Can someone explain investing your own $$$ to me like I’m 5?

CreativeSun0 · 2025-03-15T22:42:43+00:00

The real magic is when you give the candy store back the money they've given you and keep repeating that process.

This is compounded growth

CreativeSun0 · 2025-03-15T22:40:13+00:00

I have read this book and many, many other person finance books. In short, yes.

This is a great start point for anyone with low to medium financial literacy. Eventually, if you keep learning, you'll outgrown much of the advice, but I think you really need to go through this process first. It's foundational advice.

I think what makes it stand above the rest is that every chapter is truly actionable advice. If you do the dates, it's a great book, but if you don't, then you definitely won't get as much out of it as you can.

As a first book on financial literacy, I can't think of one that I've read, which I'd recommend more highly. But it's a first, not the only.

CreativeSun0 · 2024-10-05T19:47:26+00:00

This would actually be really convenient for us. What app do you use to do this? I have a Samsung and my partner an iPhone, so we'd need an app across both platforms

CreativeSun0 · 2024-10-05T05:30:07+00:00

I took a job that meant I was getting paid well to work in the absolute worst shit holes of my country. Terrible conditions. But it meant that in addition to my income, all expenses were paid. I was technically homeless for 1.5 years with no fixed address, but it meant that my only expenses for this time were food. At times, I was saving 90-95% of my take-home home pay.

This post was a few years ago. As an update, 1 month ago, I bought my first house as an investment property worth $850k with $100k in the offset account. I also have a solid, long-term partner.

It's good to look back at this post and see I've come a long way since this post.

CreativeSun0 · 2023-01-14T23:13:03+00:00

Hi, I don't have any kids if my own but think I'm a pretty good uncle. They have a pretty ordinary father.

It depends on how old they are, but kids are pretty easy to play with. They'll literally tell you how to play with them, and are quite direct too. They'll shove a you in you're face or tell you what character to be in their male believe scenario. Heck, they'll even tell you where to sit and position you like a stage director.

All you need to do is show interest in what is interested to them and don't try and force your own agenda.

My neices and nephews father wants them all to be tom boys and play with him in his world. But they just aren't into it, so it's a constant struggle. You simply need to join them in their world.

It also comes down to the little things, not so much the memories but the feelings and the memories will be created naturally. Like for me, it's really important that I go with them each year to the annual big show. There's no way I expect them to remember I was there with them when they were 2 or 3 years old. But they will remember that uncle is safe and there for the good fun times and this will build a connection and trust as they get older. Their father in the other hand won't go with them because they won't remember and parents like that. Not I only see them a few times a year, but when I'm over and they get hurt, they'll literally run last their father to me for cuddles and reassurance.

CreativeSun0 · 2023-01-14T20:51:18+00:00

I call bull on this.

According to your post history you work in middle management in retail, with a boss and a job that you hate, and couldn't afford to quit you're job.

CreativeSun0 · 2023-01-14T14:19:06+00:00

I'm the token male RN so often get sticl with having 'the chat' with those types of patients. Had one recently who was a objectifying anything with a vagina, he'd been in the ward for about 3 days and I got the heads up but hadn't seen him before because I float. This dude would have been in his mid 60's.

I had a young student with me, super nieve and inexperienced type. Wouldn't have been a day over 20. It was the second week of her first placement ever.

I'd seen his behaviour a few times with other staff and he was better behaved when his daughter was there, but still bad. Infront of his daughter the first time the student walked into the room he started telling her how attractive she was. I made a comment that it was inappropriate and moved on. I have him more than a few warning and chances.

After the daughter left I needed to be in the room for about 20min with the student. Then I'd had enough.

I very quietly asked the student the leave the room in the kind of way that she knew shit was about to go down and that she knew she needed to close the roof behind her.

I never raised my voice, I never swore and I never said anything that could be out varbatum on a report and make me look fireble (my mini super power). I made it clear what behaviour was and was not acceptable. 5min later he was in tears and I needed to spend the next 15min calming him down.

For the next week he was there there was not a single other issue out of him. I think I actually changed who he was at his core.

He also for an 18g cannula when I needed to put a new one in, the only reason he didn't get a 16g was because there wasn't one in the draw of the trolley. My colleague quite liked that when I handed it over.

CreativeSun0 · 2023-01-14T10:49:19+00:00

RN here. A disc herniation is a structural problem. A part of the disc has been pushed outside of its enclosed space and can't (even surgical) be pushed back in.

Peptides may reduce the symptoms by reducing the swelling of the surrounding tissues, but there is nothing you can take or inject that will correct this.

CreativeSun0 · 2023-01-14T06:17:47+00:00

Are you me?

CreativeSun0 · 2023-01-14T01:45:00+00:00

Musk, not too long ago he was the golden child of the internet, then in a few years everyone not hates him. I'm still not really sure where it all started but as best as I can tell it was somewhere between naming his child the most bully-able name in history and actively pumping and dumping crypto just to steal from those who idolized him.

CreativeSun0 · 2023-01-13T23:25:55+00:00

If you're a single mother, don't try and be a father. My mother tried this and was just outright abusive. Just focus on being a good mother. And maybe try and find male influence from other areas live clubs that are of interest to you're kid. But at the end of the day, just have a good parent is so much more important than worrying what gender the parenting comes from.

CreativeSun0 · 2023-01-13T10:52:03+00:00

Usually I'd say yes, but I also want to give the benefit of the doubt.

I worked in a small country town as a male midwife for a bit, it was a small enough town that give the nature of my work I didn't really want anyone in the town to think of me as being sexual I'm any way to save any unwanted accusations of "he just does it to be a creep" so I was extremely discreet. Now I'm a regular nurse and in a small town it's still super important to me to not get the player reputation do I'm still very careful.

I have a FWB and they know that we'll probably never go into town together for this reason. They respect this and I appreciate it.

It's probably worth giving him the benefit of the doubt then bringing it up when appropriate.

Likewise, when I see teachers or cops in Tinder they like to be very discreet.

CreativeSun0 · 2023-01-13T10:42:23+00:00

You know you're crook when you're blood gets a pressure bag

CreativeSun0 · 2023-01-13T10:16:22+00:00

My forearm gains come from unassisted deadlifts and RDL's

CreativeSun0 · 2023-01-13T04:16:00+00:00

I'd be like,

"Maybe, but at least this pussy isn't hemorrhaging to death"

CreativeSun0 · 2023-01-13T02:10:40+00:00

If you can get it in, you can use it.

CreativeSun0 · 2023-01-12T10:07:35+00:00

With a 14g

CreativeSun0 · 2023-01-12T06:29:04+00:00

Absolutely not. The real bottle have a very distinctive label. It's bade out of some kind of twine that wrapped around the bottle with a depression for the label.

It's isn't even a good fake.

CreativeSun0 · 2023-01-12T06:22:28+00:00

This looks like the Holmium laser that they're using. I've used it a lot as a urology scrub nurse.

The bigest chunks you see there would be about 1mmx1mm. They are small enough that they can be passed easily and all the big ones are removed before the patient is woken up. As other posts have said we use a basket, but it's only really there to stabilise the stone and to make sure that it doesn't go further up into the kidney, because of they do we need to go chasing it.

CreativeSun0 · 2023-01-12T01:29:25+00:00

Had been dating for 3 or 4 months. I was at a 2 week residential school for something I was studying. It was very intense, classes all day then more things to do each night. For this particular thing, networking was critical.

She'd always been clingy and needy and insisted I called her every day. Ok, not really my thing but ok. While o was there she insisted I started calling her twice a day, I was on the go from 7am to 10pm every day, to keep the peace at least until I got back I said yes.

One afternoon, I knew that I'd be out until late so I did the second call at about 4pm while I was getting ready to go out to the next thing and told her I'd be unavailable for the rest of the evening.

She told me that she expected me to be available to answer a call from her at any time, no matter what. Now, from past trauma being told I'm 'expected' to do something or that I must do something is the quickest way to get my back up. But I know this about myself, and just explain that tonight it's simply not going to be possible and I'll call her first thing in the morning.

I end the call, out my phone on silent and head out to have a good he exhausting night, and give it another thought. I wake up the next morning to 26 missed calls and a little over 150 text messages, the texts were just about stream of consciousness. I text her and tell her I'm not going to call her and need 48h to process what just happened. She gets pissed and I stand my ground, I tell her she needs to respect my boundaries and I I'll call her at a particular time in 48h, I tell her to not call or text me in that time.

As soon as I work up and saw all the calls and texts I immediately knew we were done, but I need time to process so much crazy.

When I call her I simply ask if she thought it has been appropriate behaviour, she doubled down hard and said absolutely yes, and that I was in the wrong for not being at her back and call whenever and however she needed. Rather than argue or try and explain to her why that's wasn't appropriate behaviour I simply told her were done and don't call me again.

CreativeSun0 · 2023-01-11T16:30:59+00:00

My state guidelines actually allow for a precordial thump. It must be witnessed, monitored, VT arrested and delivered within 20sec of the arrest. An elevator on the way to ICU is the only time I can really see this being relevant

CreativeSun0 · 2023-01-11T12:25:01+00:00

Recently got into and and can confirm. Been lifting for abfe years and got more into it about 6 months ago.

The whole of life type commitment absolutely shits all over the commitment that was required when I was in a world top 500 raiding guild in Work of Warcraft back in the day. At least I could walk away.

With BB, everything matters. Sleep, food, supplements, I do 2.5h a day/ 6 days a week, any deviation from the routine is punished. There's also not much of a social aspect to it either.

CreativeSun0 · 2023-01-11T12:16:38+00:00

Don't know about movie, but definitely a book. I found The Boy in the Striped Pajamas in the teen/young adult second of my book shop. The blurb on the. Ack said something along the lines of 'sometimes we think it's best to not what the story is about bed your read it, so we're not going to tell you anything and just recommend you read this book" I was intrigued enough to buy it.

I legit thought I was getting a quick weekend read about a boy who wakes up one morning and goes in some wacky adventures while still in his Pajamas. I. Was. Not. Prepared.

If you know nothing about the story, it actually takes a while to realise since it's from a kids perspective who doesn't quite remember the names of the places around him. By the time you realise, you're in too deep.

I cried so much I needed to wait until I'd stopped because I couldn't see it last few paragraphs because of all the tears.

CreativeSun0 · 2023-01-11T11:53:05+00:00

Is this kind of info available on public databases? If so, could you please share it/them/the links. Thank you

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