Early Retirement Extreme Forums

@Jacob and @Jennypenny Nice to be on again, and I am amazed at your remembering me from the past. Hoping your all doing very well and thanks for not having a "fruit basket upset" over my "intended" comical, but possibly seeming stupid post!!!! After all, for many of you, the wors...

Firstly, I admitted defeat and gave up on inventing the world's first truly effective squirrel proof bird feeder. I had a great idea, but had not thought out the side effects. I had intended to electrify the feeder @110 VAC and electrocute the invading squirrel. I had forgotten two essential issues:...

@Ego
No problem!! My own alter-ego raised his left thumb along with my two. He is off getting me another Killian's right now.

<t>@Ego<br/> Three thumbs up for having it figured out. Finally someone who puts it like it is.<br/> Now on debt:<br/> All debt is not bad up to a point. Everyone can't run to the outback and build a dugout to live in. All of our 300+ million people, many trained in pure entitlement and greed as Ame...

<t>Lots of excellent comments placed above. I view life in about ten year increments, meaning I prefer to begin in the 40's at birth, and think through the 50's, 60's and so on. I find this gives me a good measure of what life has been, based on my possibilities and resources and of course "requirem...

@dot_com_vet
Thanks for your comments. Actually what craps me out the worst is the jerk (M or F) who has one sticking out of their ear!

<t>@Maus<br/> The smartphones--tablets, what next? I personally don't want any smartphone calls or worse "texts", but I do want to have help when I am (at my age) in some kind of a jam. So to me, the phone can put a tow truck or EMT near me, where in my previous life it might have been more difficul...

<t>I disagree with the University types who want to stereotype everyone by age into a generational culture, or a certain behavior criteria.<br/> <br/> During the 1960's the boomers were a pot smoking, war protesting, free love, woodstock attending, draft card burning bunch of useless human beings. K...

<t>Move into one of my one bedroom apartments.<br/> Qualify on disability: Get "hurt". Have a doctor friend<br/> <br/> write you a disability statement. File it and get it turned down. See an attorney (maybe Maus) and file it the second time whereby they automatically award it.<br/> Once awarded, ap...

<t>@J<br/> Thanks for the mention, but my business is back on track and my 24/7 rudder work is drawing down. I "think" I have hired a rather competent manager, but time alone shall tell. I need to get back to Retirement Version 3.6.<br/> <br/> The Housing business is a hard animal to control. It tak...

Bounce your personal status off this website:
http://heartsandminds.org/poverty/hungerfacts.htm

<t>In the early 1970's one could buy a 3 bdrm, 1.5 bath 1250 sq ft brick veneer home for around $16,500. One paid $500.00 down, and received a FHA235 loan for 30 years. The payment (all 360 of them) ran less than 30% of gross monthly income. These were in subdivisions. A builder bought a cow pasture...

<t>Nothing wrong with buying a house you can afford.<br/> Madness buying a house you can't afford. <br/> Conventional wisdom tells you to not spend more than 30% of your adjusted gross income on housing. Duh, this would leave money to purchase other things you need or will need. But people got such ...

I just put my usual check in the mail. As long as it is postmarked on Apr 15/17 (depending) I could care less if it takes the USPO eight years to deliver it.
No, not being cynical. Were shoe other foot I would want it yesterday.

I renounced university football in 1966. I guess that was why they sent me to Viet Nam.

Welcome aboard JuicyJudi
We will be anticipating your posts. Thanks for joining us.

<t>Example in fact:<br/> Last weekend I ordered two catfish dinners to go and brought them home. Cost $23.45. Wife figured this up and can prepare same-same dinners for less than $10.00 at home. 12 0z filets of catfish, hush puppies, fries, cole slaw, relish dish. Now these were very big individual ...

<t>I watched the one last night on the guy who used to be a truck driver, now retired and doing the prepping at some location. The guy was into ham radios, guns, etc.<br/> <br/> The guy looked like he could run 15 feet and have a massive heart attack.<br/> <br/> Physical fitness, IMHO, would be one ...

<t>@ George the Original----"Most debt, apart from mortgages, can't even be discharged in a bankruptcy now, so if you have to go through bankruptcy, you won't even be able to share in an economic recovery."<br/> Right on. And to make matters worse, if they brought HSpencer to court, I can promise yo...

@Dragline
Seriously. Is it difficult to overcome the swallow factor when one is under duress, or in an ongoing confrontation?

I now find I am doing that where before I had not noticed it.

Maybe it is an old age thing?
PM me if you wish.