Jaleesa Paine

These might just be some of my favourite DMs that I’ve ever received about these books 👉🏽🥹💓

Teaching kids about money doesn’t have to be boring or hard. Who knew it could be made fun (and easy) through the magic of storytelling!?! 😍

And the good news, one lucky family will be winning The Money Lessons trio bundle tomorrow 🎉 all thanks to the Book Week Giveaway Corrine | Real Estate | Brisbane South & Bayside and I are running 📚

Entries close TONIGHT at 7pm AEST!

To enter, head to the Giveaway Reel on our profiles for all the instructions. Good luck!!

A little reminder before you head to open homes today 👇🏽

Buying your first home will never be completely risk-free.

You can research. Prepare. Ask great questions. Run the numbers. Do your due diligence... And still, something can not go exactly to plan.

So, the goal isn’t certainty.

It’s becoming so prepared, informed and confident in your decisions that when a curveball comes your way, you trust yourself to handle it 🧡

Save this post for the days when buying your first home feels a little scary, and remind yourself that you got this x

An inspection gives you maybe 30 minutes. Thirty minutes to fall in love with a kitchen and imagine where you’ll place your furniture in the lounge room.

What it doesn’t give you is a Monday morning.
Or a Friday night after a long week.
Or a Sunday afternoon with nothing on.

Those are the things you’ll be living, though. And thinking about those everyday moments can sometimes get overlooked...

So next time you walk through an open home, run an ordinary day through the property.

💭 Where would your hobbies happen? Is there space for them?

💭 How would you get to work, and what would that commute cost you, not just in petrol, but in time and headspace?

💭 What’s the one small thing that would become a daily annoyance six months in? Could you be okay with that?

You’re not just buying bedrooms, bathrooms and a postcode. You’re buying how your life will look and feel living there.

So tell me, what’s one thing you didn’t think to check at an inspection, but wish you had? Drop it in the comments below 👇🏽

This is something I feel pretty strongly about.

Yes, buying a home will probably require some compromise. But I don’t believe your entire life should have to disappear to pay for it.

What do you think?

Would you be willing to sacrifice more of your lifestyle to own a home, or is there a line you won’t cross?

Tell me below 👇🏽

Money confidence starts long before our kids earn their first pay cheque💛

These are three of the money lessons we want our kids growing up knowing, and exactly why I created the Money Lessons series 📚

To celebrate Book Week, Corrine | Real Estate | Brisbane South & Bayside and I are giving one lucky family the trio book bundle!

🎉 **Head to our giveaway Reel to enter**

Entries close Sunday 23 August at 7pm AEST. Make sure you’re in it for an opportunity to win it 🙌🏽

🎨 Illustrated by Paridhi P Apte
✍🏻 Edited by AMY • LightWriter Media

Let me know in the comments what money lesson you’d love your kids to learn 👇🏽

I don’t think our job is always to hand kids the “right” answer.

Sometimes it’s to give them enough knowledge, confidence and agency that they can ask themselves: what do I have, what matters to me, and what can I do with it?

That’s financial literacy too. Maybe the most important part of it.

PS - It feels pretty fitting that our Money Lessons Book Week giveaway went live yesterday. If there’s a little person in your life you’d love to start having these conversations with, check out yesterdays post x