What does it tell you?
Australians want to own their own home. They want to buy a house, pay a mortgage and own their own home.
Obviously its a dream! Who doesn't want to own a house, pay it off and one day live mortgage free in their own home, the home they watched their kids grow up in, the home that sore their kids walk, talk and play for the first time.
I have a home like this, its seen my kids walk, talk, laugh and cry. Its seen my kids birthdays, its watched me plan a wedding and its heard endless hours of laughter. My pictures are on the walls, my clothes hang in the wardrobe and my kids toys decorate the floors.
But guess what? This home isn't "mine". I dont own this home. Someone else does. I pay them for the ability to live here. Im deeply in the "rent trap" or so they call it.
Let me tell you my thoughts on this. For years and I literally mean YEARS, I have been renting and feeling like a failure. I moved out with my MR when I was 19 years old, I was pregnant at 20 and had my first baby at 21. We have never ever asked for money and have 100% supported ourselves since this time. We pay rent, childcare and a car loan every week. Leaving us with enough money to live but not enough money to save for a house deposit.
So I felt like a failure. I wasn't focusing on all the amazing things we have achieved, instead I focused on the one thing I didn't have. It ate me up in time. I felt I was letting my kids down because I wasn't supplying them with their own home.
It has only been in the last couple of weeks I realised just how ridiculous this is. Home is where the heart is. Home is the roof over our heads, the kids dont know the difference between a house we own and a house we rent. And with that, brief thought...I took a breath. I smiled and I realised how wonderful life is. There are 100 million homeless people in the world and a further 1.6 Billion who live in substandard housing, and here I am complaining about not owning my own house, how ridiculous.
MR and I sat down and had a deep conversation about our future. We have decided that we are going to work to enjoy our life, not work to pay off debt. We have decided we are going to show our kids the world through our eyes, so we can see the world through theirs.
We have decided that for the next 10 years, buying a house is not going to be a priority but instead living our lives is! We are going to travel. We are going to work hard and then we are going to travel.
Our first stop is going to be JAPAN. We are going in March next year....cherry blossom season. Its been our dream for years and from now on , we are going to make our dreams a reality.
So here we are, a new lease on life, The Great Burgess dream! and this is just a small step on what is going to be a fantastic journey. So please follow along and enjoy the ride.
Have you been to Japan? Do you have any must see things? Whats your family dream?
So I felt like a failure. I wasn't focusing on all the amazing things we have achieved, instead I focused on the one thing I didn't have. It ate me up in time. I felt I was letting my kids down because I wasn't supplying them with their own home.
It has only been in the last couple of weeks I realised just how ridiculous this is. Home is where the heart is. Home is the roof over our heads, the kids dont know the difference between a house we own and a house we rent. And with that, brief thought...I took a breath. I smiled and I realised how wonderful life is. There are 100 million homeless people in the world and a further 1.6 Billion who live in substandard housing, and here I am complaining about not owning my own house, how ridiculous.
MR and I sat down and had a deep conversation about our future. We have decided that we are going to work to enjoy our life, not work to pay off debt. We have decided we are going to show our kids the world through our eyes, so we can see the world through theirs.
We have decided that for the next 10 years, buying a house is not going to be a priority but instead living our lives is! We are going to travel. We are going to work hard and then we are going to travel.
Our first stop is going to be JAPAN. We are going in March next year....cherry blossom season. Its been our dream for years and from now on , we are going to make our dreams a reality.
So here we are, a new lease on life, The Great Burgess dream! and this is just a small step on what is going to be a fantastic journey. So please follow along and enjoy the ride.
Have you been to Japan? Do you have any must see things? Whats your family dream?
