Recent content by MDJO

I've been retired for almost two years. It's about what I expected - the people I really cared about, I've stayed in touch. The others only stay in touch when they need something. I'm not fond of calling the workplace a "family" - you don't usually cut people out of your family. "Team" is...

Timing of retirement makes a difference in some Megacorps. Make sure you maximize payments from Megacorp to your retirement plans. In my Megacorp, if you worked 1000 hours in a year, you received payment to your plan. If you worked less, you got nothing. I left just after I had accumulated...

I will share most anything except the name of my probation officer.

With a few months of buyout payments left from megacorp, I have finally crossed a milestone I set about 33 years ago - 2M in liquid net worth. House paid for, cars paid for, part time consulting gig is going well, DW is going back to work part time. Golf game getting better. Friends say that...

Awesome!

Allergies here as well. Artificial for the past 20 years or so.:(

Welcome aboard. I exited in a similar fashion turning 60 this month. Enjoy everything!:dance:

Yes there are still people having large families. Once had a staff member I had just hired whose stated objective (not to me) was to have 6 children quickly, and she serious about it. Do some religions encourage large families?

Tough situation. I have watched both of our kids date people that I thought were just awful. Thankfully they never married any of them. Just about bit entirely through my lip to keep my mouth shut. Only time I said anything was when I found out one of the boyfriends had a criminal...

About 800/mo for just food. Feeding four adult appetites on that amount

16600 per year. Monthly costs as follows. 2000 sqft, $300,000 home in midwest Natural gas53Water and Sewer56Electric100Home maintenance325Insurance - Auto and Home100Phone/Cable/Cell/Internet200Property taxes/Rent550

Age 59 80% equities, 20% fixed & cash

I hope everything comes out alright.

Probably about an hour per day reading and researching new ideas. But I enjoy doing this, did it for years before I retired, and continue to do so. Check in with the indexes several times a day on my smartphone.

Excellent point, NW - the breakers are the problem. And I believe you are correct that no one makes a breaker to replace all of the FPE breakers, enabling the re-use of the panel. That said, I believe most of the cost of the equipment is in the breakers, so there might not be much in the way...