{"id":245079,"date":"2025-05-17T10:16:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T10:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/business\/investing\/slim-dusty-and-the-nine-year-old-the-barefoot-investor\/"},"modified":"2025-05-17T10:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T10:16:13","slug":"slim-dusty-and-the-nine-year-old-the-barefoot-investor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=245079","title":{"rendered":"Slim Dusty and the Nine-Year-Old \u2014 The Barefoot Investor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"><em>Dear Scott,<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"><em>My name is Imogen. I\u2019m nine years old and live in Melbourne. I was camping with my country cousins at Christmas when my uncle made me a deal: he\u2019d give me $50 if I could learn and recite one of his favourite Slim Dusty songs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"><em>It\u2019s a poem by Henry Lawson called \u2018Peter Anderson &amp; Co\u2019. I had to recite it by heart by 10 January 2025. It was tricky at first, but I got there \u2013 and I won the $50! (I gave my little sister $10 because she helped me.) My uncle said I should invest the rest. Scott, do you have any ideas for what company I could own a share in? I love animals! Please could you write back with some ideas? My mum\u00a0\u00a0reads your column \u2013 maybe you could put your suggestions in there? Also, I\u2019ve read\u00a0Barefoot Kids\u00a0\u2013 it\u2019s the best!<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"><em>Imogen<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Hey Imogen,<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">I\u2019d never heard of the song, so I looked up the lyrics. They went for three pages (!), with lines like:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"><em>See if you can raise a drink, old man, I\u2019m feelin\u2019 mighty bad<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"><em>Hot and sweetened, nip o\u2019 butter, squeeze o\u2019 lemon, Pete, he sighed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">That\u2019s just <em>weird<\/em>! <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Yet good on you for memorising it \u2013 you certainly earned your pineapple.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">So here\u2019s what I think you should do with your forty bucks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">First, given your love of animals, I think you should donate $10 to a local animal shelter or the RSPCA. Even $10 can help buy two warm blankets for a puppy, cover food for a cat for nearly a week, or pay for a microchip that helps a lost pet find its way home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Second, ask your parents (or your uncle) to help you google \u201ckids\u2019 investing apps\u201d. Plenty of them let you start with just a few bucks, so you can use your other $30 to invest in Aussie shares. That\u2019s right: you\u2019ll own a slice of a real company \u2013 like Woolies, Coles and the banks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Pretty grown-up stuff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">And you know what\u2019s cool about that? <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">You\u2019re memorising this stuff when you\u2019re nine \u2013 most people don\u2019t hear the tune until they\u2019re 59. You are going to be so wealthy. I can feel it.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Finally, your uncle sounds like a fun guy. Why not challenge him back? If he can memorise Taylor Swift\u2019s \u2018Shake It Off\u2019, tell him you\u2019ll give him $1!<\/p>\n<p><em>Scott<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Scott, My name is Imogen. I\u2019m nine years old and live in Melbourne. I was camping with my country cousins at Christmas when my uncle made me a deal: he\u2019d give me $50 if I could learn and recite one of his favourite Slim Dusty songs. It\u2019s a poem by Henry Lawson called \u2018Peter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":104158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[10055,5457,13177,89901,574],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-245079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-investing","tag-barefoot","tag-dusty","tag-investor","tag-nineyearold","tag-slim"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Slim Dusty and the Nine-Year-Old \u2014 The Barefoot Investor - Som2ny Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=245079\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Slim Dusty and the Nine-Year-Old \u2014 The Barefoot Investor - Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dear Scott, My name is Imogen. 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