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05-29-2020, 05:45 PM #26
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05-29-2020, 07:09 PM #27
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05-29-2020, 07:33 PM #28
We've been fortunate enough to be able to leave our kids school debt free, which is a pretty good start. And my grandfatther left my mom some money some of which she left to me and I expect to leave to my kids. We[re a lot luckier than most, and I try to keep reminding myself of that. (Also, as my wife today was bemoaning her lost beauty, I reminded her and myself how lucky I am to never have had good looks to lose.)
Anyway, what's there to spend money on? At the moment our expenses are covered by social security. I wish I could spend more.
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05-29-2020, 07:48 PM #29Funky But Chic
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You could start a crack habit, that would burn up some cash. Or really any connoisseur-type shit will do the trick. Wine, food, single-barrel bourbons, hell you can spend a fortune on coffee. If all else fails you could always buy a boat.
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05-29-2020, 07:59 PM #30
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05-29-2020, 08:21 PM #31
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05-29-2020, 08:32 PM #32
my furkid gots all the loots he needs
and the back of the boat
now overpopulating the earth with special snowflake needies
ya knows 5 hours a day looking at a phone
no wonder they need help
just like bunny"When the child was a child it waited patiently for the first snow and it still does"- Van "The Man" Morrison
"I find I have already had my reward, in the doing of the thing" - Buzz Holmstrom
"THIS IS WHAT WE DO"-AML -ski on in eternal peace
"I have posted in here but haven't read it carefully with my trusty PoliAsshat antenna on."-DipshitDanno
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05-29-2020, 09:41 PM #33
Your advice is sound for today. And sad. Newlywed with an AAS and the lowest guy in the factory who had to wear a tie, I had new car in 2 years and a house in 4 with a 12% mortgage. I don't recall anyone with multiple single family properties as a business. Small businesses was were the businesses $ went.
A few people feel the rain. Most people just get wet.
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05-29-2020, 09:44 PM #34Registered User
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05-29-2020, 10:36 PM #35Registered User
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05-30-2020, 05:02 AM #36
well observant jong does math
it takes a while to be a 10ker
yup "what a long strange trip its been"
just not 5 hour a day
nor on a phone
that'd cut into the skiing and fishing or time with the god
and one of those posts probably involves that
you should find the sub 100 post jong thread and answer the questions"When the child was a child it waited patiently for the first snow and it still does"- Van "The Man" Morrison
"I find I have already had my reward, in the doing of the thing" - Buzz Holmstrom
"THIS IS WHAT WE DO"-AML -ski on in eternal peace
"I have posted in here but haven't read it carefully with my trusty PoliAsshat antenna on."-DipshitDanno
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05-30-2020, 06:28 AM #37
2 posts per day, easily done from the shitter depending on one's fiber intake.
@L2S, agreed.
Best thing I ever did financially was to start buying cheap old cars.
Anyone who thinks "everything will be ok" needs to consider the ever-increasing concentration of wealth--one of the greatest problems and probably the most difficult to reverse (aside from politics). It's part of human nature to retrench one's own interests before helping others.
There's a waterline always moving higher. Very easy for boomers to get above it. The pool was shallower and wider. Very different today, and coronavirus unfortunately accelerated it. Tax bill accelerated it before that.
It's not that those below the waterline can't have a life. It just won't be the one they want, or that their parents wanted for them.
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05-30-2020, 08:37 AM #38
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05-30-2020, 09:12 AM #39
Yeah, they just opened up Italy, and the young people are out and about enjoying cocktails. Same in Paris. Bring on the old house and assets.
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05-30-2020, 09:15 AM #40Been there, skied that.
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05-30-2020, 12:33 PM #41
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05-30-2020, 01:39 PM #42Registered User
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I used to paddle with a girl who was taking 6 years to do a 4 year program and she basicly said " mummy is paying for it so why would I bust my ass If I don't have to ? "
I would ask why should your parents bust their ass so you don't have to ?
what exactly are kids being taught ?
BTW She did turn out OK and married a dentistLee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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06-01-2020, 12:16 PM #43
“Back to the land”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/techn...cate-pandemic/Forum Cross Pollinator, gratuitously strident
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