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Avocado Toast is the New Australian Dream (And That's Fine With Me)

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I next to never eat out or pay for takeaway coffee or avocado toast so could someone please explain to me why at the same age Tim Gurner bought a house, I CAN'T AFFORD ONEASDFGHJK?! Australian millionaire Tim Gurner has some advice, "When I was trying to buy my first home, I wasn't buying smashed avocado for $19 and four coffees at $4 each..." He goes on to say that millenials "...want to eat out every day, they want to travel to Europe every year. The people that own homes today worked very, very hard for it, saved every dollar, did everything they could to get up the property investment ladder." I'll be the first to say that it was probably really tough for Tim Gurner to buy his first investment property at nineteen. And anyone who does that is like pretty ballsy and brave. Like kudos to him and I am not trying to take away his achievements! I'm aware that my parents' dream as soon as they started working was to buy a house (a dream th

May TBR

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This post is more so I can attempt to pull myself out of a reading slump that has lasted THREE MONTHS. The worst (and only bad thing) about being an English major is that you have so much reading to do that once I read all that, I'm too tired to read anything else. But here are the books I want to read in May Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare I have been putting off reading this because I know as soon as I finish this I am going to be reaching for the next book. Problem: It's not out yet. But now that it's coming out, I can finally read this book without scratching my hair out and DYING because the next book isn't out yet. I know this book  will be good because when isn't Cassandra Clare good? I can't wait.  Pandemonium and Requiem  by Lauren Oliver Look at me reading things on my 2017 Ultimate TBR. I've finally pushed myself to a point where I can maybe pick up these books and read them. I should've read it ages ago but I did that