Put a dash between the words. www.early-retirement.org
Put a dash between the words. www.early-retirement.org
"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler." ~ Albert Einstein
We still do a lot of potlucks etc with our friends. Usually when we go out it’s alone. We find with a group it’s easier st a house for great conversation and we can stay as long as we want.
Got it. Thank you Alan.
Well said Stevie. Married 38y. Same town for 39y. No children. Both college graduates working in our fields. DH with same employer since 1993 and me only my 3rd since 1980 (current 17y). Same home since 1991. No debt. Good health X2. DH has high BP but treating it. My knee replacement was d/t injury not osteoarthritis. We live on 35% of our income because we have minimal expenses. Hence $10 cocktails don't bother me in the least.
Our expenses this year are running right at our 2012 expenses and that includes my knee replacement out-of-pocket costs so this year has been good to us!
So yes, comparing to others is like fruit salad. I know people who make far more than us and can't afford what we do. And others who are so dang frugal they do far more than we do. And many who do far more on far less and have debt up the wazoo!
I agree with your post. While it's hard NOT to compare, I usually find that most peoples' outsides are not for me to begin with. But *sometimes* I find these types of conversations so pointedly emphasize the growing economic and thus social gaps that exist within my own neighborhood as well as across the country... it's not surprising the current attitudes and emotions that are being seen. I just think it's sad. (sorry, know I'm not stating this well, but... only my first cup of coffee. LOL)
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer." Mahatma Gandhi
Be nice whenever possible. It's always possible. HH Dalai Lama
In a world where you can be anything - be kind. Unknown
I actually avoid MMM for exactly this reason, Happystuff. I am really turned off by the typical posts there, which seem aggressive and entitled, 40-50 year old's with "megastaches" or whatever they call it, really make me feel rather hopeless. They also seem to be lucky, and not to have gone through a lot of what I went through, and I can't read them without feeling bad about my future, and poor.
Who the hell needs that? I am looking forward to trying the early retirement board that Terry recommends.
(I try to stay positive; can't do it on some boards or places.)
I agree with a lot of what you said, Tybee. It is a different type of personality on that board.
Another good early retirement blog is Jacob Lund Fisker's: http://earlyretirementextreme.com
There's no discussion board on it but a lot of food for thought.
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The "megastache" posts don't bother me so much as the general level of aggressiveness, humblebragging, and (dare I say it?) coarseness on that site. Despite the amount of good advice there, I just didn't cotton to it. This site and Bogleheads are much more accepting and genteel; lots of FIRE and frugal people present without the language and facepunches. Haven't yet looked at the ER site that was mentioned.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. - Booker T. Washington
Yes - it’s the lack of regard for other humans and the general bullying and making fun of others that annoys me. Very immature.
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