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[Set2Stun]

The trash talk or the fake money?

Both !

 

[Trish]

Both !

Haha perfect!

 

[Stuart Dren]

And a glass of Jack while I'm at it.

This phrasing immediately made me crave amber spirits for whatever reason.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

Daughter just texted to see if I can change back to the original plan of being in Washington by the 17th. She'd forgotten her au pair will be on vacation the week the baby is due. Pregnancy brain is real.

Now to readjust my schedule to complete in a week what I thought I had three weeks to complete. Rattlesnake/bullsnake article first. Chase me off if you catch me hanging around here too much over the next week. I have so little self-control...

 

[Louanne Learning]

Chase me off

We'll try, but we like your company...

 

[Trish]

Chase me off

I have so little self-control...

I have the same problem sometimes.

 

[Louanne Learning]

I have the same problem sometimes.

me three

 

[Schism]

me three

me 4

 

[CatrionaGrace]

It's nice to have company. We could arrange a support group, but who among us has the self-control to plan meetings, agendas, and hold people to them? Not me.

 

[Louanne Learning]

I am retired so don't do any organizing anymore, unless it's pizza and wings

 

[Set2Stun]

I've been "retired" for nearly 4 months now. I gotta say, I could get used to this. I don't want another job; I just want to keep doing fun things (well, and writing stuff, too).

 

[CatrionaGrace]

I've been retiring and rehiring on a regular basis since the 1990s, when I retired from dance for the first time (took me four tries and significant OA to get that right). Right now, I write.

 

[Homer Potvin]

I've been "retired" for nearly 4 months now. I gotta say, I could get used to this. I don't want another job; I just want to keep doing fun things (well, and writing stuff, too).

7 weeks for me and I could totally get used to it if it wasn't for the whole money thing. Having to replace my furnace half way through that didn't help. I think I might need to get me a lower case "job" sooner rather than later to stave off the necessity of the capital "JOB." It's more of a mental thing.

Totally not complaining. I'm at the tail end of the last generation that will be able to own their own home and retire. I had people working for me who made twice what I did at their age and they'll never be able to afford a home or contribute to an IRA. It is what it is.

 

[Set2Stun]

Yep, I missed the bus on home ownership and it will simply never happen now. Rent til I die, work til I die. Yay.

 

[Homer Potvin]

Yep, I missed the bus on home ownership and it will simply never happen now. Rent til I die, work til I die. Yay.

After replacing said furnace and a fence and eventually the roof in the next few years, there are arguments in both directions. My mortgage is half what I would pay in rent, but toss in the other shit, and we get a lot closer. Theoretically, the house matures in value and you sell it for a boatload of cash but then you have to... pay to live someplace else? I don't want to think about it.

 

[Set2Stun]

Yeah, there's taxes, tons of maintenance, various risks. My mom just had her roof done $$$. But ultimately it's an investment, which is far better than pissing away money on rent. It's wild to me that there's a generation of people who both own a home AND have a pension and retirement savings. I ain't gonna have either.

 

[Stuart Dren]

After replacing said furnace and a fence and eventually the roof in the next few years, there are arguments in both directions. My mortgage is half what I would pay in rent, but toss in the other shit, and we get a lot closer.

Yeah, there's taxes, tons of maintenance, various risks. My mom just had her roof done $$$. But ultimately it's an investment, which is far better than pissing away money on rent. It's wild to me that there's a generation of people who both own a home AND have a pension and retirement savings. I ain't gonna have either.

Yeah it sucks. Thousands of dollars on a major appliance and roof, and... congratulations, the house at least won't significantly lose value.

I still think ownership is better overall, but there are a lot of * on that.

Theoretically, the house matures in value and you sell it for a boatload of cash but then you have to... pay to live someplace else? I don't want to think about it.

Maybe if you retire to a lower cost area. I'm ride-till-die on cars and probably my house, though for the latter it's when I die. Then it will get demo'd and replaced with multi unit.

 

[Homer Potvin]

Yeah, there's taxes, tons of maintenance, various risks. My mom just had her roof done $$$. But ultimately it's an investment, which is far better than pissing away money on rent. It's wild to me that there's a generation of people who both own a home AND have a pension and retirement savings. I ain't gonna have either.

My grandpa used to tell me to try living through the Depression or get shot at by Nazis whenever I thought I had it rough. Now the younglings tell me to try living in a world with no housing and AI taking all the jobs. I guess I hit the creamy middle?

 

[Stuart Dren]

My grandpa used to tell me to try living through the Depression or get shot at by Nazis whenever I thought I had it rough. Now the younglings tell me to try living in a world with no housing and AI taking all the jobs. I guess I hit the creamy middle?

I think you're a bit late. Boomers, nineteen 50-60s. $17k houses. Ridiculously high wages for manufacturing. One earner.

Though you're US, so I guess you could have been drafted.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

Man, I hate being called a boomer. That arbitrary designation supposedly covers the years from the end of WWII thought 1964. Folks born in the mid-fifties comprise a group with vastly different experiences than people born soon after WWII who came of age during Vietnam. My husband is 6 years older than I am; his tales of youth and young adulthood sound like something out of a book to me.