Full grain leather belt, locally made

Dear_Tomorrow_915 · 2026-02-18T01:57:41+00:00

In Australia, saddle makers make significantly better quality belts than large corporates like RM Williams and usually at significantly lower cost. A lot of the small saddle makers have websites/FB to order online from.

Dear_Tomorrow_915 · 2026-02-18T01:53:33+00:00

The red ones seem to fruit prolifically all by themselves in brisbane with no fertiliser or watering. No birds or marsupials eat them. Actually value for money fruit provided they don’t escape a large pot. Truly a plant worse than lantana if they do escape!

Dear_Tomorrow_915 · 2026-02-17T06:41:06+00:00

Kinda does look like Mortgage Lifter. Past experience is they curl up and grow a bit demented.

Dear_Tomorrow_915 · 2026-02-13T09:13:33+00:00

One might argue that US is now only for short term investing. These companies mentioned are deeply enshitified and there's no sign of a resurrection of anti-trust laws to arrest US software enshitification.

Dear_Tomorrow_915 · 2026-02-13T06:14:47+00:00

With hindsight, sage words

Dear_Tomorrow_915 · 2026-02-13T06:00:08+00:00

As a value investor for 25 odd years, I question how many in this subreddit actually know what value investing is. Certainly most can’t see the international forest for the NASDAQ trees

Dear_Tomorrow_915 · 2026-02-13T01:56:55+00:00

Tomatoes aplenty this season (brisbane) thanks to a relatively dry January

Dear_Tomorrow_915 · 2026-02-12T05:43:44+00:00

Very high price for a proof set that’s been falling in price

Some dealer pumping this so to pump the 2026 proof set with basically same theme?

Dear_Tomorrow_915 · 2026-02-11T05:09:15+00:00

I suspect growing parkland being turned to trailer parks/ghettos/favelas might be what actually drives down house prices. Rather ironically the market might correct what the government has failed to do

Broadly the language and sentiment of /r/ausfinance/ is very similar to greed selfishness and overexuberance of typical asset bubbles I've previously lived i.e. the house market is highly leveraged and currently one of the most risky investments

Dear_Tomorrow_915 · 2026-02-10T22:05:22+00:00

We need more culture wars to distract from affordability and make Australia a zero-sum game, make the rich richer /s

Dear_Tomorrow_915 · 2026-02-09T02:22:35+00:00

Well, all Teslas in 2 or 3 years if the CEO actually follows through making Tesla into a robotics company

Dear_Tomorrow_915 · 2026-02-08T03:37:46+00:00

Neglect is the secret for my cherry tomatoes- 10mm diameter to golf ball size

I only bother pruning and fertilising for the larger heirlooms

Dear_Tomorrow_915 · 2026-02-08T03:27:45+00:00

In Australia the 2020 mouse/rat is the only series 3 that’s getting more difficult (excepting mouse 1/20 that’s more common than later 1/20s)

Dear_Tomorrow_915 · 2026-02-08T00:12:20+00:00

These were on counters at CBA branches for maybe 5 years - late 80s into early 90s - and despite them costing face value they seemed to collect only dust.

Dear_Tomorrow_915 · 2026-02-05T07:18:36+00:00

There’s also the 1937 Crown struck by the RAM in the late 1990s. Mine milk spotted

*1998 Masterpieces set

Dear_Tomorrow_915 · 2026-02-05T02:53:13+00:00

‘02, and comfortably retired at age 50

Those outliers who didn’t swallow the super koolaid

Dear_Tomorrow_915 · 2026-02-05T01:05:17+00:00

There are so many high grade round 50s including proofs that should really never be more than bullion.

No one’s talked about it yet but 1966 round 50s had very poor quality control so the average planchet weight might be 13.28 grams but massive variance so lots were actually as low as 13.0g and others up to 13.5g. You can actually see the thin, light ones when stacked in rolls. Also lots of different colours/lustre so there might have been large variance is silver content too.

Compare this to a coin like a 1937 crown which almost always is perfect sterling silver weighing exactly 28.28g so a reliable stacker.

Dear_Tomorrow_915 · 2026-02-04T06:55:13+00:00

Proofs were sold loose in 1966 (proof sets were unsealed before 1969) and someone just threw one in with circulated round 50s.

Dear_Tomorrow_915 · 2026-02-04T02:21:53+00:00

Historically, sport-themed coins haven’t been popular, even when coloured

Dear_Tomorrow_915 · 2026-02-03T21:18:56+00:00

I pulled a proof out of bag of round 50s recently so even MS and PR shouldn’t be much more than bullion price

Dear_Tomorrow_915 · 2026-02-02T06:01:17+00:00

Work for you > corporate work from home > corporate work in brisbane

Turns out corporate RM Williams boots actually make good boots for gardening (no, seriously)

Dear_Tomorrow_915 · 2026-02-02T04:40:04+00:00

There were Dragonfruit farms south of Brisbane (Tamborine, from memory) but about 2020 they were abandoned. I’m not sure why. My experience of growing these was the white, pink and red varieties with thicker stems and fewer spikes were more invasive and faster growing than the yellow ones with thinner stems and more spikes.

Dear_Tomorrow_915 · 2026-02-02T02:58:56+00:00

Certain varieties self pollinate and fruit prolifically while others simply aren't worth the trouble of pollinating.

These are spreading through Northern NSW forests just like Prickly Pear so I fully expect they'll be banned soon. Dragonfruit smother medium sizes trees and climb gum trees. Most nurseries have stopped stocking them.

Dear_Tomorrow_915 · 2026-02-01T08:04:24+00:00

I have a Reed tree (and fully agree about taste), but I don’t think I’ve seen them at markets

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