The Joys Of Spam

As this blog is fairly new, new content is required in order to keep it going so it was time to write a new article. At the point of logging in I wasn’t sure what to write about and then it was staring me right in the face … 261 items of spam attempted as comments onto the site … Grrrr!

Although the internet is a fantastic tool, junk mail is not and dodgy marketers have literally a free reign at attempting to market anything and everything simply by the press of a button to unsuspecting sites. Gone are the good old days of junk mail filling up your letterbox …

Fortunately I can’t read Russian or Chinese – I’m not in the need of a “sexy” time, the latest 100x your money through Crypto scheme or assistance with expressing myself through the English language – so at this stage I’ll pass on all the wonderful offers available.

Thanks to the way the open source community have evolved and improved wordpress – 100% of these comments were stopped from going through automatically and were easily removed with the simple press of a button … Poof! Gone!

The goal of this site is to assist people with saving money, getting more for less and learning how to improve peoples lives through better money management. We will achieve that goal no matter how small the impact we make!

Goodbye spam. We briefly enjoyed your comments but our relationship has come to a quick end 😉

And The Market Gets Worse …

So after another poor week in investing it feels like a downward spiral. Every day seems to lose hundreds of dollars from our portfolio but rest assured – if it’s impacting us, then it’s probably impacting you as well. Cold comfort, but there are opportunities to invest more money now. Eventually the market will recover but nobody knows when that may occur – and when it does I’ll know I’ve done everything I can to bolster our investments. The rich have an advantage during downturns – they hold their money and when the time is right they swoop in, buying low.

Once the market recovers, they’re the ones who make the biggest profits. Unfortunately unless you’ve got the capital and you’re a retail investor like us, then you’re totally at the mercy of the markets.

Hold your nerve, keep investing, because one of these days the sun is going to shine again! 🙂