Australian Personal Finance and Bush Fires

[This post is written and copyrighted by FIRE Finance (http://firefinance.blogspot.com).]This week we had special guests at our home. Our cousin Jim* and his wife Anne* arrived from Australia for a fortnight tour of US. They live in Melbourne which is one of Australia's thriving metropolitan cities.We were excited to see them after a long time and wanted to catch up with our lives' varied events