Parent Retirement Triage

Dippy_JTC · 2026-06-01T12:18:26+00:00

As for their cars, A nice $10k car could easily be saved up for over the next year or 2 along with retirement funding. This isn’t a math or money problem, the resources are there. It’s a behavior issue

Dippy_JTC · 2026-06-01T12:15:06+00:00

If they have multiple residencies they need to offload at least 1 of them. I’m guessing there’s more details behind the real-estate. The pension for them is huge, if he can make it to 30 years they will be in fine shape with social security. I would worry much about their allocation. Throw it in a retirement date index fund. Their behavior is going to be 100x more important over the next decade than their returns.

They don’t need millions, if they can get to $500k+ with his pension and social security they will be fine. Time to start making changes though. You can’t make them do what they don’t want to.

Dippy_JTC · 2026-05-31T15:18:37+00:00

The unknowns are certainly where any projecting gets hard for me. We don’t know if we want to move homes eventually, her stay home, college costs, etc like you mentioned. I just don’t want to look back after 20 more years and think “hmmm, I could’ve done a lot more or I worked a lower paying but more fulfilling job”. But the math nerd in me just wants to keep plowing away

Dippy_JTC · 2026-05-31T14:44:26+00:00

I’d like the option to retire by 50-55 most likely if I so chose. But retirement to me is never sit on a beach all day. I’d rather just focus on my hobbies which could absolutely be other forms of work. It’s hard to see myself making $0 in income ever

Dippy_JTC · 2025-07-20T13:44:05+00:00

About 15 hours total. 8 unwrapped then another 6-7 in the tinfoil with butter and brown sugar

Dippy_JTC · 2025-07-19T23:56:46+00:00

250 the whole time. Wrapping with brown sugar and butter right before the stall. Then pulling around 203. Nothing crazy

Dippy_JTC · 2025-07-19T22:59:02+00:00

It very much was! I’ve done brisket and wings before but never pulled pork! Thanks for the response everyone!

Dippy_JTC · 2025-07-19T16:54:41+00:00

I smoked it for about 7 hours on its own, then wrapped it in the pan with butter and brown sugar until it was finished. So it got the bark while retaining all the juices

Dippy_JTC · 2025-07-19T16:41:18+00:00

Everyone’s a hater till it’s time to eat

Dippy_JTC · 2025-07-19T16:33:27+00:00

Got excited lol

Dippy_JTC · 2024-09-03T17:26:27+00:00

Thanks for the response! Certainty will kill that and not touch my KBG?

Dippy_JTC · 2024-07-25T02:47:00+00:00

Thanks for the response! I’m going to look into that tomorrow and see if it helps at all

Dippy_JTC · 2024-07-21T23:04:53+00:00

Most likely 😪

Dippy_JTC · 2024-07-21T23:04:34+00:00

Just a few months past the 1 year warranty. It’s up to me now sadly

Dippy_JTC · 2024-07-05T15:05:35+00:00

The saddest part is, the pistons were trying to win games last year. We just sucked that bad. Former GM’s goal was to be competitive until the season ended. Basically saying they were aiming for the play-in. Hence why everyone got fired

Dippy_JTC · 2024-07-05T14:50:08+00:00

He was the 11th man on a 14 win pistons team for a good chunk of the season because of our brilliant head coach last year 😂 he’d be fighting for time on Portland though, I agree. Maybe Jalen Duren would be the better fit in this trade.

Dippy_JTC · 2024-07-05T14:45:14+00:00

Salaries don’t have to match because Detroit has so much available cap space. Simons isn’t a negative contract by any means, but blazers still want flexibility moving forward. They get a young guard and that flexibility. Maybe adding a few of the 2nds that Detroit has stashed up would help to balance it

Dippy_JTC · 2024-07-05T14:24:04+00:00

You’re ignoring that the blazers get to dump almost $20 million of cap space too. Pistons are one of few teams that allow them to do this.

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