After a bit of a late night I'm feeling a touch rough but I'm still learning lots - like micro shares in horse ownership and how to waste $1200 on an advent calendar.
ALL ABOUT THE BAD GUYS
We took the kids to the Bended Elbow here in Albury last night for the latest round of trivia put on by the awesome efforts of the Big, Tall and Small team. And given the theme was Disney villains, with the kids help we figured we'd romp it in wouldn't we?
Wouldn't we?
Ahh, no.
While my wife and daughter gave it a red hot crack, my son decided he was only there for the drinks and burger and I struggled to recognise my Hades and Chernabogs. We crashed through the first round and barely survived the second, so much so that we figured if we continued at the same rate we'd land nicely in last place and get to take home a bag of chips (Honey soy!).
Sadly even that was out of reach because it turns out the table with the three older ladies did worse than we did. So no prizes for team 'Jafar and JaFurious' but at least we had a great fun night out, even if I did go to bed an hour and a half later than usual.
(I will also ad that working out that afternoon didn't work out in my favour either. By the time we turned up to the pub, my stomach was in knots and given how busy it was, the meals were understandably delayed. Between the late meal and the beer, sleep didn't come easy.)
BUT THE SHOW WENT ON, AFTER THE SHOW
It's been a while since I last hosted anything (and the last event wasn't even radio related, it was a fundraising trivia night for a baseball club the in laws are a part of) but today I was invited to the launch of the 2022 Wodonga Gold Cup race coming up on November 25. There I interviewed the CEO on camera about getting back into a big race day after Covid ruined everything for two years running and I also learned a little about horse ownership micro shares.
Basically if you can't afford a race horse (and I'm going to guess that probably about 90-95% of my reading audience probably aren't at the level of race horse purchasing ability just yet - keep grinding my friends!) then you can use an app to buy 'micro shares'. Like a very small part ownership in a million dollar nag.
'So what's the minimum buy in for a horse share?' -Me, curious about micro investments.
'Oh about $250 a share. I have three and planning to buy more.' -The micro share owner explaining things to me.
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| If I got into this, I'd probably have a part share in this fine beast |
Oh to be in the enviable situation where I had a spare $250 let alone $750 to splash on a racehorse that may not even make a place in its racing career. Although let's be honest, if I did have that sort of cheese lying around, I'd be making a sizeable dent on my want list long before I delved into something I know precious little about like horse racing. Still, good luck to all the 0.01% owners out there of a horse.
(I haven't included a link here to the service because I don't want to make this look like some kind of random sales pitch. If you google 'Micro shares horse ownership' or the like, you'll find what you're looking for pretty easily.)
EACH DAY ANOTHER CHOCOLATE
And if I had a spare $1200 handy? Well I doubt I'd be using it to buy an advent calendar of all things. But if you're in that market, have a look at this effort from Haigh:
Each day gets you a handful (not one like usual advent calendars) of quality chocolates as you count down the days to Christmas and potentially your next dentist visit. But at the eye watering price of $1190, are you really that much into chocolate? Considering that level of money could buy all my family an awesome present twice over, it's a no from me.
But maybe you're in the 5-10% of readers currently looking at micro share ownership and something like this tickles your fancy. If that's the case, merry early xmas!
I'm off to trip over the couch
Chat tomorrow!
-Almigo
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