One thing that alot of people (including myself) stress about is money.
It also breaks up alot of relationships including my Uncle and his Partner who were together for 14 years until recently.
Although i stress about this i will not let it get in the way of my relationships with my man, friends or family.
The one thing i have written a fair bit about in my blogs lately is that my Partner and i will be moving back to my home Melbourne. We have set ourselves a goal of February to do this. I think it is equally as important to have a goal aswell as the initial idea because then you have that special sense of achievment.
Out dollar value goal to do the move is $6,000. It will cost roughly $2,500 just for the bond and 1st months rent. We will also need to buy whitegoods as it costs too much to ship them over rather than buy from a second hand dealer. The other thing we have allowed for is D to be out of work for around 2 weeks. Although he will be searching before we leave most companies won't hire you until they have met you. I am luckily getting a transfer with work so will be taking paid annual leave whilst the move is happening.
The shipping container will be no more than $1,000 but you do not have to pay this until 2 weeks after you move when you get you things which helps.
I felt this goal was realistic and was pleased knowing we have saved almost $4,000 in 3 months when i have never really saved like this before ever!
I know someone who is from Melbourne, moved here and recently has moved back with her man who is also from here. I didn't want to be rude but i asked her roughly how much they saved (to get a better idea for ourselves) to move, i was ASTOUNDED when she told me her man had saved up $11,000 and she had saved $7,000! They were not paying $500 fortnightly rent like us though and would not of had the bills we unfortunately do but still, that seems like a wicked amount.
I did put into consideration they did not have any jobs at all between them when they did the move which made it harder to find a property because no company would take them seriously.
That night i did not sleep, SO SO worried, will we have enough etc. I still think we will, i said to my man if we get to $6,000 by Christmas we will just keep saving because any extra all counts.
I might result to selling some belongings to add into the kitty aswell.
Do you think my budget will be enough?....
I think $6000 is a good budget hun, so I wouldn't stress to much. Hopefully you get cash for Christmas that you can put towards it too, plus you have heaps of friends in Melb that I'm sure will help you out!
ReplyDeleteHey! I think your goal sounds like a good amount of money for a move. PT is physical training and most military guys are required to do it every morning. PTs are what you wear to do physical training.
ReplyDeleteWhat type of foods have high fructose?
ReplyDeleteIn the US they give companies discounts for using corn in their products as a way to help farmers so everything has high fructose corn syrup. Sweetend applesauce, sodas, poptarts, pancake syrup, condensed tomato soup, yogurt... thats just the stuff I ran across yesterday.
And in Aus we dont measure by ounces but by litres, how many litres is 80 ounces? Thats about 2.5 liters. You can find conversion charts all over the internet.
How do i add my blog to my facebook please?
There is an add a link button in your ststus bar. Just put your blog url in that and presto!
Actually i don't know if i want everyone on my facebook to know what i write on my blogs.... hmm
Yeah.. it can affect what you feel okay writing about.
I think that's a good chunk of change. It may not even turn out to cost that much. Just keep saving....that's all you can do!
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