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I told my neighbors what I do for a living but they probably think I'm full of shit because I'm home in the middle of the day so much

Bogleheads has an interesting related discussion (leveraging a balanced fund) where you choose an AA with a high sharpe ratio and lever up to get your desired risk/volatility.

http://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtop ... 0&t=143037

jacob wrote:Try Phoenix, AZ

San Francisco will be gorgeous.

Are you still doing this? How's it going?

Ok, but at least in the mortgage example both parties are clearly benefiting. The investor is getting a passive income stream and the family is getting a place to live they otherwise could not afford. In this case one can avoid (or significantly reduce) being a "save" or working for "...

Only a true-blue Extreme-INTJ would have to discover through trial that those things would be irksome! At the risk of being labeled a "true-blue Extreme-INTJ"...can someone please explain to me why the mortgage example is irksome to some people? (I understand the minimum wage example. A m...

Well, that link doesn't seem to work, here:

http://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/welcom ... -per-hour/

Hey all, there's a discussion over at MMM about how having 330k invested roughly equates to having a minimum wage worker earning money for you. I could have sworn I read about that concept here, but I couldn't find it. Is it just in the ERE book? Thread is here: http://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/welc...

But MMM has a very disproportionate amount of INTJ too. Maybe it's selection bias in that INTJs are more likely to know their MBTI? Anyways, I know plenty of INTJs that are not ERE. They are the slickdeals every day type of people -- efficient consumers but consumers nonetheless.

Oh god, the comments...

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Turn off the water heater. Or turn it way down.

UrbanHermit wrote: [*]go down to vegas with $15k in your pocket. Put it all down on one number on the roulette table, one spin only. 1 in 36 chance you walk out with a half million in the bank and can retire.

Reminded me of this: http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/off ... mble_x.htm

If you are financially responsible, then I say yes - get a credit card. This assumes little to no cost, and switching to a free unsecured account ASAP.

I am also using a boglehead strategy (everything but emergency fund is in Vanguard Target Retirement 2055 Fund (VFFVX)). Why are you switching from from indexing to PP? Are you past accumulating and just want to preserve what you have? Let's put some numbers to this- Great tool for backtesting the ...

I just follow the cooking instructions that come with Kuhn Rikon cookers. http://fantes.com/manuals/duromatic-pressure-cooking-time-charts.pdf @slowth - Good point! The slowcooker will usually have them boiling/simmering for My K-R came with all sorts of instructions for setting the pressure level....

After wandering around another country for a few weeks with no wallet (left it behind because it's too fancy), I can attest to the fact that you don't really need one.

LOL, should I cross post to MMM?

Ok, you convinced me to update

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