lucky penny
Full time employment: Posting here.
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p.s. I think that a lot of life's happiness is based on how you frame things in your mind.
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p.s. I think that a lot of life's happiness is based on how you frame things in your mind.
One way I frame things like this in my mind is that I scrimpped and saved for many years -- during which this would have really bothered me.
Now that I am FI and passive income exceeds expenses, this is the sort of luxury, "blow that dough" that I can afford.
A few dollars spent to make life easier (ie not jumping through their hoops), is money well spent!
-gauss
p.s. I think that a lot of life's happiness is based on how you frame things in your mind.
One way I frame things like this in my mind is that I scrimpped and saved for many years -- during which this would have really bothered me.
Now that I am FI and passive income exceeds expenses, this is the sort of luxury, "blow that dough" that I can afford.
A few dollars spent to make life easier (ie not jumping through their hoops), is money well spent!
-gauss
p.s. I think that a lot of life's happiness is based on how you frame things in your mind.
I gave up doing the ID.Me stuff, it was laboriously slow and failed more often than not.
I guess should try again, seems it sent me in circles last time (2 years ago?). IIRC, it really got hung up on the face recognition, I think it needed better lighting on my webcam, but the lighting wasn't terrible - seems they ask quite a bit from the user.
I may be fairly young compared to others int he group (62) but I have Id.me and did not have any trouble getting it. I needed it as a treasurer of a non profit at the time, a couple of years ago. My 90 year old father-in-law has a smart phone and does ask us for help on techy stuff when he needs it. I think it is important to stay current, so my advice would be to go ahead and get a smart phone. It is definitely good for us to learn new things as we age.
I personally think smart phones are highly overrated. Mine sits on the counter most of the time. Too big to carry around comfortably and nothing I can't do faster on my laptop. (Yes I realize they make smaller phones but they cost more and since I have not been impressed at all I have not bothered. I keep meaning to cancel the contract actually I just don't get around to it).
I do find it funny that it is almost like a sin to say out loud that I don't like it. I don't like chocolate either.
And to anyone saying how can I use it when out if on the counter . . . I have never been anywhere in my life there aren't people with phones around me somewhere I could ask for an emergency call. I did that when I wrecked the car. It was fine. Someone had already called the police -I just needed to catch a ride home.