Archive for the ‘Money’ Category

How Much Do Nappies Cost?

Thursday, February 27th, 2014

It would seem a pretty straight forward question… so how much do nappies cost?

How Much Do Nappies Cost

The short answer is 1A$ a day!

… and I have the figures to prove it. I have meticulously kept a record over the last few years of my baby girls nappy usage and have come up with the following summary.

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Strategic Departure For Air Australia’s New Arrival

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011

Strategic Airlines re-Brands Itself As Air Australia But Fails In Changing From Charter To Schedule

Strategic Departure for Air Australia's ArrivalEarlier this month I had the pleasure (or rather displeasure) of flying away for a short break with fledgling airline company Strategic Airlines but returned home a few days later courtesy of the brand new outfit known as Air Australia.

The two flights were like Chalk and Cheese – they may as well have been two different airlines!

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Australian Tax Return Deadline

Monday, October 31st, 2011

Today is the DAY… for your Australian Tax Return! – Or Is It..?

Tax Return DeadlineAustralian Tax Returns for Individuals are due at the end of each Australian financial year, that is June 30th to you and me.

The ATO (Australian Tax Office) gives us a few months to get it all together and submit it to them, so that takes us up to October 31st. After this date… to quote the ATO, “..penalties apply..”. Scary stuff!

So that makes today the day for the ATO deadline for Tax Return Submissions – right? Well not necessarily, and here’s why.

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Making Ad Cents From AdSense

Tuesday, November 16th, 2010

Google Adsense

There are plenty of sites out there that’ll tell you how to make Ad Cents (money) from AdSense (Google Advertising) so I’ll spare you the rhetoric suffice to say…

  1. Write content that people are searching for.
  2. Optimize the keywords on the page.
  3. Obtain inbound links.
  4. Optimize the ads on the page.

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