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Hi! 29yo DINKS from Tampa Bay
04-30-2011, 04:13 PM
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Confused about dryer sheets
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Tampa Bay
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Hi! 29yo DINKS from Tampa Bay
Hello,
I have been on this board for several months just looking around and reading. This is a great forum and I finally registered so I can join the conversations. Also, I love love love the iPhone app!
I will be 29 in a few weeks, I'm a pharmacist and have no kids yet but plan to. My husband is a 29 year old attorney. We live in Tampa Bay w/ my father. That always sounds weird so let me be specific; we own a house that my father also lives in.
I started my financial journey when I realized how much my then soon-to-be-husband was carrying in student loans. It was a very hard number for me to wrap my head around. I knew a lot of sacrifice would need to be made to get control over our financial lives. My husband isn't always on board w/ the sacrifices but we manage to have some fun too. I actually have some questions about our next steps in terms of student loan repayment vs investing vs mortgage payment but I plan to put that in a more appropriate place.
Anyhow, that's the short version for now. I look forward to participating here.
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04-30-2011, 05:44 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 14,328
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Welcome. 
Twenty nine is young and you are on a good path, with plenty of time for investing and having fun.
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05-02-2011, 06:27 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Cavalier
Posts: 2,317
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Welcome
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"Don't take life so serious, son. It ain't nohow permanent." Pogo Possum (Walt Kelly)
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05-02-2011, 06:58 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: USA
Posts: 1,050
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Welcome Dinks
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05-02-2011, 08:46 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: Jul 2010
Posts: 7,940
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Welcome!! If you are dealing with debt issues, you may want to check out Dave Ramsey if you haven't done that already. He has excellent tools and education to assist in getting and staying out of debt and then building investments to support ER. All the best!!!
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"One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute." William Feather
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ER'd Oct. 2010 at 53. Life is good.
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05-06-2011, 10:55 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Oct 2004
Posts: 1,719
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Law school debt can be crushing in light of the current state of the legal employment market.
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He had one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it . . . It faced, or seemed to face, the whole external world for an instant and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. -- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
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05-06-2011, 12:32 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Naples
Posts: 2,179
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Welcome to the forum. I'm also in the Tampa Bay region but probably won't be much help to you on the investment side of things. We're strictly CD types. Retired in 1988 and haven't had a mortgage since 1998. I do know that you have jumped aboard a site with very savy people with very diverse backgrounds who will steer you right.
Again, welcome to the forum.
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05-12-2011, 07:27 PM
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Gone but not forgotten
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Sarasota,fl.
Posts: 11,447
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Welcome ! I am just below Tampa in the Sarasota area .
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05-12-2011, 08:04 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Orlando, Fl
Posts: 950
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And I'm just northeast in Orlando....welcome!
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05-13-2011, 03:18 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: midwestern city
Posts: 4,061
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Welcome.
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Very conservative with investments. Not ER'd yet, 48 years old. Please do not take anything I write or imply as legal, financial or medical advice directed to you. Contact your own financial advisor, healthcare provider, or attorney for financial, medical and legal advice.
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