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Are you obsessed with money?

SSSnail

SSSnail

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If I didn't know any better, I would think there are nothing but a bunch of scrooges, and bros, and attention whores on this forum from glancing at the thread titles.

Anyways, are you obsessed with money?
 
All the threads are due to the fact that's it's the beginning of 2015 and people are wondering how to invest fresh money into their IRA's and 401k's.

These type of $$$ threads get refreshed every year around this time.

If you ain't thinking of your honey pot for retirement on a yearly basis, don't go crying to your kids for housing & food when you're an old fart due to that you only saved up $20k and blew the rest on hookers and beer. 😉
 
Perhaps. I was poor as a child and don't want to go back to that. If I ever want a car, I want to be able to walk into a dealership and hand over cash for it.
 
When I was growing up my parents were poor as fuck. My dad worked for the fed gov, my mom stayed at home. My parents had a foreclosure and 2 bankrupcies when I was growing up. During a foreclosure my dad was spending money on a attorney to try to save the house. We didn't have money for a thanksgiving meal. When I went to school the best my parents could pack for me was a pb sandwich and a apple. My mom would sew patches on all the holes on my clothes. Now I make more than my parents ever made.

So yes in a way money is very important to me.
 
dr150 said:
All the threads are due to the fact that's it's the beginning of 2015 and people are wondering how to invest fresh money into their IRA's and 401k's.

These type of $$$ threads get refreshed every year around this time.

If you ain't thinking of your honey pot for retirement on a yearly basis, don't go crying to your kids for housing & food when you're an old fart due to that you only saved up $20k and blew the rest on hookers and beer. 😉
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That 20k can buy you a good amount of hookers and beer though.
 
Obsessed? Maybe you could say that. But not obsessed with making money, obsessed with managing my finances. I am not part of the ATOT 1% so I have to be careful with my financial decisions and live within my means. That takes discipline.
 
SSSnail said:
If I didn't know any better, I would think there are nothing but a bunch of scrooges, and bros, and attention whores on this forum from glancing at the thread titles.

Anyways, are you obsessed with money?
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You made the thread, are you obsessed with money?
 
SSSnail said:
If I didn't know any better, I would think there are nothing but a bunch of scrooges, and bros, and attention whores on this forum from glancing at the thread titles.

Anyways, are you obsessed with money?
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I'm not obsessed with money so much as I am freedom and flexibility. When you rely on someone else for a paycheck you are essentially a slave. If I stopped working today I would starve in about 9 months. I would love to get the point where I don't need to work for money and can do what I want when I want.
 
Only up to $500k or $1 million -- former is enough to live like a bum for the rest of my life, the latter is so I can live okay for the rest.
 
Imp said:
Only up to $500k or $1 million -- former is enough to live like a bum for the rest of my life, the latter is so I can live okay for the rest.
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That was true in 1970.

You gotta ramp those figures up substantially.
 
steppinthrax said:
When I was growing up my parents were poor as fuck. My dad worked for the fed gov, my mom stayed at home. My parents had a foreclosure and 2 bankrupcies when I was growing up. During a foreclosure my dad was spending money on a attorney to try to save the house. We didn't have money for a thanksgiving meal. When I went to school the best my parents could pack for me was a pb sandwich and a apple. My mom would sew patches on all the holes on my clothes. Now I make more than my parents ever made.

So yes in a way money is very important to me.
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Wha? He worked for the Federal Gov and he didn't make enough to live on? If it wasn't enough to support a family surely he must have qualified for aid? Or were you living in a house well above your means? If you were that dirt poor, wouldn't you have qualified for free school lunches? And no money for Thanksgiving? No Salvation Army where you lived throwing a free meal for low income families? Heck even the Urban Mission around here gives away free frozen turkeys to the poor and I live in rural farm country. If it's a case of a proud father not willing to accept the help that's offered of course, that's something else.
 
steppinthrax said:
When I was growing up my parents were poor as f***. My dad worked for the fed gov, my mom stayed at home. My parents had a foreclosure and 2 bankrupcies when I was growing up. During a foreclosure my dad was spending money on a attorney to try to save the house. We didn't have money for a thanksgiving meal. When I went to school the best my parents could pack for me was a pb sandwich and a apple. My mom would sew patches on all the holes on my clothes. Now I make more than my parents ever made.

So yes in a way money is very important to me.
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"listen to me, son: you need to work 2 jobs at the same time"
 
Sonikku said:
Wha? He worked for the Federal Gov and he didn't make enough to live on? If it wasn't enough to support a family surely he must have qualified for aid? Or were you living in a house well above your means? If you were that dirt poor, wouldn't you have qualified for free school lunches? And no money for Thanksgiving? No Salvation Army where you lived throwing a free meal for low income families? Heck even the Urban Mission around here gives away free frozen turkeys to the poor and I live in rural farm country. If it's a case of a proud father not willing to accept the help that's offered of course, that's something else.
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It was a combo of both. My dad was a lazy fucker, you know how gov people are. He just came to work and did the bare minimal. Also my parents were to overproud to accept aid from someone. In addition my mom was a gold-digging bitch whore. My mom would push the living fuck out of my dad to buy buy buy, we ended up buying a home that was well above his means and my parents in general were famous for making god awful fucked up financial decisions.

Now the house that they had purchased wasn't really that big, it was because he worked for the feds and we all know fed gov salaries!!!! Sad thing is they got another home (even bigger) and they are so far underwater on their mortgage, the home sits right next to Malaysian Air flight 370.....
 
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