Blog No. 343 - Beyond Exhaustion – Part 4: Another Marriage, Another Disaster - 20 November 2025
Beyond Exhaustion – Part 4: Another Marriage, Another Disaster - 21 October 2025 - The 1980s for me were some of the more stressful years of my life. Well, most of my years were tough in their own way. 1981 was the year when I bought my first home in Adelaide. It was a rundown house on Morgan Avenue, Daw Park. It came from a deceased estate, and it really was very rundown. I had saved up $800 (equal to $3,845.41 in 2024) but the purchase price for the house was $26000 (equal to $124,975.74 in 2024). You see, the advantage of the old days was the lack of computers to keep track of every single financial transaction you ever made. I borrowed $8000 from a credit union, and $6000 from the bank as a personal loan. It was simple to convince them to lend me this money - I lied. The bank never knew about the loan from the credit union and the credit union never knew about the loan from the bank. I never once defaulted on my repayments, and the personal loans were paid off in ...
