No one wants their house to burn, and I do feel sorry for the family, but...,
the fire was started in the two storey house by an electric go-cart. Now I am making assumptions but if you can afford a two storey house in Eltham, to breed five children and afford an electric go-kart, you can probably afford home insurance in case of fire, yet they did not have such cover. Naturally a gofundme has been set up.
At my great niece's birthday weekend before last, there were quite a few families who came along and bought their lunches and for their children. From my observations, it would have cost a couple with three children north of $150, drinks included, say a jug of Coke. My two gin and tonics cost $26, and my meal $32. It is a nice venue and the service was good, but it wasn't cheap.
With a friend whose birthday it was, we had coffee and cake and the total cost was nigh on $40, just in a cafe.
I'm not crying poor but as people moan on about the cost of living, there doesn't seem much of a sign of it affecting their spending.
While I'm on about money, just over 60 years ago Australia switched from pounds, shillings and pence to dollars and cents. This clip to educate us about dollars and cents was released by the Reserve Bank of Australia.
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Why wouldn't you have insurance on your home? It boggles the mind. Here you can't have a mortgage without proof of insurance, and I'm assuming Australia has the same rules, so what happened?
ReplyDeleteI remember the decimal changeover, but had already committed too memory the old basic unit of 12 which probably helps in adding figures up in my head, or mental arithmetic which we called it at school.
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DeleteAnyway, we had to take out home insurance before we could exchange contracts on this place, although theoretically we could just not bother to renew it now it's ours. If the house burned down there is no way we could afford the rebuild costs!