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03-05-2020, 08:50 PM
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#161
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Jun 2017
Location: Punta del Este
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Congrats, excellent example of Dough Blowing.. drive safe!
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03-06-2020, 02:49 AM
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#162
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gone traveling
Join Date: Dec 2015
Location: Berkeley, Denver, CO, USA
Posts: 1,406
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My wife just bought this Bottega Veneta bag.
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03-06-2020, 02:52 AM
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#163
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jan 2018
Location: Tampa
Posts: 11,298
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ok that is blowing some dough.
$2300?
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03-06-2020, 04:44 AM
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#164
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Dec 2015
Location: Michigan
Posts: 5,003
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We are currently up to about $9K on a project to replace our old white painted pine stairs with stained oak treads and cherry posts and rail. When we first kicked it off, we thought it would come in around $5-6K. The carpenter is a perfectionist and does amazing work that we love. There is $250 there for some drywall repair that bleeds into the living room from the stairway, so that room will need painted plus the stain for the stairs, rails, and adjacent replaced oak closet doors. The carpenter has a painter that he uses (he will only accept very good subs) and thought that staining for the stairs would be $800. That figure is in the $9K.
The painter just came in with his estimate - much masking due to the two woods, two stain coats on all the wood, 3 coats of clear, repair all issues on the stairway and living room walls and ceiling, primer, two coats of paint. $3300. Even with the expanded job we were expecting about half of that. We would be up to $11.4K total.
We have complications in that we are about to go travelling for a while, and the work could be done while we are gone to great convenience. We would have to wait until we return to find someone else, don't know how much we might save or what shortcuts would happen in quality for a lower price, and might be in the house for expended periods with no access to the master bedroom or bathrooms upstairs.
We are stunned at having to pay so much more, but know the result will be very fine and do not see a reasonable alternative. We can afford it, but are disillusioned about how these things always snowball in cost.
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The best part is that it's free (which blows zero dough)
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03-06-2020, 05:33 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Oct 2016
Location: The Shire
Posts: 1,504
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The best part is that it's free (which blows zero dough)
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Originally Posted by Retired Expat
I think we need to have a discussion on the meaning of “Blow that dough” and some criteria or parameters. I personally don’t feel $18 or a tank of gas for a motorcycle qualifies.
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I have interpreted those more modest dough-blowing posts as wry humor not to be taken seriously. Such wiseguy comments are my 2nd favorite aspect of this forum.
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Paying it forward is the best investment.
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03-06-2020, 05:56 AM
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#166
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 315
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This is a blow that dough kind of year - finishing up window replacement on the west side of the house - $7K, new standing seam roof w/2 new Velux skylights - $17K, hiking trip in Utah with two grown sons - not complete yet, trip to see aging father in FL, funeral in Rochester - $1K. And hopefully we stay healthy with all this airport and flight business going on!
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"Retirement isn’t really a switch you flip at a certain age anymore," the Schwab report states. "It’s a financial state that allows for the flexibility to make work optional."
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03-06-2020, 07:11 PM
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#167
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Portland
Posts: 584
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Signed up Amazon Music HD, bought Sennheiser HD6xx headphone, Schiit Modi3 DAC and Magni 3+ headphone amp
Find myself listen to music for hours - I am an audiophile now :-)
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03-06-2020, 07:40 PM
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#168
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Dec 2016
Location: DC area
Posts: 2,495
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I finally outfitted my poker room. Bought a table, better-then-average folding chairs, a custom poker room sign, and "upper middle class" Milano poker chips. https://www.pokerchipmania.com/clays...-chips/milano/
Buying the chips was fun. I bought samples of 4 different chips, and in the end bought 1000 Milanos and a second set of 650 Nexgen Pros that are out of production and essentially on clearance. I'll keep the Nexgens at our summer house and give my old dice chip set to DS#1. If anyone is buying poker chips, Hobbyphilic on youtube has a great series of reviews.
All in all, it cost about half my 2019 low-stakes poker winnings. Mrs. USG said "we're supposed to be downsizing!" First game here is next Friday.
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Consulting to stay engaged
"All models are wrong, some are useful." - George Box
“There is always a well-known solution to every human problem: neat, plausible, and wrong.” - H.L. Mencken
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03-06-2020, 07:51 PM
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#169
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 35,712
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I don't need to blow any dough. The market has done a good job for me.
I want to share this Web page for people to visualize the money that has been blown off their account. 
https://www.caranddriver.com/ferrari
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"Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities Can Make You Commit Atrocities" - Voltaire (1694-1778)
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03-06-2020, 07:57 PM
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#170
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Mar 2016
Posts: 8,968
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Go for it Dr Roy! Sounds great! Yeah, do it when you are gone and it'll be magic when you return. Only twice as much as the first estimate and really fine work and you really wouldn't want to have this magnificent staircase next to walls with dings in them eh?
Haha, Blow That Dough!
I just got my statement and I lost over a quarter mill last month. In Ferrari terms a Tributo. Big deal. It'll be back!
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03-07-2020, 03:44 AM
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#171
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: Rural Alabama
Posts: 1,359
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Projected retirement--2020 at age 48 (done!)
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03-07-2020, 08:07 AM
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#172
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Boise
Posts: 431
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Special at our golf pro shop - Two SM8 Vokey wedges, fitting, short game lesson, two dozen Pro V1's.
Amusing to not be bothered by the 200K drop last week. This too will pass.
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03-08-2020, 04:53 PM
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#173
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: Syracuse
Posts: 3,502
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Missing a decimal?
I will never understand the price of luxury goods..... Bags in particular. Ah well C'est La Vie!
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Originally Posted by Retired Expat
Congrats, excellent example of Dough Blowing.. drive safe!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dtail
ok that is blowing some dough.
$2300?
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“No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing"
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03-14-2020, 06:21 PM
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#174
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Northern IL
Posts: 26,891
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Hey! Where'd everybody go! 
A little gallows humor is OK, right?
-ERD50
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03-14-2020, 06:40 PM
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#175
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Laurel, MD
Posts: 8,327
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I got my high end massage chair that I’ve wanted for years. DW caved in and bought it for me at Xmas. The whole extended family loves it and I deserve a commission for 2 units ordered by relatives. That’s good because this thing is getting used at least 2-3 times everyday so it’ll probably wear out in a few years and I’ll get another one. I was scolded by members here a few years back for considering such a frivolous expense! That was before RobbieB invented the concept of BTD.
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03-14-2020, 11:06 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: The 850
Posts: 980
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Who cares about a declining market? Decided I would not run out of my favorite knives and always be able to keep them ridiculously sharp. Dropped over $1,000 on discontinued pocket knives on eBay and paid up for a new sharpening system. Here's the sharpening system for those interested in a higher level of "sharp" https://www.worksharptools.com/produ...ool-sharpener/.
Plus I got married, and the beach wedding wasn't cheap 
All worth it, thanks Robbie for showing the way!
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Stay at home slacker dad 2015-August 2024. With the last kid gone, now actually retired
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03-15-2020, 06:36 AM
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#177
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Jan 2014
Posts: 414
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Well, we did a trip through Florida, spending time with friends and family. Normally we are somewhat semi-frugal about vacations but this time we just didn't worry about prices and had a good time. Feeling flush, a niece was between jobs so we helped out and paid their real estate taxes for 2019. (Yes, it's a one time thing) Then, last week we were talking about future travels close to home so we bought a new van to make road trips easier. This is a biggie for us, since we keep vehicles a long time. (10 years old is just getting broken in.) Glad I had pulled the $$ out for the van before the corona-market did a dive!
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03-15-2020, 05:09 PM
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#178
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 1,251
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Fun-car Upgrade
Decided to upgrade from the Miata to something a bit more comfortable (and big enough for golf clubs!)
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"Don't you draw the queen of diamonds, boy, she'll beat you if she's able.
You know the queen of hearts is always your best bet" -- The Eagles, Desperado
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03-15-2020, 05:33 PM
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#179
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Conroe, Texas
Posts: 18,731
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Quote:
Originally Posted by misanman
Decided to upgrade from the Miata to something a bit more comfortable (and big enough for golf clubs!)
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Nice!! 
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03-15-2020, 07:37 PM
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#180
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: Rural Alabama
Posts: 1,359
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Quote:
Originally Posted by misanman
Decided to upgrade from the Miata to something a bit more comfortable (and big enough for golf clubs!)
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Am in the market for a frivolous car myself. Was thinking about a Miata... What kind is your new ride? It's good to consider all the possibilities...
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