26 Facts About Money Mom and Dad Didn’t Tell Us About
Nobody taught us about taxes — or using squirrel pelts as currency!
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After you graduate, you quickly realize how little you know about anything. We’ve all heard countless pissy digs at curriculums nationwide for not including real-world skills like budgeting and investing, and we’re here to pile on even more! For instance, nobody taught us that Australian money is so thin that you can use it as the needle on a record player! But we had to learn useless crap like the pythagorean theorem?! Pfft. Come on!
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