Recent content by Jaded salami

This is the best advice I can give. Listen to your wife, and go now. You will probably regret the loss of two years of adventure more than the money almost for certain.

I'm a CPA who has lived in various places in the pacific NW, and have worked with many, many lumber mills and have spent some time in Longview. Retired a few years ago, live now in Shelton (about an hour across the sound from Seattle). A few observations about Longview. 1. It is not liberal...

I was planning to write something profound, but other than retiring 3.5 years ago at age 52, scrabbler1's plan exactly mirrors my own. I also second everyone who says get a handle on your actual expenses, I had tracked expenses in detail for about 5 years before I was confident I had a good...

Back when I was younger and less experienced, I traded stocks, read all the books, including the boring ones. My boss, who sat in his office trading stocks all day, heard I had an interest, and asked me for a stock tip. I warned him I didn't give advice, but he insisted. So I said...

Manchester by the Sea - well acted, well written, but wish I had those two hours of my life back, however. Loved rewatching The Sixth Sense.

8.17% in a Franklin Templeton Fund-Mutual Shares when I started investing in it 32 years ago. I agree with Texas Proud #12

I am three years into ER, had an allocation of 65/10/25 equity/bonds/cash and have largely stuck with it since around 8 years ago, ER'd at 52

a 40 lb pound bag of dehydrated carrots for my dogs. Great for keeping their weight under control.

This has been exactly my experience as well.

talk with your SO, finding out now whether you are compatible money strategy-wise will be helpful. control your diabetes, I developed type 2 around five years ago at age 50, early retirement around 3 years ago, lost some weight and got my numbers down significantly. Obamacare helped more than...

+1. Over the history of our country, isolationism has been economically disasterous. Hoover was a smart guy but he was very wrong about the global economy back then.

For the last two weeks, I began telling random off-color jokes in mixed company durng work hours. I tried to make sure the HR director (who was in the office next to mine) was always within earshot. I'm sure this was the longest two weeks for her. Because I was generally a very well-liked...

I have 10% invested in emerging int'l markets and another 20% in developed int'l markets. As big hitter said, at least so far, this year has been very good for int'l.

I live in a state where I can qualify for Medicaid because of my extremely low taxable income. I'm sure this isn't what Obamacare intended but I don't feel guilty about taking advantage of it, at all. Health care in this country has been too expensive for what we get out of it.

I was a CFO for a lumber company before I retired. I bought 20 copies of this book (out of my own pocket) for our management team. Several people had since commented to me that this was the best thing I had ever done for the company. I also recommend A Random Walk Down Wall Street, it...