetera. Bills goes into X, Y and Z,
Speaker 3: and we don't then don't touch our savings and we've
Speaker 3: got the offset, so any additional money just goes straight there.
Speaker 2: I love that. So how do you split expenses between
Speaker 2: you and your partner? Given you have different incomes?
Speaker 3: So for us income it doesn't matter. So we basically
Speaker 3: split based on what we earn. So because I earn
Speaker 3: a significantly more, I pay more and I'm more than
Speaker 3: happy to do that because he pays for things and
Speaker 3: other ways.
Speaker 2: I love this because obviously, if you've listened to my
Speaker 2: podcasts and know the show and very much about percentage
Speaker 2: based equity in a relationship, because obviously there's going to
Speaker 2: be a very significant difference between someone earning about seventy
Speaker 2: grand and someone earning about one hundred and sixty thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: You're going to have so much more financial freedom than
Speaker 2: he does to make decisions and go on holidays and
Speaker 2: you even just eat out or grab an extra coffee.
Speaker 2: How did this conversation come up when you got together?
Speaker 2: And was there ever any friction around that or was
Speaker 2: it just always a like, yep, we'll just split it
Speaker 2: via percentage, Like how did you have this chat?
Speaker 3: I guess for us, my partner and I basically when
Speaker 3: we got together, probably about a year and time we
Speaker 3: just knew we'd be together long term.
Speaker 4: It was very organic.
Speaker 3: I'm a very upfront person, so I'll just say it
Speaker 3: and I'll just wear my heart in my sleeve, and
Speaker 3: my partner He's incredibly supportive, and he loves the fact
Speaker 3: that I earned so much. He's like, you're a girl boss.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 2: I would too. It's actually epic, and.
Speaker 3: So for us, it was just a case of all right,
Speaker 3: what do we both feel comfortable with and what do
Speaker 3: we both agree is fair, and that's how we did it.
Speaker 2: I love that you got to have that open, honest conversation.
Speaker 2: I don't want to stereotype here, but I feel like
Speaker 2: often men cannot be that comfortable with having a conversation
Speaker 2: when the female is the breadwinner, because obviously they could
Speaker 2: feel inferior. They shouldn't because it's got absolutely nothing to
Speaker 2: do with that and money doesn't define you. But I
Speaker 2: just think that that conversation is interesting to ask questions
Speaker 2: about because sometimes it comes up that it was harder
Speaker 2: they had to get over something. But I love that
Speaker 2: he was just like, yeah, straight out the gate, that's sweet.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's incredibly supportive.
Speaker 2: You mentioned earlier in the episode that you know, you've
Speaker 2: got a house and you've got a dog, But the
Speaker 2: reality is you can only say that because you've got
Speaker 2: a dog like two days ago. Right, So this snoring
Speaker 2: that maybe people could hear in the background. Who's that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so this is our new little puppy, a new
Speaker 3: addition to the family.
Speaker 2: And she's just napping on your lap and I get
Speaker 2: to see her. It's so sweet. But if anybody hears
Speaker 2: any little puppy snores, that's where they're coming from, because
Speaker 2: we don't want to put her in another room. Money, darist,
Speaker 2: I have another question for you. I want to know.
Speaker 2: We did what your best money habit was, which was budgeting,
Speaker 2: But what's your worst money habit.
Speaker 4: I think it's, you know, a two started coin.
Speaker 3: I think the worst money habit I have is that
Speaker 3: sometimes I can budget too much, and so I don't
Speaker 3: let myself just enjoy things sometimes. So for instance, like
Speaker 3: I'll go out to a club or something with some
Speaker 3: friends and my partner, and in my head, I've got
Speaker 3: a budget of I'm only spending this amount, and so
Speaker 3: then I don't let myself have an extra drink here
Speaker 3: and there. And this is where my partner comes in
Speaker 3: and he's very much like, Babe, it's gonna be okay,
Speaker 3: Like we're fine.
Speaker 2: You can have another drink, we can stay out another hour.
Speaker 2: You're having a really good time going.
Speaker 4: Exactly the worst.
Speaker 3: So budgeting for me, it's great I do it, but
Speaker 3: it can also be my own worst enemy.
Speaker 2: All right, money dirist. At the start of this episode,
Speaker 2: you said I'm an A mins. Can you talk me
Speaker 2: through why you think you're an A minus? And then
Speaker 2: if after our conversation, would you change it or would
Speaker 2: you keep it as is?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: So the reason why I said a minus is because, yes,
Speaker 3: we've accomplished so much, but you know, we still do
Speaker 3: have a significant amount of debt. There's still things we're
Speaker 3: working to achieve, and there's always things to learn. You know,
Speaker 3: I don't know everything. There's definitely things I would like
Speaker 3: to learn regarding you know, tax back, more about investing
Speaker 3: in shares for myself. But also one thing that I
Speaker 3: really really want to get in to start doing and
Speaker 3: making it a better habit is starting to salary sacrifice
Speaker 3: for my super It's not something I've done in the past,
Speaker 3: even though everyone says I need to. And so that's
Speaker 3: why I would give myself an A minus. Is that
Speaker 3: yet I feel like I've done so well, but there's
Speaker 3: still more I.
Speaker 4: Could be doing.
Speaker 2: I couldn't agree with you more Like, as much as
Speaker 2: you're saying there's more I'm like, you're killing it. Like
Speaker 2: you have such a good income, you've got to create
Speaker 2: such good financial security long term. You've got a puppy,
Speaker 2: You've bought your dream house, Like, oh my gosh, I'm
Speaker 2: just so excited about it. I wish we had so
Speaker 2: much more time to chat, but unfortunately that is all
Speaker 2: we had time for today, Money Diarist, it has been
Speaker 2: an absolute pleasure. Thank you so much for sharing so
Speaker 2: much of yourself and your story for us to learn
Speaker 2: from here today. I love it no ways.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
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