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05-22-2018, 09:54 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Apr 2010
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Never mind the 80's.
We bought a Samsung 40 inch flat screen in circa 2005 to replace our 25" tube model.
Nine months ago we bought a vastly improved 65" thin screen Samsung for quite a bit less money. Today, the same TV is a few hundred dollars less than it was nine months ago. And a $75 blue ray cd player to go with it. Cannot remember what I paid for one ten years ago, without blu ray of course.
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05-22-2018, 10:05 AM
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#562
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: Syracuse
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Originally Posted by JP.mpls
I'm surprised that the comments were very favorable. I actually feel good about doing this. I was going to post a few weeks back to get suggestions from this forum on how to accomplish this in a tasteful manner.
I've been thinking about why I want to keep this whole process private. It comes down to this:
- I don't want my father and stepmother feeling bad about it, like they took a handout. It was my idea, not theirs, and I derived great personal pleasure from helping them. I told them several times that it would make me happy.
- My two sisters are the opposite of me financially. Money runs through their fingers like water. That being said, I love my sisters and I don't want them feeling bad, because they are unable to help our father and stepmother in this manner. (They both live nearby them, and do many nice things for them. )
Thanks again for some positive feedback.
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I asked Mom not to tell anyone. That lasted about 3 hours. She was quite proud and happy I got her the car.
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05-22-2018, 11:59 AM
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#563
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Sarasota, FL & Vermont
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Originally Posted by W2R
.... That will never do! So, I went over to Amazon and spent $96.47 on new lingerie. Well, $11+ of that was paid from Amazon Prime Visa rewards, but still I spent $84.88.
Blow that Dough! I need to keep working at this.
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Ok, I'll bite. Color me skeptical until we see the pictures of W2R in this new lingerie! [emoji1]
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If something cannot endure laughter.... it cannot endure.
Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.
Slow and steady wins the race.
Retired Jan 2012 at age 56
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05-22-2018, 01:06 PM
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#564
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: New Orleans
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Originally Posted by pb4uski
Ok, I'll bite. Color me skeptical until we see the pictures of W2R in this new lingerie! [emoji1]
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Not on your life!  Not gonna happen. 
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Already we are boldly launched upon the deep; but soon we shall be lost in its unshored, harbourless immensities. - - H. Melville, 1851.
Happily retired since 2009, at age 61. Best years of my life by far!
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05-22-2018, 01:46 PM
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#565
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Sarasota, FL & Vermont
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Darn. I figured you'd search high and wide on the internet to find some hot model in the lingerie that you ordered and post that picture.
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If something cannot endure laughter.... it cannot endure.
Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.
Slow and steady wins the race.
Retired Jan 2012 at age 56
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05-24-2018, 03:32 PM
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#566
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: May 2015
Location: Henderson
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Purchased tickets to Game 2 of the Stanley Cup final. Go Knights!
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05-25-2018, 06:39 AM
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#567
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: No fixed abode
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Go Caps!
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DW and I - FIREd at 50 (7/06), living off assets
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06-02-2018, 05:14 PM
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#568
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Mar 2016
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Ordered up my first new car!
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06-02-2018, 05:23 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Texas: No Country for Old Men
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Mitsubishi or Maserati?
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Numbers is hard
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06-02-2018, 05:36 PM
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#570
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Mar 2016
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My frugality took over and I didn't get that Lincoln I was talking about.
I ordered up a 2019 Chevy Impala with the tricoat pearl, sunroof, premier convenience and confidence.
Otherwise known as loaded - 
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06-02-2018, 06:05 PM
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#571
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jul 2008
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What? Robbie pulled in his horns!
What happens next? He's going to eat rib eye instead of Wagyu? Drinking whiskey instead of XO Cognac?
It's all down hill from here.
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"Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities Can Make You Commit Atrocities" - Voltaire (1694-1778)
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06-02-2018, 06:11 PM
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#572
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Nah, less car so more Wagyu -
But I also ordered up a fridge and an induction range for 33 hundred!
The car was a mere 1 grand deposit.
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06-02-2018, 06:17 PM
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#573
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jul 2008
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So, you decided to go for new appliances in the kitchen. All right!
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"Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man" -- Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)
"Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities Can Make You Commit Atrocities" - Voltaire (1694-1778)
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06-02-2018, 06:32 PM
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#574
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Mar 2016
Posts: 8,968
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Everything but the dishwasher which is only 2 years old.
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06-02-2018, 07:03 PM
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#575
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jan 2018
Location: Tampa
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574 posts and counting dedicated to spending concepts. Impressive.....keep it going.
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TGIM
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06-02-2018, 07:31 PM
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#576
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: New Orleans
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Congratulations on the new car, Robbie! Sounds beautiful.
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Happily retired since 2009, at age 61. Best years of my life by far!
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06-02-2018, 08:03 PM
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#577
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Thanks!
Yup, my first new car I ever bought. Pops used to buy new cars when I was a kid. I remember long meetings at the dealer and he would go down the checklist and they would build to order. Pops was very frugal, but he liked his new cars.
I'm looking forward to the paint, that cost another grand -
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06-03-2018, 05:50 AM
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#578
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Sep 2012
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I've got notoriously difficult to fit feet (5E width).
Just blew $280 on two pair of New Balance, one walker, one runner.
I LBYM and go cheap on a lot of things. Shoes are not one of them. Then again, it has been 3 years.
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06-03-2018, 08:04 AM
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#579
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: May 2014
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Originally Posted by JoeWras
I've got notoriously difficult to fit feet (5E width).
Just blew $280 on two pair of New Balance, one walker, one runner.
I LBYM and go cheap on a lot of things. Shoes are not one of them. Then again, it has been 3 years.
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I agree on the shoes. I found a really good brand of dress shoes made in Italy when I was working (Thierry Rabotin) and bought a couple of pair every year till I retired, buying from the Sale section of the store's Web site once I knew what size to get. They ran around $300/pair but there's no comparison with the made-in-China crap sold everywhere else. Comfortable, long-lasting and classic designs (if you pass up some of the more bizarre styles they also offer). They're also sufficiently well-made that they can be repaired instead of being thrown out and replaced. I like my feet. I take good care of them.
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06-03-2018, 09:25 AM
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#580
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: West of the Mississippi
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Originally Posted by athena53
I agree on the shoes. I found a really good brand of dress shoes made in Italy when I was working (Thierry Rabotin) and bought a couple of pair every year till I retired, buying from the Sale section of the store's Web site once I knew what size to get. .
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+1 on buying good shoes.
I bought some Joseph Siebel sandals once, expensive to buy, but they lasted me 10 years. Thus they were really pretty cheap. OTOH, I bought some cheap sandals two years ago and on my last trip overseas the straps became disconnected from the shoe bed on the first day. Very expensive sandals.
Thierry Rabotin only makes women's shoes from what I can see. To bad.
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