no more student rates
friday night - we rocked up to the Alley bar anyway to play a game of ten pin bowling, and the band had a Mini DV camcorder (one of their friends had brought along). So I ended up filming the headline band afterall with my own tapes! Crisis kind of averted. Luckily my cam can still be used to capture the footage. I'm taking it out to a repair shop today - out in the middle of the fucking 'burbs of course. Stupid shops not being open on weekends - what a load of crap. These are the times I wished I had a car. I'm usually pretty good finding my way around via public transport - because I over-prepare, and print out maps and bus timetables and all sorts of junk. I look like a tourist fumbling with my sheets of paper, trying to read the poorly printed map.
The other day my student card FINALLY expired- even though I graduated back in 2003, I had sneakily changed my graduation date to 2005, then paid $10 for a replacement student card and then changed the date back. I remember at the time thinking 2005 sounded so long away - surely by then I would be working in a successful job and earning BULK CASH. Sure, its pretty much true, but I'm still a tight ass and adult priced bus/train tickets are such a rip! I'm tempted to keep using my student card because most times no one really looks at it too carefully, but I know that it would just be my luck to get a ticket inspector on my bus. I don't want to be an adult, paying adult prices! Its stupidly expensive. How am I supposed to ever save anything, ever buy a house/unit when everything is so expensive, and the tax man takes soooo much of our salary.
Seriously its a third of our salary- 30%! Up until $60k or so then it jumps to 42%, and heaven forbid should you ever earn over $95k- then its 47%!!! Almost half of your salary GONE in tax. ARGH!!!!
Instead of obsessing over my teeth, gum recession and fluoride in our waters, I should focus my slighty obsessive behaviour on learning more about the tax system. Its just so damn boring though, but I hate not understanding why so much of my wage is gone in tax. And if there is any way to get tax back, I want to know how.
omg i want an iMac SOOOOO badly! We've got a 17" iMac here at work, its on loan from the apple store. Its so beautiful and so powerful and speedy. Not to mention the inbuilt iSight with crazy image effects has provided hours of entertainment. *sigh* If only I could salary sacrifice a personal computer.... fingers crossed I suddenly win the lottery (which I never enter). Capturing all this footage off the camera, is making me realize I'm running low on HD space. Both on my iBook and my PC at home- so many tv shows, movies, years and years worth of digital photos, cam images, old websites, uni work, music... Not sure if I should get a dvd burner, or a portable hard-drive to store all my stuff.
The other day my student card FINALLY expired- even though I graduated back in 2003, I had sneakily changed my graduation date to 2005, then paid $10 for a replacement student card and then changed the date back. I remember at the time thinking 2005 sounded so long away - surely by then I would be working in a successful job and earning BULK CASH. Sure, its pretty much true, but I'm still a tight ass and adult priced bus/train tickets are such a rip! I'm tempted to keep using my student card because most times no one really looks at it too carefully, but I know that it would just be my luck to get a ticket inspector on my bus. I don't want to be an adult, paying adult prices! Its stupidly expensive. How am I supposed to ever save anything, ever buy a house/unit when everything is so expensive, and the tax man takes soooo much of our salary.
Seriously its a third of our salary- 30%! Up until $60k or so then it jumps to 42%, and heaven forbid should you ever earn over $95k- then its 47%!!! Almost half of your salary GONE in tax. ARGH!!!!
Instead of obsessing over my teeth, gum recession and fluoride in our waters, I should focus my slighty obsessive behaviour on learning more about the tax system. Its just so damn boring though, but I hate not understanding why so much of my wage is gone in tax. And if there is any way to get tax back, I want to know how.
omg i want an iMac SOOOOO badly! We've got a 17" iMac here at work, its on loan from the apple store. Its so beautiful and so powerful and speedy. Not to mention the inbuilt iSight with crazy image effects has provided hours of entertainment. *sigh* If only I could salary sacrifice a personal computer.... fingers crossed I suddenly win the lottery (which I never enter). Capturing all this footage off the camera, is making me realize I'm running low on HD space. Both on my iBook and my PC at home- so many tv shows, movies, years and years worth of digital photos, cam images, old websites, uni work, music... Not sure if I should get a dvd burner, or a portable hard-drive to store all my stuff.
12 Comments:
At April 04, 2006 3:02 PM, James said…
DVD burners are pretty cheap nowadays, aren't they?
Here in the States you can get a great one for less than $50, and I'm sure it's not much for in Aus.
Besides, who wouldn't want to download their favorite shows (that haven't aired there yet), stick 'em on a DVD, and watch them on the big screen?
At April 04, 2006 3:31 PM, i said…
21 Million Gold Lotto this sat night!!!! :P im putting my $6 worth of silver in :P gotta be in it to win it!
hehe
i.
At April 04, 2006 7:35 PM, Candice said…
Ha! Your cam image is humourous & disturbing at the same time..
Welcome to the world of adult fares: it's a grim place.. the only time I bus it is on the weekends when it's cheaper. As you say, working does not necessarily equal spare money for overpriced public transport!
Gawd.. I wouldn't survive without my burner: I have way too much crap. Even my mp3 player is running out of space & it's 20GB!
Hey the burbs aren't that bad you know.. we can't all be city peeps ;)
At April 04, 2006 8:33 PM, aaron said…
"Up until $60k or so then it jumps to 42%"
/me cries
As for the iMac, I am so getting a MacBook Pro soon. Salary sacrificing a laptop = win :D
I'm addicted to iPhoto now, and my iBook is just not cutting it any more. Not when I have something like 15GBs of photos on a 60GB drive, and that's just the last 12 months worth! I've also used iMovie from time to time for editing/encoding videos of cars etc, and the iBook's shortcomings are even more apparent when doing so :(
I really should start saving for a house sometime soon, I just need to break my addiction to buying tech/car bits first... :/
At April 04, 2006 8:51 PM, reanon said…
i wish i was crying because i was being taxed 42% :P alas the government only gets 30% of my salary.
yea maybe i should go the mac book pro...i am really enjoying playing with iMovie but the iBook definitely doesn't quite cut it!
At April 05, 2006 6:20 AM, Strongblade! said…
As a recent intel iMac owner, I can say that they are pretty damn sweet. I just love my 20" iMacintel.
At April 07, 2006 10:21 PM, Iris said…
I was like that until my boyfriend explained it to me. You pay 30% tax on your salary up to 60k, then if you earn over 60k you pay 30% tax up to 60k and 42% on the difference. So if you pay 100k you pay 30% on 60k, 42% on 35k and 47% on 5k. At least that's how I understand it. NOW I'm not sure if that works out as better or worse haha, too lazy to calculate.
You completely have the same music taste as me! Awesome =)
At April 08, 2006 2:24 AM, Stacy said…
You should get a dvd burner AND a portable hardrive. YUp :)
At April 09, 2006 4:41 PM, Anonymous said…
HEY SEXY GIRLLLLLLLL!!! Howz the southern hemspheres hottest little biskit? You thinkj those taxes are bad?? We get taxed avg of 30 percetn in the US but we dont get free medical care like you guys do. We dont get free school like you guys do. Your taxes are pretty low for all the free shit you guys get!!!
OZZZ rules I want to move there and get all kinds of free stuff and still get 50 percent or more of my money.
TEXAS BILL
-over worked underpaid and still not getting enough free stuff like the OOZZiedss-
At April 09, 2006 4:47 PM, Anonymous said…
WHy buy a MAc? Overpriced PC clones is all they are!! Designer label for people who must have that "oh so cache" item. Buy a PC clone for half the price and just as much or more power and use the rest of the money to buy a car!!! Except in OZ you get all sorts of free public transportation which kicks ass!!! I should sell my cars and move to OZZZ!!
I love OZZ!!!
TEXAS BILL
-smoking a Bundy Cigar-
At April 09, 2006 9:21 PM, Anonymous said…
HEY SHITFUCK BILL!
I think you have been misinformed.
Nobody is transporting my ass for free and I have almost $20k owing to the government for my so-called "education". I pay to see the doctor, to buy medicine, and extra to get treated half-decently when I have to go to hospital.
I'm not saying we've got it tough over here (because that would be stupid and very untrue), I'm just saying that it's not the fucking fantasyland you think it is.
Although, you should know that I do actually live in a house made of chocolate.
Kind regards,
RR.
At April 10, 2006 7:50 AM, reanon said…
ergh he's back.... what a dick.
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