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To P&N Posters: How do you rate your financial situation?

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What is your financial situation?

  • Wealthy

  • Well-off

  • Doing pretty good

  • Getting by

  • Struggling

  • Impoverished

Results are only viewable after voting.
They say the surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Good thing I worked my way up from nothing -to a state of extreme poverty.

(quotes stolen from Groucho Marx and Napoleon Bonaparte)
 
I went for getting by only because we are paying a lot more every month on our mortgage and a personal loan in order to pay them off sooner (2 years for mortgage, 6 months for personal loan). We use a credit card for gas and groceries and pay it off every month. We keep enough for some fun and frivolous things. I'm retired, wife still working.
 
I have no debt and I have some money left at the end of the month. I fit in somewhere between doing well and getting by...
 
Have plenty of money in savings = how much is that? $100K? $250K?

Let see. I have zero debt. Make decent money. I can sleep well at night because I don't have to worry about my next check.

I would not mind to be stinking rich as in multi millionaire = at least $100M.
 
Steeplerot said:
They say the surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Good thing I worked my way up from nothing -to a state of extreme poverty.

(quotes stolen from Groucho Marx and Napoleon Bonaparte)
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I noticed that you consider yourself to be struggling, I though you lived in the most perfect place in the whole wide world.
 
How do I rate myself? I live at home and have 0 bills. I make almost make more money than my mom but im only 18. Im not wealthy, but I can buy what I want when I want it.
 
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I noticed that you consider yourself to be struggling, I though you lived in the most perfect place in the whole wide world.
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The struggle is life itself.

Not struggling for me is massive fleets of giant red battlecruisers under my command surrounding the nearby solar system with the capitalists crushed under the hammer of the peoples might...at the very least. :twisted:

Still got a lot of struggles ahead. Since you care so much.

Joking aside, I am not a "material possession" type person. Stuff is just that, stuff. Easy come easy go, I travel light.
 
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I am extremely interested to compare these results and who voted to their political ideology.

For instance if Spidey07 is "impoverished" or mcowen is "well off" i'd laugh my ass off. I'd almost bet the "well offs" tend to vote Republican and "struggling" vote Democrat, or something along those lines.

Would be a good project at least. I know the vast majority of Apple users (desktops) are Liberals, why I have no idea.
 
Moonbeam said:
I have a fabulous caravan of wealth on its way to me and a cornucopia of endless bounty.
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I have my wealth and my treasure. It is where my heart is. Money? It's nice, but it's not what is meaningful. It's being able to look hard in the mirror and knowing that one has tried. It's the love and respect of those who matter to you. Those have more lasting value.
 
nextJin said:
I am extremely interested to compare these results and who voted to their political ideology.

For instance if Spidey07 is "impoverished" or mcowen is "well off" i'd laugh my ass off. I'd almost bet the "well offs" tend to vote Republican and "struggling" vote Democrat, or something along those lines.

Would be a good project at least. I know the vast majority of Apple users (desktops) are Liberals, why I have no idea.
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That's the stereotype, but it's hard to say how true it is for a generally more educated bunch in a tech forum.

I chose "well off" but don't vote straight ticket for either party or accept either party's platforms: I'll be choosing Obama as the lesser evil, but voting for McKenna (a Republican) for governor of Washington. Local races will be a mix of R and D.

I support across the board spending cuts including military and social programs, together with some tax increases. That doesn't fit either party, and doesn't fit the stereotype of the well-off protecting their money by approving of the unfunded tax cuts we have now.
 
Hayabusa Rider said:
I have my wealth and my treasure. It is where my heart is. Money? It's nice, but it's not what is meaningful. It's being able to look hard in the mirror and knowing that one has tried. It's the love and respect of those who matter to you. Those have more lasting value.
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Then you probably have little need for The Story of the Magic Horse. It helps delineate the difference between the path of those who love mechanical fish and seekers of one's heart's desire. I wish more children could read it. I can't find it anywhere on the net, last time I looked.
 
I'm Impoverished. I make absolutely no money and will have absolutely no prospects for the next 2 years, at least. On top of that I have 70k in debt, which will be over 100k within 2 years.

Fun times.
 
Steeplerot said:
The struggle is life itself.

Not struggling for me is massive fleets of giant red battlecruisers under my command surrounding the nearby solar system with the capitalists crushed under the hammer of the peoples might...at the very least. :twisted:

Still got a lot of struggles ahead. Since you care so much.

Joking aside, I am not a "material possession" type person. Stuff is just that, stuff. Easy come easy go, I travel light.
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LOL, you do make me chuckle from time to time... 😛
 
Getting by. My teaching job doesn't pay all that well compared to any other math-related field or even my public school counterparts. The wife is also still unemployed as the job market for her field is quite saturated around here. 🙁 We get by, sure, but things need to improve if we hope to one day retire. We're still young, so we have time, but we can't wait forever.
 
Somewhere between "getting by" and "doing pretty well". I do make contributions to my retirement (to get matching funds from my employer), but I don't have much left over at the end of the month after that. Since I'm also still driving a 15 year old car that will inevitably have to be replaced or repaired, that's going mean I'll be working with even less (especially if I have a car note and comprehensive insurance for it).

A few years ago I would have thought I'd be pretty damn comfortable with the salary I have now. Not so.
 
Pretty good I suppose. Can't say work has really been fully stable and consistent for the past 3 years, but all my bills are paid, plus usually have extra left over (but not always, I've had a month here and there where I pull from last month's extra). I am putting some into retirement, and I have almost all my debt paid off (just a small piece of a student loan left). I am single so that helps the finances I suppose.
 
Getting by. living on 28,500 a year isn't rich but its good enough. No debt (own my car, don't own a house- pay rent). Going to start contributing to retirement (on that income.....yeah laugh all you want....😛 )
 
I voted "wealthy" as I have no debt, my kids's college education is all saved for and I could live pretty well if I stopped working today. I think I would hit the very bottom of that category and I am not going to be buying any jets in the near term, for example.

Money is "no object" because I have inexpensive tastes.

Otherwise "well off" is probably OK as well.

Michael
 
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I got a great engineering job right out of college and I'm doing pretty well.

I've got a decent size network of engineering friends after attending two universities and I can honestly say every single one has got a job within a year, many instantly and many had numerous offers.

Although, coming from the projects, I believe my view of doing well is relatively lax.
 
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