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svelteParticipantlol! Love it!
A fifteen year old Amish boy and his father were in a mall. They were amazed by almost everything they saw, but especially by two shiny, silver walls that could move apart and then slide back together again.
The boy asked, ‘What is this Father?’The father (never having seen an elevator) responded, ‘Son, I have never seen anything like this in my life, I don’t know what it is.’
While the boy and his father were watching with amazement, a frail old lady walked up to the moving walls and pressed a button. The walls opened, and the lady shuffled between them into a small room. The walls closed and the boy and his father watched the small numbers above the walls light up sequentially.
They continued to watch until it reached the last number… and then the numbers began to light in the reverse order.
Finally the walls opened up again and a gorgeous 24-year-old blond stepped out. The father, not taking his eyes off the young woman, said quietly to his son…..
‘Go get your Mother’svelteParticipantI think he has said before they are seeing a marriage counselor.
As for what the therapist said, I agree. Money can indeed make you happier if you are living paycheck to paycheck.
But once you have enough that you don’t have to worry about food or shelter for the rest of your life (and most of us on here are or will be in that state), then the rest is gravy. Adding more gravy will have a much smaller effect on your happiness. I’d say the same thing about real gravy on my mashed potatoes by the way.
svelteParticipant[quote=pencilneck]https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/43-Courthouse-Dr-Guildhall-VT-05905/193818039_zpid/?mmlb=g,18
There is a lot to love here[/quote]
I see a child’s riding toy. Imagine growing up and explaining to people your parent’s house had 10 jail cells in the back.
They might take a step back.
svelteParticipantI was up in norcal a couple years ago waiting in a bank lobby for a bank rep to grant us access to my recently deceased dads safe deposit box. Dad had left me the key to it, but hadn’t told me what was in it.
A friend from my childhood happened in the bank and we chatted for a while – I hadn’t seen him in going on 35 years.
He asked why I was in town and I told him. He asked what was in the safe deposit box and I said I honestly had no idea.
He smiled as he walked away and said “hope you find a gold bar!!”
That has stuck with me. I’m going to buy a gold bar for each of my kids and leave them in my safe deposit box. They may be tiny gold bars, but gold bars nonetheless. And I’m not going to tell them they are there. It will be my little post-passing surprise for them.
svelteParticipant[quote=scaredyclassic]I view housecleaning as a form of exercise. Done with extreme speed, it is highly aerobic. My strategy over the years has been doing a lot of cleaning at high speed with fair to poor quality. I finish very quickly and do a ‘C” job. This irritates my wife and so, I broke down and will pay in the interest of matrimonial harmony. But let the record reflect that this was over my vigorous objection. Although it is nice how clean she gets the house. Not worth the money to me, but definitely to my wife. I go way too fast to get it that clean.
Also, doing the dishes can lead to enlightenment. See e.g. Mr natural does the dishes.
[/quote]lol an ongoing conversation in our house, over a series of years.
On any day when my sons or I do the dishes and put them away:
Wife: (pulling a dish from the cabinet) “You call THAT clean??” (picking off a tiny speck of something from some crevice)
Us: “Well, yeah….man clean”
svelteParticipant[quote=scaredyclassic]I feel the biggest gains come from just not spending money and investing that. How much have I saved over 20 years by not having a cleaning person. It’s staggering! 100k? No dry cleaning shirts ever, iron myself, hmm, 30k? Eating just cabbage and oats for a month? Cheapest vodka? I think one can get almost rich just being ridiculously frugal.
[/quote]How old will you and your wife be in 20 years? Will it really matter if you had saved that cleaning lady money? I have a feeling you’ve socked away quite a nest egg as it is.
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I did just break down and hire a cleaning person recently because my poor wife can’t take it anymore. Man, the place looks clean…but is it better to have money in the account or dust on the shelves?[/quote]We must be going on 20 years of having a house cleaner come in twice a month. 2 women x 2.5 hours x 2 times = 10 hours/month. We also have a gardener – 2 hours x 4 times = 8 hours/month. We feel it is well worth it.
Our free time is very valuable.
My goal is not to die with as big a pile of money as I can gather. it is to have enough to live comfortably the rest of my life and still leave a little something to the kids, not make them wealthy.
svelteParticipantThat is awesome!!! I laughed all the way through it!
svelteParticipant[quote=sdrealtor] I have heard that they are trying to push all kids that live North of 56 to CSU San Marcos which is booming in its own right and is the fast rising star in the CSU system. The founder of Viasat and the company donated a ton to start up an engineering school there. They are building massively after acquiring many acres of land surrounding the campus to the west of Twin Oaks. Kaiser adjacent to that is expanding massively too. Everywhere I look I see growth and more high paying jobs coming. Really the perfect storm brewing here.
[/quote]Spot on with all of that SDR.
We live in San Marcos and it seems like every time we drive off our normal path we say “WHAT? Where did that building come from??” The CSUSM campus is probably the greatest thing ever to happen to this town. Well, if one likes growth anyway. 🙂
And my family is excitedly watching CSUSM deep dive into engineering. Very happy about that.
svelteParticipant[quote=scaredyclassic]
Telemedicine will be commonplace, I don’t think that trend will reverse. My wife’s doing it. It’s very very VERY efficient. Having bodies late and milling about an office slows things down. Obviously some issues will require physical presence, but a shocking number do not.
38x more telehealth encounters than prepandemic…but now stabilizing…
[/quote]I worked for a startup producing telemed software over two decades ago. Turns out the world was not ready for it at that time. Not just from a social perspective from a legal angle as well. Looks like the world is now ready!
If anything postive has come from this whole pandemic period, it is that it forced the business and government communities to rethink their positions on the workplace and what can be done remotely. And that is a great thing.
svelteParticipant[quote=scaredyclassic]
I do however take 2 caps of turmeric every day. I believe in turmeric!!! Under control, no urge to take more turmeric. Weed, no, I fall right to sleep. Not fun. Didn’t have this effect when I was 20.[/quote]Aha! So you’re the one causing the Great Turmeric Shortage of 2022!
Scroll halfway down, to just above the photo of the red McCormick’s caps.
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2022-mccormick-franks-cholula-hot-sauce-supremacy/
(the whole article is pretty interesting, actually)
svelteParticipant[quote=bibsoconner]
*You can Google this all and do your own research. In all seriousness, the evidence for all three seems scanty at best. On the other hand, having watched my mom die from this horrible disease, I’d swallow bleach if I thought there was a reasonable chance it would prevent it.[/quote]Sorry to hear about your mother.
Because of that, we have a similar reaction to women and breast cancer. Most of the women in my life have had it and some have died from it. Broccoli is supposed to ward it off somewhat.
We eat a LOT of broccoli in our house and I’ve grown to love it. I never hated it, but now I love it.
svelteParticipant[quote=Coronita]like everything else in life, moderation of stuff is good. Excessive stuff is bad…
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I’ll take my coffee, black, no sugar , no cream.[/quote]
So apparently you like the taste of coffee.
I submit to you many people don’t thus the attempt to disguise the taste with sugar, cream, espresso, latte, cappuccino, etc etc
stepping back even further, I don’t see any benefit to caffeine and thus avoid it. If I saw a benefit I would relax that rule but I don’t.
March 10, 2022 at 1:49 PM in reply to: Ot. Nothing to see here, just a nuclear plant bombed and on fire… #824258svelteParticipant[quote=spdrun]This isn’t 1979. There is no shortage of fuel. Russian oil is about 10% of US consumption. The price rise is due mainly to speculation. We shouldn’t be taking coercive steps to keep gas cheap. We should be thinking about how to rebuild our economy to not use fossil fuels for transport like it’s still 1960.[/quote]
My wife asked me last weekend why gas had went up so much recently – I didn’t have a good answer.
And actually, the earth had more oil in 1979 than it does now as we’ve been burning more of the reserves over the last 43 years.
Part of me wonders if the oil industry sees the giant drop in demand coming so they are milking us for as much as they can now. While they still have a lil leverage.
svelteParticipantI’ve never had a cup of coffee in my life. Ever. I’ve had a sip and it tasted so putrid I never was even tempted.
It was only about 10 years ago I figured out I should cut out all forms of caffeine (I was a big tea drinker). So 10 years ago I dropped tea. I’ve never been much for soda but if I’m ever backed into a position where that’s the only choice I’ll drink Root Beer. And yes I know not all RB is caffeine free – I check first.
Truthfully the only difference I noticed was that it was easier to fall asleep once I went caffeine-free. Still not incredibly easy for me, but a bit easier.
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