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August 21, 2025 / FrogdancerJones / 0 Comments

I told Scout that I’m flying out in 6 days to see Iceland, Greenland, Scandinavia and the Baltics.

She looks sad.

Dad Joke of the day:

Retirement Reading Quest – Reading my way to ‘free’ council rates.

I’m on a quest to borrow and read enough books to, in effect, cancel out the cost of my council rates per year.
It’s outlined in this post.

Year 7: I’m already a year ahead on my rates, so I’m taking a reader’s suggestion and I’m going to go back and start covering the rates from the year before I started. I may as well.

Year 7: Total needed: 2019/2020…$1,800

Running total: $290

Year 6 (2025/2026) $2,590 AREADY COVERED!!!!!!

10/08/2015 – I won’t have another rates notice until August 2026, so I have time to kill. Let’s knock over a previous year’s rates, just for fun.

Year 5 (2024/2025) $2,339 and dog rego ($63) = $2,435.

Finished it before I even had the new rates notice ready.

Year 4 (2023/2024) $2,413.

Success! Not sure exactly when I passed the total, because I was waiting on the dog registrations to come through. But yes – I blitzed it.

Year 3: (2022/2023) $2,350

12/01/2023 FINISHED! Not working gives me heaps more reading time – I recommend it!

Year 2: (2021/2022) $2,200

Finished 28/06/2022

YEAR 1 : 2020/2021… $1,800
SUCCESS 31/08/2021

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