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Post #44,053
by Ashton
7/1/02 2:05:20 AM
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New It's worked for me.
Accent upon: a clear discrimination among countless random 'wants' and some reasonable facsimile of actual? 'need' (modified by the occasional.. Oh WTF, why not?) Life IS, after all about Exceptions [Captain Picard Vol I.] and spontaneity is a deadly price ever to pay for umm 'logical conformity' 24/7.

Frankly too: the scary idea of "giving up" all that stuff: is equally a Red Herring. Once you take personal inventory and discover (don't know how to put it Universally) "what you love VS sorta like" - the triage is not at all unpleasant - it could even be called exhilarating! tossing those useless boxes of saved stuff.

As always YMMV.

Bon appetit y'all. (One lives longer eating small portions, it is said)



Ashton
Post #44,152
by a6l6e6x
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7/1/02 8:08:20 PM
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New Supporting link.
You may not care for the sponsor, but the [link|http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/020701/12333_1.html|message] is right on target.
Alex
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened." -- Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Post #44,528
by Ashton
7/5/02 7:20:20 AM
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New See whatcha mean ;-)
Well, even GE has to get it right, sometimes..

Now then, cutting out that one manicure/ week saved me $27K ??! - Wow! now I can spend it. But wait, where did it go?

(Is that the corollary of: "Hey! it's on Sale; Look at how much I'll *save* buying this ____")

We have to Face It: we're All bloody good rationalizers - A+

I wonder if the $29K for COFFEE - was at current Starbucks prices forever, otherwise pretty impressive if the # comes from integrating ascending costs over an actual 30 years.

Anyway - a good sample of the Magic of compound interest (too). But then, so was I one who enquired about the share cost of Sony Corp, early-on.. found it was about $1/share. Neglected to buy some.


So what do I know?


Ashton
     401-Ks - Are they still worth it? - (tjsinclair) - (18) - June 29, 2002, 01:02:37 AM EDT
         Does your company match any? - (bepatient) - (2) - June 29, 2002, 01:06:11 AM EDT
             Yes...6% -NT - (tjsinclair) - (1) - June 29, 2002, 11:09:51 AM EDT
                 Then you should... - (bepatient) - June 29, 2002, 01:20:22 PM EDT
         No, talk to your bank - (orion) - (7) - June 29, 2002, 12:25:12 PM EDT
             Sorry to disagree... - (bepatient) - (3) - June 29, 2002, 01:23:12 PM EDT
                 Just my luck I had the rat's *ss 401K program - (orion) - (2) - June 29, 2002, 06:20:15 PM EDT
                     Tax deferred - (kmself) - (1) - June 30, 2002, 03:02:46 AM EDT
                         Thirty years is a long time - (orion) - July 1, 2002, 10:33:19 PM EDT
             My 401K allows fixed investments - (ben_tilly) - (2) - June 29, 2002, 02:26:09 PM EDT
                 Re: My 401K allows fixed investments - (wharris2) - (1) - July 5, 2002, 08:45:22 AM EDT
                     Ditto - (ben_tilly) - July 6, 2002, 07:35:14 AM EDT
         Remember two things. - (a6l6e6x) - (6) - June 29, 2002, 10:53:06 PM EDT
             This is good advice - (tjsinclair) - (5) - June 30, 2002, 06:58:02 PM EDT
                 Basic savings advice - (ben_tilly) - (4) - June 30, 2002, 07:56:08 PM EDT
                     As always - (tjsinclair) - July 1, 2002, 01:21:42 AM EDT
                     It's worked for me. - (Ashton) - (2) - July 1, 2002, 02:05:20 AM EDT
                         Supporting link. - (a6l6e6x) - (1) - July 1, 2002, 08:08:20 PM EDT
                             See whatcha mean ;-) - (Ashton) - July 5, 2002, 07:20:20 AM EDT

This is where the night goes from "we had fun" to "mistakes were made," isn't it?
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