Larro Darro
Recycles dryer sheets
My mother was the only one I talked money with when I was younger. We never really talked about ER, but about FI. I knew about compounding when I was in Jr High. But after the Navy, I semi-retired at age 22 for a few years. So when I met my DW at 28, I had no savings. But I was tired of the broke life, so we have had our noses to the grindstone ever since.
All my coworkers are broke, and plan to work until they die. I make the least of any of them, and we are nearly FI. The part time fellow does like to talk money, but it is more the woe is me kind of thing. {2 ex-wives and 1 refi} He makes $60K at his real job, which is a lot for the sticks here, yet he is paycheck to paycheck. They know we are savers, but not how much.
I don't talk numbers with anyone, but since my wife is an elected official, people can find out what her half of everything is worth. Most don't think to do it. {Thank the Lord.} Also thank the Lord she will not be running again. We have to tell little white lies of omission all the time. When our Prius was five years old, someone said they knew we were glad to have an end to the car payments. Instead of saying we had paid cash, we just said, yea, it's going to be nice.
The one person I talk to now about saving and investing is a friend who owns a pawn shop. He worked in a Swiss Investment Bank before coming here. His FIL, along with one of his buddies, owned the pawn shop. It was more of a hobby to them than a real business. My Swiss friend had soon bought out both partners, and turned it around. Now he makes so much money off check loans he is FI and talks about RE. He is training his son to take over the business, and he does stay home a day every now and then. I enjoy talking with him, but since I have a bad gun collecting habit, going into pawn shops gets me off my LBYM goals.
All my coworkers are broke, and plan to work until they die. I make the least of any of them, and we are nearly FI. The part time fellow does like to talk money, but it is more the woe is me kind of thing. {2 ex-wives and 1 refi} He makes $60K at his real job, which is a lot for the sticks here, yet he is paycheck to paycheck. They know we are savers, but not how much.
I don't talk numbers with anyone, but since my wife is an elected official, people can find out what her half of everything is worth. Most don't think to do it. {Thank the Lord.} Also thank the Lord she will not be running again. We have to tell little white lies of omission all the time. When our Prius was five years old, someone said they knew we were glad to have an end to the car payments. Instead of saying we had paid cash, we just said, yea, it's going to be nice.
The one person I talk to now about saving and investing is a friend who owns a pawn shop. He worked in a Swiss Investment Bank before coming here. His FIL, along with one of his buddies, owned the pawn shop. It was more of a hobby to them than a real business. My Swiss friend had soon bought out both partners, and turned it around. Now he makes so much money off check loans he is FI and talks about RE. He is training his son to take over the business, and he does stay home a day every now and then. I enjoy talking with him, but since I have a bad gun collecting habit, going into pawn shops gets me off my LBYM goals.
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