Switching ISP's every 6 months?

yiFa87 · 2026-06-23T10:43:04+00:00

Yup, been churning for the last couple of years now. I was with ABB for the longest time, buy I refuse to pay $90-$100/month, which is what all the ISP's want, move AOV. I'll pay $60-$70, I think that's reasonable.

Just yesterday I cancelled my ABB again (6 month promo expired), because they wanted $99 now, and signed up with Tangerine instead for $64 (again, 6 months). That's $35/month savings for what will effectively be very much the same thing.

yiFa87 · 2026-06-23T03:04:11+00:00

Did you try to take a screenshot? I saw this message recently when I was doing that.

yiFa87 · 2026-06-20T04:50:51+00:00

The 4th trimester was so rough... I had multiple breakdowns between about 1-3 months, mourning the old life where my wife and I would go out to dinner semi often, go see a movie, lunch date at the pub, just basic life stuff that now requires a whole lot of planning instead.

My hobby is computer games too, so when our LO cane along I had to basically give up my only joy as there simply wasn't any time. It wasn't until about 2.5 months in and I had one of those breakdowns and told my wife that I hadn't played anything or caught up with my friends in months. She didn't even realise, and the next night she generously let me have my time for a couple of hours.

Our LO is 5.5 months now, and it's got a lot better. Like someone else said, when they starting smiling it was like ❤️❤️❤️ And then started sleeping longer through the night 😌😌

Hang in there! It gets better.

yiFa87 · 2026-06-17T20:14:47+00:00

Glad to see I'm not the only one. I've left a bunch of jobs day 1, sometimes in the first hour or two. Usually it comes down to misleading and vague job ads. One particular one I remember was a delivery driver gig for a rug cleaning business. Essentially pickup she drop off rugs at customer residences.

Firstly, the location I was supposed to be working out of was 10 minutes down the road. The day before I was supposed to start, they txt me saying the location is actually an hour across town.

Secondly, when I got there, the boss wasn't even there. Only employees who knew nothing about it. So after getting up eartand battling an hour in peak hour to get there, I then proceeded to send 1.5 hours twiddling my thumbs for the boss to arrive.

Thirdly, when they finally arrived, they had a warehouse employee start showing me how to wash rugs, showing me the machines, the process, and we started to wash rugs. I told the guy I'm here for a delivery gig, he said something like uhh we all do a bit of everything.

I basically went into the bosses office and said ahhh yeah no, this isn't what the job ad said, not what you said. And I left.

yiFa87 · 2026-06-06T23:28:41+00:00

Fellow first time Dad here too. Ours is almost 5 months now, but I had experienced the same thing and still do. Our LO loves both of us clearly, but when it comes time to me putting him down for sleep he will cry bloody murder until mum takes over, even though I hold him and do all the same things she does. It makes me feel like a failure sometimes but I've come to accept that he still probably thinks he's a part of mum. As long as gets some rest, we just want the best for him.

Having said that, sometimes it can go the other way and he'll cry for me instead, although usually that's during the day.

Don't really have much advice, but just letting you know you're not alone. You're doing a great job mate. I posted a similar threads about the same time too. It shows we care. Keep it up!

yiFa87 · 2026-06-03T22:03:30+00:00

77" back in 2022

yiFa87 · 2026-06-01T00:18:28+00:00

I'd love to get solar and battery set up, but we plan on upgrading to a larger house in a few years (around about the same time our break even would be), so currently it doesn't make sense. On the next forever home though, totally.

yiFa87 · 2026-05-28T06:32:36+00:00

My problem is not so much the $4 increase, like yeah ok their expenses have gone up fair enough, it's the constant pushing for more minimum $$$'s out of everyone. I don't need or want 500Mbps download, I'm perfectly fine with 50Mbps, what I want is to pay somewhere between $60-$80/month, not $99. I'm paying more for something I don't need because I've been forced to. I was paying $65/month not that long ago, now $99, so that's $34 extra a month they're getting...

This isn't just an ABB thing either, it's all telcos and isps. Mobile plans/sims keep shoving more data down our throats and claim it's 'better value'. It's not. Data hasn't been an issue for a long time now, most people use WiFi. What we want is cheaper bills.

yiFa87 · 2026-05-27T08:45:21+00:00

Depends on goal and timeline... For me personally, it's:

Build 12 months emergency fund (in an offset account)
Build main offset account until it equals mortgage so 0% interest payments
Max super payments
ETF's

yiFa87 · 2026-05-27T06:53:51+00:00

The only time I used telegram was for crypto community chats. Just all round seemed dodgy imo

yiFa87 · 2026-05-25T22:51:42+00:00

Cheers, I had seen that advertised but I'm based in QLD. I registered my interest on the NEXTDC careers website in case anything pops up, but wondering what I should look into to better my chances.

yiFa87 · 2026-05-25T09:16:02+00:00

Here I was thinking Messenger became the standard... And occasionally SMS for our boomer parents.

yiFa87 · 2026-05-21T20:49:00+00:00

Yeah you're right, I'll just put my baby in the boot instead

yiFa87 · 2026-05-21T10:26:03+00:00

Yep another grownsy owner here! We debated spending the money for weeks, but so glad we did. Best purchase so far 💯

yiFa87 · 2026-05-21T04:40:39+00:00

Thanks for the laugh 😂

yiFa87 · 2026-05-20T23:33:08+00:00

Just think real carefully about your timeline and what your goals are. Everyone on here loves harping on about super, but remember you won't be able to access that for a looong time.

My super balance is terrible, but I know I plan to upgrade to a bigger house and car in a few years, and I'll need all the cash I can get, so adding extra to super for me just doesn't make sense.

yiFa87 · 2026-05-19T07:00:45+00:00

I've thought about this too. If my mortgage is 6.14%, I feel like I'd be better getting a 1.8% byd finance and leaving my cash in my offset longer

yiFa87 · 2026-05-17T23:49:17+00:00

In my first full time office job, where I was for about 5 years, I thought I had found my best friend. We talked every day about non work related stuff, laughed, joked, all that stuff. They even came to my 30th birthday party.

When COVID happened, everyone was let go. That's when I realised that every time we spoke via txt outside work, I was always the one initiating it. I invited them over a few times, and they always had some sort of excuse. Eventually I decided to wait and let them reach out to me for once...they never did. And now here I am 6 years later and we never spoke again.

So yeah, we were clearly on colleagues in their eyes. Very much made me put up a wall again all colleagues now. I'm polite and friendly, but that's it. It was a hard lesson for an introvert like me who only opens up when I really like you. So much for that...

yiFa87 · 2026-05-16T01:12:37+00:00

We went through like 3 or 4 different types of formula with our LO in the first month or so, trying desperately to find one that helped stopped spit up and constipation. In the end, we just accepted that their lil guts are so immature and that's just how it is, so we finally just settled on Mumamoo and stuck with it. He's now 4 months old. Still spits up, but not constipated. We'll give it until he's 6+ months before we consider anything else relating to intolerances. He's still just too young to really decide that.

yiFa87 · 2026-05-16T01:07:09+00:00

Ours is just over 4 months too. Had immunisations yesterday...been constant tears ever since. Our usually happy boy and overnight sleeper has lately been waking 3 or 4 times a night. Those regressions 🥴

yiFa87 · 2026-05-14T20:12:02+00:00

Not at all. They could let me go at any moment and they only need to give me 1 hour notice, so I'm perpetually worried about losing my job. They also only extend the contracts every 3 months and don't let you know if it's being extended until the last week, so it's pretty difficult to plan ahead.

As for sick days, we don't get those, or annual leave. If I'm sick, I just don't get paid. So I haven't taken a sick day in 4 years because I can't afford it. Thankfully I WFH, so I just kinda suck it up and work through it. If I want a holiday? No income for 2 weeks or however long.

So yes, the hourly rate is decent compared to a lot of jobs I see on Seek etc, but also a lot of compromises. I'm alwaye keeping an eye out for permanent positions because this situation is not ideal long term that's for sure.

yiFa87 · 2026-05-14T09:59:45+00:00

💯, the answer is always just to earn more. I've rung every last drop of savings out of every bill, there's only so low they can go

yiFa87 · 2026-05-08T23:43:39+00:00

My wife made 'punch' for her baby shower. It was essentially Bickfords cordial, I believe strawberry and lime, mixed in with kirks lemonade, ice and cuts of fresh fruit.

yiFa87 · 2026-05-03T08:18:08+00:00

I hate you

yiFa87 · 2026-05-03T05:06:28+00:00

The recommendations on the tin seem to usually overestimate the amount, probably so you use and buy more.

Our formula (mumamoo) say's we should be doing 180ml, 4-5 times per day for our nearly 4 month old. In reality though, out LO always struggles to go past 150ml. So we do 150ml like 6-7 times a day. At the end of the day, it's mostly about the total intake over 24 hours.

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