There's a peculiar kind of clarity at rock bottom and more when you have climbed up from it a number of times.
Although "climbed up" is relative to expectations, I still think cans of baked beans are great and the scorn of society is a funny thing. I wonder if they will like baked beans and find humor in being scorned?
Yeah, but most people who hit bottom like to float around there...
A few of us have genuine bad luck and bounce back.
I haven't been broke since I was a child, but I never had a lot ether. I moved abroad with 100K and a modest rental 1/1 condo in Orlando. Built a house abroad and lived abroad 3 years. Still had 12k when I returned to the states. Didn't collect SS until returning to the USA @ 62 sold the rental because wife got a job in Tenn. So after paying off the HELOC I netted 15K on Condo. Now I'm @25K, but its expensive to return from abroad with a few suitcases each, have to rebuy everything.
Now I'm not trying to accumulate above the 25K, I want to enjoy life a bit. No sense in letting the medical industry get it. LOL
Really as long as you have more coming in than going out you are ok in the long run. Lots of people making big income are more financially screwed than the homeless guy with no debt.
I can agree with that. I think sobriety is a good indicator of how long a person intends to stay at rock bottom or if they intend to revisit the place at some point in the future. Floaters.
I just didn't adjust well post-military and as an added problem I was too bold in starting businesses with the wrong kind of people. Which is hardly a deflection of responsibility as I was also the wrong kind of people. All the same, it was costly, and then repeated for similar results.
I'm steady as it gets today. I bring in more than I have going out, I pay ahead on a mortgage I can afford, my vehicles are free and clear and in good condition, my tools and property are all well-maintained and I am in good health, if not in fighting shape. I live a simple life and don't have a lot of superficial possessions or expenses. Aside from the good health I could stand to lose everything and be fine. Honestly, what I want is war for me, but not for thee. Baked beans and scorn isn't a problem for me. Realistically though, the elites would never fall that far anyway, the good common people the world over could and would, and I really wouldn't want that for them. I'm against collapse as an option. I'm not convinced it is necessary.
My caveat in life was working low wage, failing at a few business ventures by giving up to easily, and smoking too much weed. I have A.D.D. from that and / or fetal alcohol syndrome. I had a rough childhood and self-medicated on weed rather than get involved with the "system"
Thanks fren. Stay up and ride this one out. If it all collapses I doubt Americans will sit back and and hide from it. We'll pick it back up. We always do.
There's a peculiar kind of clarity at rock bottom and more when you have climbed up from it a number of times.
Although "climbed up" is relative to expectations, I still think cans of baked beans are great and the scorn of society is a funny thing. I wonder if they will like baked beans and find humor in being scorned?
Yeah, but most people who hit bottom like to float around there...
A few of us have genuine bad luck and bounce back.
I haven't been broke since I was a child, but I never had a lot ether. I moved abroad with 100K and a modest rental 1/1 condo in Orlando. Built a house abroad and lived abroad 3 years. Still had 12k when I returned to the states. Didn't collect SS until returning to the USA @ 62 sold the rental because wife got a job in Tenn. So after paying off the HELOC I netted 15K on Condo. Now I'm @25K, but its expensive to return from abroad with a few suitcases each, have to rebuy everything.
Now I'm not trying to accumulate above the 25K, I want to enjoy life a bit. No sense in letting the medical industry get it. LOL
Really as long as you have more coming in than going out you are ok in the long run. Lots of people making big income are more financially screwed than the homeless guy with no debt.
I can agree with that. I think sobriety is a good indicator of how long a person intends to stay at rock bottom or if they intend to revisit the place at some point in the future. Floaters.
I just didn't adjust well post-military and as an added problem I was too bold in starting businesses with the wrong kind of people. Which is hardly a deflection of responsibility as I was also the wrong kind of people. All the same, it was costly, and then repeated for similar results.
I'm steady as it gets today. I bring in more than I have going out, I pay ahead on a mortgage I can afford, my vehicles are free and clear and in good condition, my tools and property are all well-maintained and I am in good health, if not in fighting shape. I live a simple life and don't have a lot of superficial possessions or expenses. Aside from the good health I could stand to lose everything and be fine. Honestly, what I want is war for me, but not for thee. Baked beans and scorn isn't a problem for me. Realistically though, the elites would never fall that far anyway, the good common people the world over could and would, and I really wouldn't want that for them. I'm against collapse as an option. I'm not convinced it is necessary.
You are doing great!
My caveat in life was working low wage, failing at a few business ventures by giving up to easily, and smoking too much weed. I have A.D.D. from that and / or fetal alcohol syndrome. I had a rough childhood and self-medicated on weed rather than get involved with the "system"
Thanks fren. Stay up and ride this one out. If it all collapses I doubt Americans will sit back and and hide from it. We'll pick it back up. We always do.