Owen Raskovitch

And the reason why it's getting such traction is because blogs and websites have made it very simple and cheap for people to come up and tell their story and how they've done it.

And people are giving you the numbers online, their full financial picture.

Yeah, that's it.

So in the past, you would have to pick up a book because someone would have had to have gone to a publisher to get that book published and then it'd be on the bookshelves.

But now you can start a blog for like 10 bucks.

And a lot of them are anonymous.

So they're happy to share a lot more details that they wouldn't necessarily tell you in real life.

That's it.

There's a couple that blog under the name Dividends Down Under, DDU.

They pretty much share everything down to what air conditioner they bought, why they bought it.

Those types of things.

And those are really, I guess, neat ways to just understand your own budget and relate to that, even if you don't know their names, for example.

And someone's circumstances might be completely different to yours, but there's lots of interesting things you can pick up from reading different people's stories.

And you might not know anyone in real life you could talk to about this, but going and finding these blogs online actually sort of opens up a different world to you.

Yeah, that's it.

And it also takes away the legwork of you having to think about all the different things that you might have to think about, right?

Is it worth having private health insurance?

Has someone written about this that I can, you know, who's done the research and I can rely on that.

It's all free, what have you.

Okay, so here's the big question.