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ParticipantI have friends and relatives who are not in debt and who have lived by a policy of living below their means. My brother-in-law used to say “It’s not about how much money you make but how much you save.”
He will have his house paid off very soon, will collect a pension and has no credit card or car loans debt. I know he and his wife have made far less per year than myself and my wife have over the years.
All he – and others like him – should do is continue to pay his own fixed rate mortgage. He lived conservatively. It would be unfair – outrageous – to ask him and others to pay for other people’s losses.
ParticipantI have friends and relatives who are not in debt and who have lived by a policy of living below their means. My brother-in-law used to say “It’s not about how much money you make but how much you save.”
He will have his house paid off very soon, will collect a pension and has no credit card or car loans debt. I know he and his wife have made far less per year than myself and my wife have over the years.
All he – and others like him – should do is continue to pay his own fixed rate mortgage. He lived conservatively. It would be unfair – outrageous – to ask him and others to pay for other people’s losses.
ParticipantI have friends and relatives who are not in debt and who have lived by a policy of living below their means. My brother-in-law used to say “It’s not about how much money you make but how much you save.”
He will have his house paid off very soon, will collect a pension and has no credit card or car loans debt. I know he and his wife have made far less per year than myself and my wife have over the years.
All he – and others like him – should do is continue to pay his own fixed rate mortgage. He lived conservatively. It would be unfair – outrageous – to ask him and others to pay for other people’s losses.
ParticipantI have friends and relatives who are not in debt and who have lived by a policy of living below their means. My brother-in-law used to say “It’s not about how much money you make but how much you save.”
He will have his house paid off very soon, will collect a pension and has no credit card or car loans debt. I know he and his wife have made far less per year than myself and my wife have over the years.
All he – and others like him – should do is continue to pay his own fixed rate mortgage. He lived conservatively. It would be unfair – outrageous – to ask him and others to pay for other people’s losses.
ParticipantI have friends and relatives who are not in debt and who have lived by a policy of living below their means. My brother-in-law used to say “It’s not about how much money you make but how much you save.”
He will have his house paid off very soon, will collect a pension and has no credit card or car loans debt. I know he and his wife have made far less per year than myself and my wife have over the years.
All he – and others like him – should do is continue to pay his own fixed rate mortgage. He lived conservatively. It would be unfair – outrageous – to ask him and others to pay for other people’s losses.
Participantjimmyle,
I know, I drive into downtown L.A. 1-2x’s a week and I’ve taken the Metrolink a couple times. Even though the company I work for reimburses for mileage ($0.51/mile) I’m thinking about using the Metro more often when it fits my time schedule. For a 200 mile round trip drive I get back $102 then subtract my 25 mpg (8x$4=$32) and I end up with $70. Of course there’s the wear and tear on my car so if I make 8 LA trips/mo then thats $560/mo = $6720/yr. enough to pay for tires, brakes, car payments, oil changes and have some left over.
Participantjimmyle,
I know, I drive into downtown L.A. 1-2x’s a week and I’ve taken the Metrolink a couple times. Even though the company I work for reimburses for mileage ($0.51/mile) I’m thinking about using the Metro more often when it fits my time schedule. For a 200 mile round trip drive I get back $102 then subtract my 25 mpg (8x$4=$32) and I end up with $70. Of course there’s the wear and tear on my car so if I make 8 LA trips/mo then thats $560/mo = $6720/yr. enough to pay for tires, brakes, car payments, oil changes and have some left over.
Participantjimmyle,
I know, I drive into downtown L.A. 1-2x’s a week and I’ve taken the Metrolink a couple times. Even though the company I work for reimburses for mileage ($0.51/mile) I’m thinking about using the Metro more often when it fits my time schedule. For a 200 mile round trip drive I get back $102 then subtract my 25 mpg (8x$4=$32) and I end up with $70. Of course there’s the wear and tear on my car so if I make 8 LA trips/mo then thats $560/mo = $6720/yr. enough to pay for tires, brakes, car payments, oil changes and have some left over.
Participantjimmyle,
I know, I drive into downtown L.A. 1-2x’s a week and I’ve taken the Metrolink a couple times. Even though the company I work for reimburses for mileage ($0.51/mile) I’m thinking about using the Metro more often when it fits my time schedule. For a 200 mile round trip drive I get back $102 then subtract my 25 mpg (8x$4=$32) and I end up with $70. Of course there’s the wear and tear on my car so if I make 8 LA trips/mo then thats $560/mo = $6720/yr. enough to pay for tires, brakes, car payments, oil changes and have some left over.
Participantjimmyle,
I know, I drive into downtown L.A. 1-2x’s a week and I’ve taken the Metrolink a couple times. Even though the company I work for reimburses for mileage ($0.51/mile) I’m thinking about using the Metro more often when it fits my time schedule. For a 200 mile round trip drive I get back $102 then subtract my 25 mpg (8x$4=$32) and I end up with $70. Of course there’s the wear and tear on my car so if I make 8 LA trips/mo then thats $560/mo = $6720/yr. enough to pay for tires, brakes, car payments, oil changes and have some left over.
ParticipantI caught Ed and Pam McMahon on Larry King Live last night. Ed McMahon’s main theme was to express sympathy for the 1M homes in foreclosure and to talk about his home’s proximity to BSpears – ironic that he “discovered” her at age 10 on his Star Search show. They kept running the headline “1M Homes in Foreclosure” at the bottom of the screen. Their sentiments were that somehow someway they will survive.
“If you spend more money than you make, you know what happens,” McMahon said Thursday night on CNN’s “Larry King Live.” ”You know, a couple of divorces thrown in, a few things like that. And, you know, things happen.”
Here’s the live version: http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/news/bal-mcmahon0606,0,1892679.story
(Looks like the video link on that page is not working.)
ParticipantI caught Ed and Pam McMahon on Larry King Live last night. Ed McMahon’s main theme was to express sympathy for the 1M homes in foreclosure and to talk about his home’s proximity to BSpears – ironic that he “discovered” her at age 10 on his Star Search show. They kept running the headline “1M Homes in Foreclosure” at the bottom of the screen. Their sentiments were that somehow someway they will survive.
“If you spend more money than you make, you know what happens,” McMahon said Thursday night on CNN’s “Larry King Live.” ”You know, a couple of divorces thrown in, a few things like that. And, you know, things happen.”
Here’s the live version: http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/news/bal-mcmahon0606,0,1892679.story
(Looks like the video link on that page is not working.)
ParticipantI caught Ed and Pam McMahon on Larry King Live last night. Ed McMahon’s main theme was to express sympathy for the 1M homes in foreclosure and to talk about his home’s proximity to BSpears – ironic that he “discovered” her at age 10 on his Star Search show. They kept running the headline “1M Homes in Foreclosure” at the bottom of the screen. Their sentiments were that somehow someway they will survive.
“If you spend more money than you make, you know what happens,” McMahon said Thursday night on CNN’s “Larry King Live.” ”You know, a couple of divorces thrown in, a few things like that. And, you know, things happen.”
Here’s the live version: http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/news/bal-mcmahon0606,0,1892679.story
(Looks like the video link on that page is not working.)
ParticipantI caught Ed and Pam McMahon on Larry King Live last night. Ed McMahon’s main theme was to express sympathy for the 1M homes in foreclosure and to talk about his home’s proximity to BSpears – ironic that he “discovered” her at age 10 on his Star Search show. They kept running the headline “1M Homes in Foreclosure” at the bottom of the screen. Their sentiments were that somehow someway they will survive.
“If you spend more money than you make, you know what happens,” McMahon said Thursday night on CNN’s “Larry King Live.” ”You know, a couple of divorces thrown in, a few things like that. And, you know, things happen.”
Here’s the live version: http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/news/bal-mcmahon0606,0,1892679.story
(Looks like the video link on that page is not working.)
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