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02-17-2024, 07:05 PM | #466 | |
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02-17-2024, 08:01 PM | #467 |
Be Kind To Your Pets
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Tonight we ran out of cat food so I made a trip up to Price Chopper to get a bag. On the way out this kid was panhandling people. "Hey Dad (he says) how bout a fiver?" At first I didn't say anything, then I stopped and turned around. "How old are you?" says I. "Eighteen he says." Shit man, I'm almost 65 and I have TWO jobs. What's wrong with you?" He says "I can't get an ID." I say "Price Chopper will give you a job if you just ask." "I don't want to work in a grocery" he says. I just shook my head and walked on. Damn kids.
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02-17-2024, 08:09 PM | #468 |
THE RED MENACE
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The definition of getting old should be hurting yourself while your sleeping.
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02-17-2024, 08:09 PM | #469 | |
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS
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I suspect that my brain secretly hates me. |
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02-17-2024, 08:11 PM | #470 |
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Smells like moth balls in this bitch.
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02-17-2024, 08:16 PM | #471 |
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02-17-2024, 10:05 PM | #472 |
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To all the old geezers…… when you retired did you downsize your housing situation when you retired? Use your house equity to pay for a smaller house so you had no mortgage?
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02-17-2024, 10:18 PM | #473 |
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02-17-2024, 10:22 PM | #474 |
The Maintenance Guy
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Yes, but instead I'm buying a Corvette in a few weeks. I don't even care if I'm blind. YOLO
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02-17-2024, 10:22 PM | #475 | |
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I would definitely figure out a way to be mortgage free when retired. It just frees up a significant amount of money. |
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02-17-2024, 10:35 PM | #476 | |
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The house insurance is normal. Hurricane and flood insurance are going through the roof. Once I retire, it’s a fixed income and savings alone. Some neighbors saw their hurricane insurance go up $17K in one year. Ours went up $5k. On a fixed budget, not wanting to use savings, a $17K hike in insurance scares us financially. Okay, we figure it out one year, what about the next $17k or more increase? We can cash out and move out of the flood zone. Move to a good condo and look out at the open water as we sit on the couch. We can get to several housing options with no mortgage and no flood/hurricane insurance. But, we like it here. I’m sure we’d find a different place that we loved too. Decisions decisions.. How did you guys handle it? Probably most stayed in their existing house? Last edited by BigRedChief; 02-17-2024 at 10:42 PM.. |
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02-17-2024, 10:41 PM | #477 |
Seize life. Be an ermine.
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02-18-2024, 06:28 AM | #478 | |
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It has at times, seemed like a conspiracy against us boomers that are no longer working to get compensation that rises with inflation. One of those items is the home insurance similar to your issue with flood insurance and we have had to change carriers twice, drop replacement coverage, and vastly increase our deductible to attempt to stay in the comfort zone. Last edited by HemiEd; 02-18-2024 at 07:04 AM.. |
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02-18-2024, 08:15 AM | #479 | |
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When you wont be getting a better job or promotion to being more money into the household. The income is what the income is, its not changing. Inflation goes up or the market changes on something you must have like insurance. You just have to take the hit. Sorry to hear you have already dealt with something similar to my dilemma. But, glad to hear its kind of universal thing in retirement. |
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02-18-2024, 08:24 AM | #480 | |
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It’s definitely something those in retirement have to calculate. I cringe for my retirement in decades because we’ll be living solely off investments as pensions don’t exist anymore. |
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