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- Tue Feb 07, 2017 2:10 am
- Forum: Housing and Transportation Questions
- Topic: Do you find it challenging to live in the same place for years on end?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 14229
Re: Do you find it challenging to live in the same place for years on end?
Around a year ago, we moved to our intended retirement home, purchased nearly 20 years earlier. We could not be in a better location. Prior to here, we lived in Yuma, AZ, for nearly 18 years, a good mix of cost/expense, but not good for long-term on a fixed income.
- Tue Feb 07, 2017 2:05 am
- Forum: Housing and Transportation Questions
- Topic: How to Invest 100k in Real Estate?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7972
Re: How to Invest 100k in Real Estate?
A specific example is in FEB 2013, a solo 401k type account bought a 2 bedroom, 1 bath, 1 car garage brick home for $77,500, which is being rented out at $805/month.
- Tue Feb 07, 2017 2:03 am
- Forum: Housing and Transportation Questions
- Topic: ERE City (US)
- Replies: 509
- Views: 169017
Re: ERE City (US)
The philosophy of getting like-minded individuals into the same area has come up many times. Relatively recent was the free state project which “voted” to get independent minded folks to move to New Hampshire. Acting on our own, on retirement we moved to the city of Tucson, Arizona. “Great” for inde...
- Mon Aug 01, 2016 8:30 pm
- Forum: Friends, Family, Relationships, and Community Questions
- Topic: The drawbacks of displaying financial success
- Replies: 62
- Views: 26397
Re: The drawbacks of displaying financial success
From somewhere in the past, I recall an aspect of a book or movie about “mafia”, something along the lives of the old guy telling the young to avoid a Cadillac, just get a Chevy and upgrade it as desired on the inside… Re the “status symbol” for early retired, I opine that merely being retired early...
- Sat Jul 30, 2016 11:36 am
- Forum: Technical Skills & Tools Questions
- Topic: Blocked sink success
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1222
Re: Blocked sink success
Where we previously rented, the plumbing crew sent by the landlord tried a hose thing on the bathroom sink… Essentially it’s like a balloon that goes in the pipe, the water pressure inflates the balloon then the water is SUPPOSED to force the gunk along the drainpipe.. They put it in, and went outsi...
- Sat Jul 30, 2016 11:31 am
- Forum: Technical Skills & Tools Questions
- Topic: Garden Log
- Replies: 974
- Views: 313202
Re: Garden Log
We went out for a 5:00 AM walk this morning, and after our recent rains noted amaranth growing in the public right of way, where it will shortly be trampled… We decided to “rescue” a bag full of the seedlings and put them around our lot.
- Sun Dec 06, 2015 9:01 am
- Forum: Introduce Yourself
- Topic: Hello from Tucson Arizona!
- Replies: 1
- Views: 874
Re: Hello from Tucson Arizona!
Greetings, after the wife retires at the end of this month, we also will be in Tucson. There’s a lot of good information and leads on this site, and on a similar ones it like:
http://www.early-retirement.org/
http://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/
http://www.early-retirement.org/
http://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/
- Mon Nov 23, 2015 12:26 pm
- Forum: Money and Investment Questions
- Topic: What do you guys recommend for ID Theft Protection?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5976
Re: What do you guys recommend for ID Theft Protection?
Retired Army civil service here. The wife and I “finally” got our OPM letter a little over a week ago. Signed up for the monitoring, checked our credit reports, didn’t see anything unusual. Friends suggested “Lifelock”. I read thru their website, and although it doesn’t impress me, I may be missing ...
- Mon Sep 21, 2015 4:06 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Conspiracy theory you deem most likely to be true
- Replies: 112
- Views: 28697
Re: Conspiracy theory you deem most likely to be true
Opinion: Currency, debt, the economy, etc., is being manipulated not only to enrich the elite, but to destroy any "middle class".
- Thu Sep 10, 2015 1:14 am
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Guidelines to sleep deeply and restfully and wake naturally?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 7193
Re: Guidelines to sleep deeply and restfully and wake naturally?
For me, earplugs lead to ear infections....
- Thu Sep 03, 2015 9:09 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Why does society cater to people with kids and shun those without?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5797
Re: Why does society cater to people with kids and shun those without?
We never tolerated our daughter being a “nuisance” while out in public, and now she expresses the same sentiment about others who ignore a child being a “nuisance”.
Opinion: The world is over-populated. All incentives to have more children need to be eliminated.
Opinion: The world is over-populated. All incentives to have more children need to be eliminated.
- Thu Sep 03, 2015 9:02 pm
- Forum: Technical Skills & Tools Questions
- Topic: Saving money by DIY
- Replies: 27
- Views: 5813
Re: Saving money by DIY
Younger / poorer / healthier, I did LOTS of repairs myself. Other than unique stuff for ourselves, as a “FIRE” I prefer to pay someone rather than scrape my knuckles…. And I reminded our daughter this afternoon of the “upside” of reaching the point of getting to where you can work / tinker / repair ...
- Mon Aug 24, 2015 11:15 am
- Forum: Housing and Transportation Questions
- Topic: Do you find it challenging to live in the same place for years on end?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 14229
Re: Do you find it challenging to live in the same place for years on end?
We’ve been in the same place since 1997, I am WAY past being ready to leave here. The wife has put in her retirement paperwork, so we’ve at least got a “countdown” running.
- Fri Aug 21, 2015 7:24 pm
- Forum: Politics, and other eternal disagreements
- Topic: Social attitudes regarding sex and relationships
- Replies: 21
- Views: 5934
Re: Social attitudes regarding sex and relationships
Get the politicians and bureaucrats out of marriage, and the rest of private, individual interaction. If any sentient beings voluntarily want a “religious” service binding them before their deity, it’s their decision, which should have NO legal consequences outside of their chosen religion. No one o...
- Thu Jul 23, 2015 12:31 pm
- Forum: Resources & Recommended Reading
- Topic: Enjoyable physics books
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2862
Re: Enjoyable physics books
A study guide intended to “brush up” for a physics Graduate Record Exam (GRE) might be of help. To see what you do, or don’t know, you could try a practice GRE test. http://www.ets.org/s/gre/pdf/practice_book_physics.pdf Isaac Asimov wrote several books on physics. The Georgia State University has a...
- Wed Jul 22, 2015 7:16 pm
- Forum: Technical Skills & Tools Questions
- Topic: EDC porn
- Replies: 141
- Views: 56858
Re: EDC porn
In a fanny pack:
Folding knife
Multitool
Matches or lighter
LED Flashlight
N-95 mask
Nitrile gloves
Earplugs
Whistle
Tweezers
Cough drops
Aspirin
Toothache gel
Magnifying glass
Folding knife
Multitool
Matches or lighter
LED Flashlight
N-95 mask
Nitrile gloves
Earplugs
Whistle
Tweezers
Cough drops
Aspirin
Toothache gel
Magnifying glass
- Sun Jul 19, 2015 7:54 pm
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: How many of you are financially independent? What have you done since FI? What did you do before FI?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5335
Re: How many of you are financially independent? What have you done since FI? What did you do before FI?
It depends. We have a paid for house, solar panels, garden, pensions, rental income, blah, blah, BUT, we cannot know what the politicians are going to do to us. Cut off our pensions? If all else remained the same, we could go on. Add rent controls in an inflationary environment, then we’re in troubl...
- Sat Jul 18, 2015 2:22 pm
- Forum: Friends, Family, Relationships, and Community Questions
- Topic: How would you tackle planning a frugal wedding?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 8460
Re: How would you tackle planning a frugal wedding?
Being a cynic, and retired lawyer, I’ve seen WAY too many divorces. Personal opinion and observation is that the couples who had a simple ceremony are more likely to stick together… If religious, a marriage in a church does not require the church be filled. I’ve seen them done before or after a regu...
- Sat Jul 18, 2015 2:07 pm
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Storing food/water for emergency event
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3846
Re: Storing food/water for emergency event
There are plenty of permaculture / prepper / survivalist websites and discussion forums “out there”, there may even be meetups of such groups near you... I firmly believe that having some stored water, food, first aid, and other supplies is a prudent physical type of “insurance policy”, as well as i...
- Fri Jul 17, 2015 6:53 pm
- Forum: Money and Investment Questions
- Topic: ERE and American Social Security
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2436
Re: ERE and American Social Security
… and everyone who works more than 35 years, even if after indexing those years represent just as much earnings, and paying of the SS tax, do nothing to help the retiree, they are eliminated. When I ran my own numbers, I would have been far better off if the “contributions” on my behalf had instead ...