All the threads are due to the fact that's it's the beginning of 2015 and people are wondering how to invest fresh money into their IRA's and 401k's.
These type of $$$ threads get refreshed every year around this time.
If you ain't thinking of your honey pot for retirement on a yearly basis, don't go crying to your kids for housing & food when you're an old fart due to that you only saved up $20k and blew the rest on hookers and beer.
If I didn't know any better, I would think there are nothing but a bunch of scrooges, and bros, and attention whores on this forum from glancing at the thread titles.
Anyways, are you obsessed with money?
If I didn't know any better, I would think there are nothing but a bunch of scrooges, and bros, and attention whores on this forum from glancing at the thread titles.
Anyways, are you obsessed with money?
You made the thread, are you obsessed with money?
Only up to $500k or $1 million -- former is enough to live like a bum for the rest of my life, the latter is so I can live okay for the rest.
When I was growing up my parents were poor as fuck. My dad worked for the fed gov, my mom stayed at home. My parents had a foreclosure and 2 bankrupcies when I was growing up. During a foreclosure my dad was spending money on a attorney to try to save the house. We didn't have money for a thanksgiving meal. When I went to school the best my parents could pack for me was a pb sandwich and a apple. My mom would sew patches on all the holes on my clothes. Now I make more than my parents ever made.
So yes in a way money is very important to me.
money is a tool
like OP
When I was growing up my parents were poor as f***. My dad worked for the fed gov, my mom stayed at home. My parents had a foreclosure and 2 bankrupcies when I was growing up. During a foreclosure my dad was spending money on a attorney to try to save the house. We didn't have money for a thanksgiving meal. When I went to school the best my parents could pack for me was a pb sandwich and a apple. My mom would sew patches on all the holes on my clothes. Now I make more than my parents ever made.
So yes in a way money is very important to me.
"listen to me, son: you need to work 2 jobs at the same time"
That was true in 1970.
You gotta ramp those figures up substantially.
Wha? He worked for the Federal Gov and he didn't make enough to live on? If it wasn't enough to support a family surely he must have qualified for aid? Or were you living in a house well above your means? If you were that dirt poor, wouldn't you have qualified for free school lunches? And no money for Thanksgiving? No Salvation Army where you lived throwing a free meal for low income families? Heck even the Urban Mission around here gives away free frozen turkeys to the poor and I live in rural farm country. If it's a case of a proud father not willing to accept the help that's offered of course, that's something else.
"listen to me, son: You need to work 2 jobs at the same time"