donheff
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I second (or third) the "do without it" school. Lots of things we like are not important to us at all. Worrying that we won't be able to cover the essentials is.
It's far too short for imoldernu.I was convinced this was a post from imoldernu, until I saw that it had been posted by Ha. Quite a shock to the old system to see a post from Ha, written in a style that is not the norm for him.
It's far too short for imoldernu.
I know someone that inherited a large amount of Dow Chemical stock which is where there father had worked. He was also supposed to keep the stock forever. Once he got the stock in his control, he immediately diversified out of Dow Chemical into a diversified portfolio. He hasn't told his mother but he intends to do the same with his share of her stock when she passes away.I'm reminded of a discourse in a personal finance book. The author recounted the story of how a family patriarch had passed down to his children some IBM stock with the admonition to "never sell the IBM stock!". They dutifully followed that advice for three generations. The author then listed all the needs that went unfilled because the families would not sell the stock. The child who didn't get a college education, the sale of a family home, etc. The obvious point is to remember that money/assets are tools to be used when needed. Not things to hoard for their own sake.
Sigh. Why must everything have a purpose? Can't it just "be"?
Money is like my mother's fine china -- never to be used, but to be comforted in the fact that one has it in the cabinet, just in case someone important should come for dinner.
So Ha, what is not to like about Costco - free "hors d'oeuvres", food and gas at prices barely above cost, $5 deli chickens, 2% cash back memberships that can be used with a 2% cash back AM Ex card, and employees paid a living wage.
Charlie Munger shops at Costco:
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He has said "I believe Costco does more for civilization than the Rockefeller Foundation."
Munger Says Costco Beats Charity as Buffett Signs Up Donors - Bloomberg
Why pay more at other stores for the same items? If nothing else you could always give the savings to charity. Our local Costco has a lot of healthy, organic products at discount prices.
Pretty much gets my feelings also. Between continuing to work and not having to shop at Costco, or retiring and having to shop at Costco (or worse yet Wal-Mart) I would take the no-Costco choice. It's just a personality flaw, maybe even a disorder.Bridgette pretty much sums it up for me: Top 10 reasons I hate Costco
So I can retire and shop at the box store (BJs in our case, not Costco) on weekdays when it's not crowded. Seriously, arrive at 9 a.m., in and out in 35 minutes with 2 weeks' worth of provender. Oh, and we haven't seen the weird little guy who tried to run races with Mr. A. since we quit going there on Saturdays. That's OK; let him own Saturdays!
Amethyst
I don’t get it. They just stand there. Maybe their cart is stuck in gum. Maybe they have short-circuited and just shut down. Maybe they are self-centered jerks who don’t care they are blocking everyone behind them. Whatever the case, I hate them.
All of the above. Mostly having options.
Oh, about people who just stand there apparently thinking "Should I block this aisle or go over there and block that one?"
No sure if this should go in the "Pet Peeve" thread or "What Laws Do You Think Should be Broken?" thread. But those people should be taken out and put in stocks. And not the financial kind.
I was convinced this was a post from imoldernu, until I saw that it had been posted by Ha. Quite a shock to the old system to see a post from Ha, written in a style that is not the norm for him.
The purpose to me was to be able to sing this little ditty walking away from work on the last day:
If you don't work in IT then you have no idea how precarious it sometimes feels keeping things working... Higher ups don't understand nor appreciate the importance of the work. To them spending money on IT is like throwing it down a rat hole. So you never have enough money to do things properly. Sometimes you have be like MacGyver... keeping crap running with duct tape.
I sometimes wonder/hope that places like Vanuguard, where I have almost half a million in assets, do not run their IT environment as underfunded/unappreciated as most companies seem to do...
If you don't work in IT then you have no idea how precarious it sometimes feels keeping things working...