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    Quote Originally Posted by bb1 View Post
    X2 - Money is nothing in comparison
    haven't you been keeping up MONEY is nothing anyway it's just an illusion
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    Making money is just a game as happymowin shows, When I was working for a landscaper the tradies were getting paid $22 an hour and one them travelled one hour each day to meet at the bosses house, I had nowhere near the skills of these guys its an outrage getting paid peanuts like that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bb1 View Post
    X2 - Money is nothing in comparison
    Exactly. I don't think anyone has said that you have to choose. But IF I had to choose between the "illusion" of money and the "reality" of family, I will take family each and every time. To use a non illusionary, though hypothetical example.....I promise to take my boys to see the wiggles one day which would probably set me back a couple of hundred. Some client rings at the last minute and wants their garden tidied up because they have a wedding on and offer to pay quite generously. I personally would not even consider working and missing seeing the smiles on those boys faces. Money is an illusion after all and I can always conjure more when I need it.

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    actually, the more money i make, the less i work, so hence the more time i spend with my family.

    i dont equate money to happiness - i earn enough to pay the bills and save some, then i take it easy

    i see this as insurance against wearing my body out prematurely, getting white finger disease, bad back, bad hips etc etc etc

    and i reckon my way ensures theres plenty of work left around for others to make a buck too.

    could i employ 3 guys and be a millionaire before im 50? probably, but then i would have more money but less time, and less time with the family (as well as more headaches, stress and all that) - my way, those 3 guys can have their own business and reap the rewards i do if they choose - i "leave some salt on the plate"


    atm i work 730/8 am to 1030/1130 am, then come home for a break, talk to the wife, take it easy.

    sure i worked saturday morning this week, but i had anzac day AND friday off. swings and roundabouts.

    the kids come home at 3pm, i help them start their homework, feed them etc, then i toddle back to work at about 4/430 until 530/630 (depending on when it gets dark)

    then i come home have dinner with them, help put them to bed etc.


    as i make more money i will keep cutting down how many hours and days a week i work

    eventually as the kids leave home (another 10 yrs) , i intend to cut back to 3 days a week - could one of those days be saturday - yes, if it suits ME


    my dream is to become a beer money bob

    ahhh that'd be the life, just having to mow to earn enough to pay for my beer.


    ahhh, the serenity


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    Quote....
    "I also laugh when people say they prefer to have lifestyle over money... What a stupid statement... "

    a fine example of a stupid statement right there




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    Quote Originally Posted by Redeye View Post
    Quote....
    "I also laugh when people say they prefer to have lifestyle over money... What a stupid statement... "

    a fine example of a stupid statement right there
    At least you get a laugh mate..

    Hows it all going? things settled down a bit?
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    2nd one in 2 months - must be a dodgy mix of cast
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    I see you got the wiring fixed on the trailer...
    You dont like speed feed heads mate??
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    See you got the Sharkies sticker in the shot
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    Quote Originally Posted by AJD Mowing View Post
    See you got the Sharkies sticker in the shot
    I'd love to put a Cowboys sticker on mine, but it might look out of place on a mowing trailer?

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    Quote Originally Posted by edbeek View Post
    I'd love to put a Cowboys sticker on mine, but it might look out of place on a mowing trailer?
    LOL your in the right area for a Cowboys sticker edbeek

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    Quote Originally Posted by AJD Mowing View Post
    I see you got the wiring fixed on the trailer...
    You dont like speed feed heads mate??
    don't like any of the plastic ones, I use 3.3 which doesn't feed real well with the bumpheads




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    Quote Originally Posted by Redeye View Post
    don't like any of the plastic ones, I use 3.3 which doesn't feed real well with the bumpheads
    You must have thick grass down there using 3.3... Is that because of the sandy soil??

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    Thick damp Blue Cooch
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    Hey Courty don't complain mate your in a great area.. Well apart from not having green bins
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