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Take his car. He needs a few discreet object lessons, IMHO. heh

It's possible, if you're diligent and save. When my wife and I were in our late 30's I also didn't have much in my 401k. (less than what you have, we had some things happen which made me take a payout which was stupid and heavily taxes/penalized). You'll have to buckle down into a recovery...

I have one of these loaded with water for "Cat behavior control"

I think a question I keep coming to in my head regarding the AI Bubble (which I definitely believe is a bubble). Is when it pops will it be just the traditional "Now these things price correct back to where they should be, and the hype train heads to another station", or will it only pop after...

I'm certainly not saying they shouldn't. Being a US company benefits them in many ways, and unlike some countries we won't arbitrarily nationalize them. I just find it one more step towards the "corporatocracy" dystopia model. At some point a large multinational will be big enough that it...

We are entering the stage where large corporations are being treated like vassal states that have to pay tribute to the empire....

Compared to @Mrs. Haus and I who own two cars grand total, both wholly paid off. One 2013, and one 2017. heh My idea of a extravagant expensive side project vehicle would be buying an older El Camino to restore/restomod.

Yeah, one whole driver in my "buy land and build a house away from Dallas" plan is escaping the insane property taxes in Dallas (even if you're homesteaded for the exemption)

Yeah, some of it, I think, has to do with letting lifestyle inflation creep in on you. You start making more money and there are things you associate with "well off" and you start doing those, and those cost more than the frugal means you'd been living with. Like when the guy who usually...

And it's not just "tech", you have to go into the top tech performers as there are a more than a couple of S&P tech stocks that when you take monetary devaluation into account are flat or negative for the last year.

My one surviving parent is living in the house I was raised in around 20 minutes from me. But this is already a consideration in some ways. My sister moved back to Texas to move in with her and take care of things at the house (I take care of maintaining the finances, money, mom is currently...

Well. Covid proved to a lot of employers that they could, in fact, have many of their jobs get done "from anywhere". Which now also means "done cheaper in Costa Rica or India". Then you add in that all the big companies for the last year and a half have been pushing people into training AI...

His take on it (my cardiologist) was essentially... "This would be a great heart rate if you were a regular runner and in great shape.... we both know how much you weigh..." So it was something to watch. Never had Afib, although oddly my watch also checks for signs of that too. Only time...

I have to watch things because my cardiologist is all kinds of cautious on me because my resting heart rate is around 52-55, and it dips to the low 40's when I sleep. It's why I wear a "smart watch". Been told if I ever see a number starting with a 3 we have to have a pacemaker talk.

Key note if taking a magnesium supplement, if you have a low resting heart rate be careful! They are a low tier beta blocker, which can cause your heart rate to drop.

From the "shit I have in a feed because it was involved in all my grandparents dying" file... https://ground.news/daily-briefing/new-hope-for-alzheimers-groundbreaking-harvard-study-finds-lithium-reverses-brain-aging-the-boston-globe

It's an invitation to a round of Rodeo... Grab her hair shove it up her ass when she reacts negatively say "Your sisters ass was tighter" See how many seconds you can keep riding. Unrelated :

I have to agree with @ToeMissile on this one. If your line of work is anything like mine the first stop when job shopping is your personal network and calling people to see who in your industry is hiring. This also usually helps you get the right in with the right people. Now a days any...

So we have folks calling other people "boo" and "sport". I wonder when we'll escalate to "friend" and "buddy"? Let me check a few my achievements while I have been lurking on this MMO LARP board for years now... Gutted to the studs and rebuilt two bathrooms in my house. Gutted and...

I think I explained my reasons for wanting to keep doing something I see as useful in retirement. I saw how decline hit my grandfather who raised me once he stopped having anything active to be doing. I know I'm like him, so I suspect I will need to find something to keep myself feeling...

How about this stat. Median 401k balance for Americans with age brackets... Ages 40–49: $154,212 Ages 50–59: $252,850 Ages 60+: $210,724 59% of adults in the US couldn't cover a $1,000 emergency without going into debt.

TBH, If I detach and let logical pragmatic Haus decide there's a very solid argument for East Oklahoma, or dare I even say it Arkansas. (I have co-workers in Arkansas who have made a few feigned attempts to luring me up there.)

I think it's more my ingrained upbringing, and the desire to poke fun at Oklahoma which is bred into every Texan....

That's a mighty low bar you're setting there sir... ;)

You know I'm right here and can see this, right?

Ours became the home of our "big ass F shaped desk" and our home office out of which I work. We still have a dining table in one end, and I admit we reconfigure it around the holidays to host Thanksgiving/Xmas at our house. I don't know of any in person meetings from the forums. Honestly, if...

This is one of the considerations in "project Peaches" which is to buy land away from Dallas and build on it. But I still have most of my family, and even more of the wife's family who are around DFW, so we're kinda trying not to move that far away. That and I don't know if I could deal with...

In my neighborhood in Dallas the lots are around 1/3rd acre. Houses originally built as 2400-2600 sq ft houses. Now every person who moves out the house gets snatched up, then tear it down and drop a 4000 sq ft 2 story McMansion on it. Although the last couple of those they have done have...

I did Cabinets To Go when we redid our kitchen around a decade ago. If you have a basic nail gun and moderate competency using it then assembly of them is pretty easy peasy. Once I got an idea of the scope of the project through the guy at the CtG store showed me how he had a contractor who...

I'm watching it play out in real time with my mother right now. 75, and never really planned/saved for any retirement. Only has her Social Security. Saved by the grace of : That my grandmother put the house we were all raised in into a trust so that she'd have a roof over her head She had...

I was the SFDC admin/deployment guy/everything person for a small company I worked at around 8 years ago. Found I could manage the SFDC stuff ok since I treated it as just an DB app with a very dynamic front end to work against. Learned a TON about how our business operated in helping move...

That is a dangerous spot for me. There's an old bit of wisdom I was given "Don't make the hobby you enjoy into a job, it ruins enjoying the hobby" and I'm working against that right now even since I am also looking at puttering in my hobby and trying to sell things in retirement.....

In the spreadsheet I mentioned I do exactly this. Since it's attached to my budget spreadsheet I have a very acute picture of my monthly expenses, which then rolls to yearly, and I have a "how long do you REALLY think you're gonna live" field which I'm optimistically setting at 90 right now...

I have a spreadsheet I'm using to generally coordinate all the things involving this and there's one column for "If Social Security still exists" and one for "Social Security blew the fuck up and you're on your own". My dream would be that social security still exists and pays out what it says...