Meeting Milestones

Payday is a great day in anyone's book, but I get particularly excited every fortnight these days because it means I'm putting another chunk into our joint savings account and slowing chipping away at the end goal- a home deposit.
Recently Steve and I discussed what we should do to celebrate as we reached the big savings milestones. And while the idea of going away for the weekend or buying ourselves something nice all sounded like great ideas, we must admit it sounded a bit counter-intuitive celebrating saving by spending. But Steve being the genius that he is decided perhaps we make a small investment in a case of wine from a winery we visited during our Christmas road trip through the Barossa Valley to Melbourne.
This week the case of Langmeil Orphan Bank Shiraz arrived!

And mark the milestones with a couple of simple labels!

Every ten thousand dollars we get to drink! It's like a really fun drinking game!

We are approximately 3 weeks off from popping the cork on the first bottle!

Blog Debut

"Write what you know"- well after changing careers 9 months ago and 'throwing' away my career as a television reporter, these days I'm not too sure what I know. But at 25 call it a quarter-life crisis, I'm more determined than ever to figure out what I want and why. 

I've moved back home with my mother and carted my incredibly patient boyfriend with me in the hopes of saving money and buying a house. We've given ourselves 12 months to save like crazy people, with an exit strategy at Christmas after 8 months if the plan doesn't go- well, according to plan. 

We want to buy our first house together- a massive step for a moral minded me who knows too well what can happen if things go pear shaped without a pear-shape cut diamond as security. We're aiming to buy a renovator- DIY with a touch of TLC- within 10kms of the CBD- to flip within 5 years to buy another, and then another. 

And with that in mind- I've been feverishly researching and investigation locations, reading up on all the hot places and how to renovate to make a profit in the hopes when we're ready in 12 months I'll be a renovating genius. 

I'll share my thoughts, plans, dreams and projects along the way- and maybe, just maybe you'll learn a thing or two as well.