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02-05-2014, 06:56 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: The Beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains
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... you took the high road in a meeting by simply ignoring the coworker who bit your head off in front of the whole room, then regretted later not biting right back and telling them in no uncertain terms in front of that meeting to just kiss your @$$. 
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02-05-2014, 06:59 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 11,401
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…..you have had your "take this job and shove it" letter written and dated for the past 3 years, just have to sign and send it.
…..you have a "days to ER" counter on your desktop.
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02-05-2014, 08:59 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: Bay Area
Posts: 2,745
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The other day, my doctor asked me what I do for exercise. I said I play golf 2 - 3 times a week. Immediately, he asks, are you retired? Yup, I think playing golf 2 - 3 times a week is a prelude to retirement.
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02-05-2014, 09:05 PM
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Administrator
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: N. Yorkshire
Posts: 34,122
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... You open your wallet and Abraham Lincoln blinks in the sunlight
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Retired in Jan, 2010 at 55, moved to England in May 2016
Enough private pension and SS income to cover all needs
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02-05-2014, 09:06 PM
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Administrator
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: N. Yorkshire
Posts: 34,122
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... you live in a community where the census taker simply rolls a coin down each street and then counts the people as they come out to investigate.
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Retired in Jan, 2010 at 55, moved to England in May 2016
Enough private pension and SS income to cover all needs
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02-06-2014, 12:13 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Sarasota, FL & Vermont
Posts: 36,340
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your first stop on vacation is to Walmart to by provisions for breakfast and lunches rather than dining out....
you check into the hotel and have two wheelie bags... and a cooler... to move to your room
Ooma is not a foreign word...
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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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02-06-2014, 06:58 AM
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Moderator
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Eastern WV Panhandle
Posts: 25,339
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...your car has at least one body panel a different color than the others.
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When I was a kid I wanted to be older. This is not what I expected.
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02-06-2014, 08:52 AM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Northern IL
Posts: 140
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..the features on your riding mower are more important than those on your car.
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I have the nature of a polymath and the memory of a Commodore 64
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02-06-2014, 11:31 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Moscow
Posts: 1,572
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...You still drive your first car.
...Bums wear newer clothing than you.
...The staff at Goodwill knows you by name.
...The words "firecalc," "dividends" and "Index Fund" get you excited.
...You call your savings "F.U. money."
...Bernstein means William, not Leonard.
...You know how to say Bogle.
...You get more excited about saving money than going to Disneyland.
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You can't enlighten the unconscious.
But you can hit'em upside the head a few times to make sure they are really out...
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02-06-2014, 11:32 AM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 17,774
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....you don't understand what a "starter" home is.
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“Would you like an adventure now, or would you like to have your tea first?” J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
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02-06-2014, 03:00 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Eastern WV Panhandle
Posts: 25,339
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...your lunch box is 20 years old and has saved you over five figures in cash after-tax money.
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When I was a kid I wanted to be older. This is not what I expected.
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02-06-2014, 04:37 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jul 2013
Posts: 1,046
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You wear the same underwear all week. By mid-week you turn it inside-out and then Sun you go commando while it's in the wash getting ready for next week 
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02-06-2014, 05:04 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Aug 2011
Posts: 3,602
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When your company freezes the traditional DB pension plan after 22 years, and you say, well I guess it's ER for me now!
-gauss
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02-06-2014, 05:07 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Aug 2011
Posts: 3,602
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If you have been running simulations of difference equations since the age of 25 on your company CAE software to model your net worth going forward and trying to figure out what you are missing. ("nobody can be FI in their 40's").
-gauss
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02-06-2014, 05:11 PM
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#36
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 11,401
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02-07-2014, 07:39 AM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Aug 2009
Posts: 61
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... you get through your work days by looking at your "when can I retire" spreadsheet.
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02-07-2014, 07:58 AM
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#38
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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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...your idea of a "new" car is a 5 year old Corolla with only 100,000 miles on it.
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02-07-2014, 10:47 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: Bay Area
Posts: 2,745
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 Quote:
Originally Posted by Chelhxi
... you get through your work days by looking at your "when can I retire" spreadsheet.
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That, too.
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02-07-2014, 10:56 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Gosport, IN
Posts: 1,218
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Chelhxi
... you get through your work days by looking at your "when can I retire" spreadsheet.
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I have been doing that for the last year and I love my job! Class of 2016 
saving a dollar is more important than spending a dollar! or earning a dollar...
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