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One thing that shows very plainly is that the poster who calls himself a lazygoodfornothingbum is very, very far from that being any sort of an accurate description. The love and care for his mother that shines through in his posts completely negates such a description. Perhaps a name...

hehehehehe.....started off as friends.....he was back in his home town, being pursued by his mother's friends for their daughters. I was eight years older, divorced, determined never to have my heart vulnerable enough to be broken again. we hung out for awhile, just enjoyed each other's...

You only need to observe one family member or friend with shingles to make you willing to pay for the vaccine. I got mine at the Public Health department, paid $196 for it (Medicare doesn't cover it, go figure, considering what Medicare is probably having to shell out for cases of...

Quote: Originally Posted by Nanita8140 I plan to retire overseas to my native country(Argentina), Just to be a bit nickpicky... But isn't Argentina south of here and 'connected' by land??? That would then not be 'overseas'.... ;D ;D ;D...

I find myself quite fascinated by the tremendous amount of vitriol coming from Republicans and the Clinton campaign on the comments of the pastor, now retired, from Obama's church. Methinks they are protesting WAY too much......and are throwing every rock they can hurl in the way of this man...

Actually this was first mentioned in December on the Drudge Report, but I kind of dismissed it then as just conservative dislike of John McCain. But the NY Times, whatever you think of its' liberal editorial page, doesn't usually go in for these personal type stories, and when it does, there is...

We moved my mother from her home to an independent living apartment in a retirement center in 2000, and she lived there quite happily and in apparent good health right up to the moment when she walked into her bathroom at age 91 one morning and had a massive stroke or coronary and fell onto the...

Boy, I don't know....it's hard for me to fathom someone thinking that a 3,000 sq. ft. home is too small....only in America, I guess. we live in a motorhome and we have had ten people in here for potlucks without anyone having to sit on the floor, and our motorhome is less than three HUNDRED...

We have always done pretty much all of the things mentioned, and we still do them for the most part. It doesn't surprise me that people on this board engage in these sorts of thrifty habits. Lots more people become millionaires on thrifty habits than on large incomes. People who are focused...

I'm posting again, because it wouldn't let me edit to add this. It may come as a surprise to you HA, (and others), but there are many of us, even those of us with seven figure portfolios, who do not fear paying taxes, want to support our societies, our schools, our libraries and yes, health...

I'm just amazed at how many have digested soundbites about Barack Obama just being "fluffy talk". I wonder how many have actually gone to his website, Welcome to Obama for America and downloaded and READ the 64 page plan of his position on issues and how he intends to achieve those goals...

I'm actually excited....we vote in Texas, and usually we feel our votes are wasted....in the primaries everything is decided before we get a chance to vote, and in the general elections, the Republican majority makes sure that our moderately liberal choices never get elected. But this year...

I think it should be noted that when Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton ran for President, large majorities of black people did not vote for them. But, when a candidate comes along of the quality of Barack Obama, AND he is also black, if you were black, what would you do? Even though you might...

We go across the border in the Yuma AZ area, to Los Algodones, which pretty much exists to service the gringo population that streams across the border for dentists, doctors, pharmacies and opticians. Best defense against malpractice is the same as it is in this country, research your...

I did inherit, and without a second thought, dumped that money into our joint brokerage account. We've been together for more than thirty years, have shared everything from day one and always will. It's hard for me to even fathom doing it differently. LooseChickens

Down a bit in January, but we spent two months in Europe last fall, plus we bought a new Prius in December, paid the estimated tax on capital gains taken last year, and still aren't below our 2007 gains, so I feel o.k. When the portfolio drops below what it was a year ago, then I'll consider...

We've gone to a dentist over the border in Mexico for more than a dozen years, and when we lived in Mexico before that as well. Excellent dentists, inexpensive prices and very good work. If you're interested in implants, Dr. Rubio specializes in them. He no longer does the other general...

Well, we live in a motorhome, and one would think that there wouldn't be much room to stock up food........but, last year when we decided to go to Europe for several months, we were going to leave our motorhome at a friend's house in Scottsdale, AZ. In early September it is still really hot...

Well, we have a 2008 Prius, and we're ecstatically happy with it. The batteries are covered under the ten year warranty. (Lots of inaccurate information about the batteries out there on the internet). We would have been happy to buy used, but when the only one we could find in the color and...

Well, I think of myself as being really frugal, but there are certainly things we don't scrimp on. I don't mind getting most of my clothes from thrift stores because I prefer soft, casual, comfortable clothes, and find an abundance second hand, but here are the things we don't really scrimp...

It's so interesting to see how folks spend money and what each thinks of as necessitites and luxuries. We live on less than $30,000 most years, which is far less than our withdrawal rate would allow, but we do have some years like this year when we went to Europe for two months and also just...

If we were able to see the billions of bacteria living on one square inch of our forearm, we'd probably crawl into bed and hide. How many more ways will they discover to try to scare people to death. Live at 11.....what's lurking in your swimming pool!!!!!! LooseChickens

take dust masks and stuff like Visine for your eyes. Terribly dusty and gritty. Really, really hot, too. LooseChickens

Well, we've lived for fifteen years nomadically, in RVs. Not an Airstream, although we have friends who have had them. The old Airstreams do, indeed, have a cult following, although the new ones are really kind of average, poor storage, cramped, etc. I think that for a lot of people, for...

We haven't sold any, but we haven't bought any either. Not because we wouldn't want to, possibly, but because we are getting ready to go off to Europe for a couple of months (fiddling while Rome burns?), and have been keeping our cash up in anticipation of the extra expenditures coming. Not...