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So my wife is in Japan again until the 25th...

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Wow this thread was interesting. I've never associated with the OP on here but he's the newest member of my ignore list due to being a rude asshole.

Congrats.
 
Nebor said:
The reason you get picked on is because you go in every thread on here and call everyone poor. Whether it's how they sort their laundry, what kind of clothes they buy, what kind of knives they buy or whatever.

$20 for a single pizza is expensive for what it is, coming from someone with 80 Papa's Points on his account. 😀
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I can take the heat, the thing that I laugh about is those poor fucks prove the point by focusing on how I am off my rocker about a freaking picked up pizza being $20.

I'd have rather tipped the $5 and had it dropped off and my wife not bothered waiting for it.

I really don't have a problem with the poor as a whole, there are a few I am paying for Costco memberships and the like for. I have a problem when the typical poster here that has a computer desk that looks like no one has dusted in 30 years, lives at home, and then trys to claim they are important in some way.

I also have a problem with many of these people that were constantly riding my ass over the years for not buying a big screen TV, newer car (they used to love to dog on my Saturn), while I was paying off a HUGE amount of debt.

In a couple months I will be debt free. Yes I will have $26k in school loans left, but I only pay $125 a month and all the interest at 3.6% is mostly a direct write off 🙂

I think those people do not understand that being able to afford something doesn't mean because you have that much on credit available or sitting in a savings account.
 
chalmers said:
Wow this thread was interesting. I've never associated with the OP on here but he's the newest member of my ignore list due to being a rude asshole.

Congrats.
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This you?

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You could skip the fucking post you know, you don't have to read the whole internut each night.

However, thank you for ignoring me, you simply lack the intelligence to be helpful anyway.
 
$26,000 in school loans, a mortgage on your house and heading down to buy $50,000 worth of new cars does not equal debt free, get over yourself already.
 
alky is just a minimum wage waiter.

and surprised he didnt tip $5 on the $20 pizza. waiter's guilt and all
 
Sluggo said:
$26,000 in school loans, a mortgage on your house and heading down to buy $50,000 worth of new cars does not equal debt free, get over yourself already.
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what's the big problem to you above?

cars are a debt yes...

my school loans at 3.6% are a laugh...you do realize each additional year I pay I am actually paying less with all this inflation. All the interest I write off as well.

People that pay off their homes are usually idiots except at retirement.
 
JEDI said:
alky is just a minimum wage waiter.

and surprised he didnt tip $5 on the $20 pizza. waiter's guilt and all
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No, I have been a food delivery driver. I did that part-time at night in my teens-early 20's. It was my play money. I also worked doing DB/computer work/mortgage work during the day.

Maybe I did it wrong, but I was able to by a canalfront home in one of the better neighborhoods I lived around at 23....3 bed/2 bath/2 car garage on a 1/2 acre.

I was used to $2-3 tips 20 years ago. $5 is completely fair especially as pizza drivers get fucked.

I worked chinese food in the same plaza Dominoes was in. They'd take 4-5x the deliveries and make about 30% of what I did at the end of a night. I could also have a girlfriend as a co-pilot and manage my own bank...
 
alkemyst said:
what's the big problem to you above?

cars are a debt yes...

my school loans at 3.6% are a laugh...you do realize each additional year I pay I am actually paying less with all this inflation. All the interest I write off as well.

People that pay off their homes are usually idiots except at retirement.
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So you make less than $120k? Hmm, not quite as baller as I expected of you.
 
alkemyst said:
I can take the heat, the thing that I laugh about is those poor fucks prove the point by focusing on how I am off my rocker about a freaking picked up pizza being $20.

I'd have rather tipped the $5 and had it dropped off and my wife not bothered waiting for it.

I really don't have a problem with the poor as a whole, there are a few I am paying for Costco memberships and the like for. I have a problem when the typical poster here that has a computer desk that looks like no one has dusted in 30 years, lives at home, and then trys to claim they are important in some way.

I also have a problem with many of these people that were constantly riding my ass over the years for not buying a big screen TV, newer car (they used to love to dog on my Saturn), while I was paying off a HUGE amount of debt.

In a couple months I will be debt free. Yes I will have $26k in school loans left, but I only pay $125 a month and all the interest at 3.6% is mostly a direct write off 🙂

I think those people do not understand that being able to afford something doesn't mean because you have that much on credit available or sitting in a savings account.
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You're just like those Evangelical ministers that protest all over the place about being gay is a sin and they going to hell yet they get caught raping little boys.
 
alkemyst said:
What's an expensive pizza to you? IMHO $20 is expensive for a pizza especially one that was picked up.

Sounds like you are speaking out your ass though...

Post up some pictures of your badass house so we can laugh. You have already been asked once for pics of the wife and refused so we know where that leaves you.

University of Phoenix, seriously?
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An expensive pizza? I don't know, maybe $33 deep dish? When the grocery store wants $5+ for a Tombstone?

My house isn't that badass. It's your very average cape cod style house. 1000 sq. ft. first floor and we use the 300 sq. ft. upstairs as an office/computer room.

I already told you, my company is paying me to go, this type of school is best for someone who needs a flexible schedule and already has a career. I work full time, have a young child, am married, and have a home to keep up. I really just need to complete the degree for advancement, my company doesn't really care where it's from. It's accredited and it will be a degree in an area that will help advance my career. I'll be the first to admit the quality of the education is lacking in my opinion. I don't need the knowledge, I need a piece of paper from an accredited university.

The difference betewen you and me is that I don't post like I'm some kind of high roller, you do. I'm a very average person by most standards, and I don't try to post like I'm something I'm not. Despite your attempts to appear to us as a big baller; you have a hallway kitchen, drive a Saturn, and are married to older woman who you cheat on and whine to and discuss the economics of pizza with.

I hope you don't give your wife an STD. You're a pretty classy guy. :thumbsdown:
 
Originally I found alkemyst to be self-aggrandizing, with a heavy helping of douche bag but now I just feel sorry for him and his desperate posts which seem to be a cry for help.
 
alkemyst said:
what's the big problem to you above?

cars are a debt yes...

my school loans at 3.6% are a laugh...you do realize each additional year I pay I am actually paying less with all this inflation. All the interest I write off as well.

People that pay off their homes are usually idiots except at retirement.
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You write off the interest? You're in the US, correct?

You're a fucking lying ass dog if you want to come on here claiming to be some type of baller while making less than $1201-150k when married filing jointly.

So which is it, do you make more than 120k and can't deduct your interest and are a fucking liar or do you make less than 120k-150k and are a fucking liar?
 
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mwtgg said:
So you make less than $120k? Hmm, not quite as baller as I expected of you.
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I guess I will lose that this year. It's prorated up to 150k ADJUSTED gross income, but I may lose that deducation this year. I thought the cap was $200k.

I didn't realize 120k wasn't considered a lot of money though, but I am not quite making the proverbial $250k/year everyone else makes here.

It's not a lot of money anyway in interest anyway, a little under $1000 per year. I think I can write off $600ish...I just plug it all into turbotax and whatever happens at the end is what I go with.
 
LegendKiller said:
You write off the interest? You're in the US, correct?

You're a fucking lying ass dog if you want to come on here claiming to be some type of baller while making less than $1201-150k when married filing jointly.

So which is it, do you make more than 120k and can't deduct your interest and are a fucking liar or do you make less than 120k-150k and are a fucking liar?
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Again dude, it's adjusted gross income, but like in another thread my income nearly doubled since last year.

I wasn't doing that bad before. I was prorated last year on it. It's not going to make much difference after this year as 2013 the school loan deduction period is only for the first 5 years...

I guess it may be possible I didn't get any deduction this past year. I know I had a lot of write-offs since I do self-employment work. I will not be doing any really this year as my new position keeps me busy enough.
 
alkemyst said:
People that pay off their homes are usually idiots except at retirement.
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To each is own I suppose but I strongly disagree with that statement.

As for interest write offs, I've never understood the enjoyment of paying 100% interest only to get 1/4 to 1/3 of that back. *shrugs*
 
SlowSpyder said:
An expensive pizza? I don't know, maybe $33 deep dish? When the grocery store wants $5+ for a Tombstone?

My house isn't that badass. It's your very average cape cod style house. 1000 sq. ft. first floor and we use the 300 sq. ft. upstairs as an office/computer room.

I already told you, my company is paying me to go, this type of school is best for someone who needs a flexible schedule and already has a career. I work full time, have a young child, am married, and have a home to keep up. I really just need to complete the degree for advancement, my company doesn't really care where it's from. It's accredited and it will be a degree in an area that will help advance my career. I'll be the first to admit the quality of the education is lacking in my opinion. I don't need the knowledge, I need a piece of paper from an accredited university.

The difference betewen you and me is that I don't post like I'm some kind of high roller, you do. I'm a very average person by most standards, and I don't try to post like I'm something I'm not. Despite your attempts to appear to us as a big baller; you have a hallway kitchen, drive a Saturn, and are married to older woman who you cheat on and whine to and discuss the economics of pizza with.

I hope you don't give your wife an STD. You're a pretty classy guy. :thumbsdown:
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Right, like I mentioned I have paid much more for a pizza at a RESTAURANT....$20 to pick the damn thing up is another matter.

Just to bring you up to speed since you seem to care. My home is about 1800 sq ft...not huge, not small...there are only two of us here. The kitchen is typical of many S. Florida homes...I drive a 1998 Nissan 240SX, which I will be getting rid of in a few months. They still go for about $6500-7500 in the condition mine is in around here. Not bad for a 15 year old car.

I did have a Saturn, a 1996 I bought in 1999 cash to go back to college. I owned a new 1997 VW GTI VR6 I sold when I went back to college. I quit work and did it full time, savings and some loans....not no bullshit University of Phoenix crap. There are FAR better correspondant universities and if you were worth anything your company would be doing that.

I don't know what STD's have to do with anything...when you were dating did you get those all the time or something or was your wife your first and you knocked her up? That's probably the only reason you are married, without the kid she'd have dumped you.

You are average like you said.
 
Engineer said:
To each is own I suppose but I strongly disagree with that statement.

As for interest write offs, I've never understood the enjoyment of paying 100% interest only to get 1/4 to 1/3 of that back. *shrugs*
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It's depends on income and the interest as well as the amount it's costing. A tax advisor is usually best to determine what works best for you. For most paying off their home is actually the wrong way to go. This only works if that money not going to paying off the home is going into savings.
 
Anyway I had a blast last night...don't know WTF happened here though one of my boganvillas was ripped off the wall and all the lattice torn away, maybe a mini torando.
 
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