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Welcome To Polite Island

May 17, 2013 in Entertainment, Featured, Fiction, Food & Recipes, Lifestyle, Money, People, Society, Stories, Travel

Welcome to Polite Island! You have been selected to live in this modern utopia because you embody the values of a considerate unselfish person. Polite Island was founded by a woman who was becoming increasingly frustrated with her considerate behaviour being met with inconsiderate behaviour. Instead of giving up on being a polite person and falling into pit of selfishness she came up with a plan to make the world fairer. Instead of eradicating those devoted only to themselves and who frequently engage in behaviours that can be classed as ‘douchebaggery’ we have simply excluded them from our society. This [...]

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Secrets to Success from Sir Richard Branson

May 15, 2013 in Books, Celebrity, Entertainment, Featured, Lifestyle, Money, Work

He’s one of the richest men in the world, owns a bevy of successful companies, is known for outrageous PR stunts (stiff competition in his undies, apparently) and he’s going to space for God’s sake. So how does Sir Richard Branson manage, in the flesh, to be so completely unimpressive? Some might call it unassuming or down-to-earth, as though he’s just an ordinary guy untouched by fame and wealth (or a man with nothing left to prove). And he is all of those things. But he’s also just plain unimpressive – in the most compelling way possible. I was expecting [...]

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So Boring It Should Be Free

March 15, 2013 in Home, Lifestyle, Money

There are some things in life so boring they should be free. They’re so boring, inconsequential and essential I had just assumed they came with the house until I was setting up a house of my own and realised, to my dismay, we actually had to buy these things. I’m sure you know the kind of things I’m talking about. Things like pegs and laundry baskets. Coat hangers and plugs. Plugs! Surely plugs just come with the sinks, right? Then to add insult to injury, you can’t take your sink to the shop to find out what size plug you need. And [...]

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How Do You Do Pocket Money?

March 14, 2013 in Children, Finance, Lifestyle, Money, Parenting

Way back in the Christmas holidays, I started pondering the subject of pocket money. I have two boys, 5 and 8, and the subject of pocket money had come up now and then, but never seriously. As my youngest was about to start school for the first time, and my older child got old enough to be able to save for things, I resolved to make a decision on the subject before school started. I thought I’d share my thinking process with you all, as some of my friends found it helpful to think about too. I opened up the [...]

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Random Acts of Kindness or Random Acts of Self-Promotion?

March 12, 2013 in Friendship, Lifestyle, Money, People, Society

The idea of random acts of kindness is a good one. Wikipedia defines a random act of kindness as “a selfless act performed by a person or people wishing to either assist or cheer up an individual person or people.” Further to that, being selfless is defined as being motivated to act without concern for oneself. I really like that idea. I like that fact that you just do something with the intention of just helping. But there is something with the random acts of kindness that really gets my goat. It’s when people use random acts of kindness as [...]

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Want The Best and Brightest to be Teachers? Pay Them More!

March 11, 2013 in Children, Current Affairs, Lifestyle, Money, News, Politics, Work

The NSW Government are intending to introduce tough new tests to ensure only the best and the brightest get in to university to study teaching. Many issues have been raised around this including the fact that the skills required to get a high score on a test aren’t necessarily the skills needed to be the best teacher in the classroom. There we agree. But when it comes to tests being the way to get the best and the brightest, I completely disagree. To me, the easiest way to get the best and the brightest in the teaching profession is to [...]

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Wealth Distribution, Inequality and Sadness

March 8, 2013 in Current Affairs, Finance, Home, Human Rights, Lifestyle, Money, News, People, Politics, Self, Society, Work

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about money. I hate money. I hate it with an absolute passion. As a child I wanted to be rich, purely because I didn’t ever want to have to think about money. I just wanted it to be there when I wanted it and never have to worry about it again. I’ve reached a point now where even that would not be enough. I would need to be completely, totally, stinking rich, so not only could I not think about money but I could give most of it away to others without it mattering [...]

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Telemarketers, Charity Muggers and the Fall of Polite Society

March 5, 2013 in Health, Home, Lifestyle, Money, Work

I am on the no call list which means these days if I get a telemarketing call it is either from a charity or a scam. I love telling some criminal phone call worker that I have an Apple when he tells me he got a distress call from my windows computer. But the fact that most telemarketers these days are criminals is not why I hate them, I hate them for what they were before that, and how they made me, and I am sure countless others, ruder. First, they invade the sanctity of your home. I am sitting [...]

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Why Good Customer Service Is Important

January 25, 2013 in Lifestyle, Money, Self

Apart from the “be more active and eat healthy” new years resolutions everyone seems to make, another common one people make is to save more, cut down on spending and be in a better financial position. Right? We download budgeting apps to our phones or tablets, read as many things as we can about cutting back costs and say no to some social gatherings so that we can save an extra few dollars. Another thing we do is try to find out if there are things we can be paying less for. How do I know this? That’s what I’ve [...]

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8 Tips for Living Below Your Means

January 14, 2013 in Finance, Lifestyle, Money

Recently I received a comment referring to a post I ran on Confessions about a year ago about living below your means. The comment said: Hi Miss T…about a year ago you wrote a piece about living below your means. I liked this bit of advice very much and I wanted to share with you that from then till now I have managed to save $14,000. I know !!!! $14,000. I opened an account that is joined to my everyday account but I can’t withdraw money from it or I miss out on the interest that it pays, which really [...]

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