I hate this berkeleying truck. If it was mine id burn it to the berkeleying ground.
I hate this berkeleying truck. If it was mine id burn it to the berkeleying ground.
In reply to Dusterbd13 :
If it helps you move to action I can lowball you. What's your lowest price? I'll offer you 1/5th of that. 
EastCoastMojo said:In reply to Dusterbd13 :
If it helps you move to action I can lowball you. What's your lowest price? I'll offer you 1/5th of that.
That's too low. I'll offer him 1/6. Six is bigger than five. Better offer.
You do realize the satisfaction of smashing the ever loving E36 M3 out of something you despise has no price.
I have been on the search for small fibreglass camping trailer like the Scamp. I have found several on CL near me. They are either grossly overpriced or the sellers never get in touch.
Clicked on this link provided by dculberson yesterday. Got very little work done...
Why does every TV ad or sitcom feel the need to portray the husband as a raging moron? There are stupid women out there too.
NickD said:Why does every TV ad or sitcom feel the need to portray the husband as a raging moron? There are stupid women out there too.
Because that would be sexist.
Duke said:NickD said:Why does every TV ad or sitcom feel the need to portray the husband as a raging moron? There are stupid women out there too.
Because that would be sexist.
Oh right, silly me, I forgot
My driver's door decided it didn't want to be a door anymore. At least there's no snow on the ground currently.
WilD said:Clicked on this link provided by dculberson yesterday. Got very little work done...
I AM THE DEVIL.
dculberson said:WilD said:Clicked on this link provided by dculberson yesterday. Got very little work done...
I AM THE DEVIL.
nope.. not looking
It's my birthday I am old.
berkeley
Might be a first world problem thread post, but in any case: My wife and I have a net worth of roughly 1 year of our combined income. Albeit living in a HCOL area, but individually, we are each probably top 15% of earners country wide; likely top 10% of household income. Other than our mortgage, our only debt is a $4k car loan at 2% and about $15k left on my wife's student loan for her masters. We have 3 cars, but they add up to a total of $13,500 in total purchase price.
The rant part of this: We are on a razor thin budget. I have to work a second job. I just had to stop all retirement contributions, and won't be able to start again until February thanks to an emergency vet bill. We have a pile of things that need to be done around the house that we can't afford--things like a chimney rebuild, or a new deck. Why is life so goddamn expensive? Why do we have no money? We don't have cable. Our newest car is 11 years old. And we don't even have any significant health issues. Our hobbies are all either free, cheap, or infrequent. Our vacations almost always involve a lot of parental aid (use family vacation homes, dad insists on buying a case of beer for me while up there, paying for gas in his boat, etc.). Why do we have no money?
Side note: Dear mom and dad, you've officially reached the age where you have only adult children and no grandchildren. We don't have room in our house for any more stuff, because we've already taken all of your hand me down furniture. If you want to give us something, give us either a gift card to go out to eat, or a Costco gift card to pay for dog food, or just cash. I know you like to be very thoughtful with your gifts, but you don't have to give us anything. We have everything and anything we need.
At least they don't give us junk.
In reply to mtn :
Hear hear!
We don't have any net worth to speak of, but otherwise similar, though we probably make half of what you do because single income. Our best guess is kids.
wearymicrobe said:Duke said:I'm assuming he means it is way more than 10% as much fun.
Correct.
It is 80% of the total fun maybe less cool ownership perks but at the end of the day its 90K cheaper and well you can drive it the way it was built for.
That's what I figured, and I agree 100%.
tuna55 said:In reply to mtn :
Hear hear!
We don't have any net worth to speak of, but otherwise similar, though we probably make half of what you do because single income. Our best guess is kids.
Best guess? If you had kids AND money, now that would be a mystery! 
No mysteries by me, I'm acutely aware of where every dollar goes. But I'll agree with asking why life is so goddamn expensive. It makes mid-level grinding in an MMORPG look good.
tuna55 said:In reply to mtn :
Hear hear!
We don't have any net worth to speak of, but otherwise similar, though we probably make half of what you do because single income. Our best guess is kids.
You're probably closer to our total income than you think. Depends on what figures you use for top x%. I remember thinking in college that $xyz,000 was a ton of money. I remember thinking that nobody could possibly need more than $150k a year. Well, we're still probably 10-15 years from that figure, but even at that figure we're not moving into a bigger house. We just had a finance discussion and decided to table discussion of having kids for another 5 months, when we can do this analysis again and come to the same conclusion.
A lot of this is because we live in an expensive area, but we live in the cheapest house on the block. We're afraid to put money into it because the next person to buy it will tear it down. Another rant for another day.
In reply to mtn :
Now throw in getting divorced at 40 with kids so you can reboot your life while making out a mortgage payment sized check to the ex every month while you rebuy all the E36 M3 you lost. It's fun.
KyAllroad (Jeremy) said:In reply to mtn :
Now throw in getting divorced at 40 with kids so you can reboot your life while making out a mortgage payment sized check to the ex every month while you rebuy all the E36 M3 you lost. It's fun.
If my wife died or we got divorced or whatever, I'd probably sell everything that I ended up with and start over as a true minimalist by choice. Estate sale followed by dumpster.
mtn said:KyAllroad (Jeremy) said:In reply to mtn :
Now throw in getting divorced at 40 with kids so you can reboot your life while making out a mortgage payment sized check to the ex every month while you rebuy all the E36 M3 you lost. It's fun.
If my wife died or we got divorced or whatever, I'd probably sell everything that I ended up with and start over as a true minimalist by choice. Estate sale followed by dumpster.
I don't even really own anything. If you took everything I physically had and sold it, every non-retirement account that I can't access anyway and cashed it out, you might have like $50K including home equity.
Yeah we might be closer then. We hit six figures less than a year ago, but it's crazy how tight we are.
Gameboy, I didn't mean to say that I didn't know where my money was going, I was saying I don't know what someone has to do to be comfortable financially.
These are probably classic examples of expectations rising with income. I know mine have since I can remember being very excitted when my entire houshold income initially reached what is barely 70% of what I individually make now (which I feel is completely insufficient). Yes, these could probably go in the first world problems thread, but are also relatively minor rants as well.
WilD said:These are probably classic examples of expectations rising with income. I know mine have since I can remember being very excitted when my entire houshold income initially reached what is barely 70% of what I individually make now (which I feel is completely insufficient). Yes, these could probably go in the first world problems thread, but are also relatively minor rants as well.
Did you account for inflation?
In reply to GameboyRMH:
I did not, which does eat away a minor rantworthy amount of that gain.
This is one of the reasons im happy i live in a cheap area, im not loaded by any means and with 2 kids more money would alwsys be great. My wifes medical issues even after insurance deplete most everything after the basics though. I figured by my age id be living more comfortably with a larger savings, certainly didnt plan for twins!
Todays minor rant is my passenger inner door handle broke this morning when my kids were getting out.
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