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Cake day: June 23rd, 2023

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  • The reasons our houses aren’t as well insulated comes down to climate and cost.

    Climate, people don’t die from extreme temperatures here like they do in places like Europe and North America.

    Cost, we don’t have the demand for better thermal protection so anyone who wants to improve their home has to pay.

    I’m in the process of trying to improve my home atm. I’ve had the blow in insulation replaced with batts, I’m replacing the windows with double glazing and I am trying to seal all of the gaps and vents that let out the heat. It will cost me 10’s of thousands of dollars by the time I’m finished, but it will make our house comfortable without costing us a fortune when we are retired.










  • You know you don’t have to retire at 67, that’s just the age when you’re entitled to the pension. You fucked up or had some serious bad luck if your plan is retire on the pension. My mother-in-law is on the disability pension, she can just about afford her day-to-days bills, but anything unexpected we need to take care of it.

    Assuming you aren’t a baby boomer, your superannuation should be enough to retire on, and at the moment you can get access to it at 60.

    If you have built up a level of wealth that doesn’t rely on pension or super you can retire whenever TF you want.