The house swap rollercoaster

It took us 2 years and 51 open homes before we brought a house.

It’s not that we were overly fussy, it’s just that most houses on the market are over priced and it takes quite some time before the house sellers wake up, and lower their expectations (by then most buyers have lost interest).

But after the elation of buying that new house, and the initial temptation to spend lavishly, comes the reality of a morgage which takes a sizeable chunk out of your weekly pay packet.

Our plan here was to focus on that morgage and eradicate it in much the same way as you would deal with cancer -just deal with it.

That means tightening your belt and getting those morgage payments smaller.

The last part of our plan was to sell our old house -quickly.

This means putting a realistic price on it from the beginning. it may be tempting to nudge it up a bit just to get a little more, but the problem here is that it will take longer to sell, and you are throwing money at a morgage in the meantime.

Those interest only morgage payments just ‘disappear’ , never to be seen by you again.

Eventually someone offered to buy our old house, so we accepted their price and impatiently waited for settlement day, (when all the money gets sorted out)

It’s like a great weight comes off your shoulders!

Video- Homeschool Family visits woke library

Lessons from covid hysteria

Civilisation is fragile, mass hysteria causes all sort of crazy stuff to happen.

Forever isn’t actually forever it seems, people move on, often without any reflection of their past actions.

A belief in God, a solid set of values, or just plain scepticism helped a lot of people see thru the scamdemic from the beginning.

There’s no telling who will crack when pressure is applied. Some that I thought were strong, lost the plot, others that looked weak and nervous held it together.

My 4th year with WordPress

Four years ago, the world was a different place.

New Zealand had decided to go to war against covid!

Covid propaganda was everywhere, and anyone questioning the narrative voices were silenced.
It was certainly a lesson of how 1940’s Germany came about, and how it could have been much worse, if it wasn’t for people standing up against the mandates.

(it’s notable that the killings started in Germany after opposition voices either gave up or were silenced somehow.)

It was a pretty dark time, and you simply lived day to day.

Nothing could be relied on -freedom of travel, the ability to go to work, pay the morgage, schools could, (and did) close at the drop of a hat.
I remember the relentless pressure to get vaccinated and still get routinely tested anyway. (I still don’t get the logic of that) , every radio would be blaring out ad’s every 5 minutes about covid. The ad’s were always very emotive and were changed every week or so.
Facebook in particular were been censored (The Government had access to facebook)

I could go on, but I’m sure you get the picture by now.

I wanted to record those times as accurately as I could, hence the reason for this blog.

A depressing moment for me, was how a police officer just dragged the NZ flag on the ground, after taking it off an anti-mandate protester at Wellington.

New Zealand today is a totally different place, hence this blog is now more about my life’s journey than anything else.

I can’t see myself closing this blog though, even if I have nothing interesting to write about, because I want to keep the memories of those times alive, least we forget, and make the same mistakes again.