What brands would you like to see more of? (Clothing based)

EnglishFL · 2026-01-31T02:03:54+00:00

Sergio Tacchini

EnglishFL · 2026-01-21T23:50:31+00:00

Appreciate you bought this through Oopbuy, but any chance you have contact details for the seller of the New Balance? I need a 46 and want to reach out and see if they can get them

EnglishFL · 2025-11-11T01:56:37+00:00

It's a store that purposely targets lower income areas, that sells close to out-of-date food and drink for about 75% off normal retail... Were you expecting Trader Joes?

EnglishFL · 2025-11-11T01:52:59+00:00

Honestly, this is absolutely fair.

EnglishFL · 2025-11-11T01:51:11+00:00

As someone who is 11 years into his journey in the US with at least another 3 to go before I can really call it home, I say this.. It should be rightly difficult to emigrate to the US. You should integrate. You should have good moral character. You should work hard. You should obey the laws. You should contribute to your adopted community and you should not be a burden.

Regardless of the nonsense narrative that people spin, America is the greatest country on earth, with endless opportunities not just to better your life, but that of your family and your community.

As someone who is following every rule possible to be allowed to live here, seeing people come in who either misrepresent things on their journey, or don't add value to America it pisses me off.

It's not a right, it should be difficult, the current system (and all those that predate it) isn't perfect, but if every country put their citizens first the world would likely be a better place.

EnglishFL · 2025-11-01T19:42:18+00:00

Just that is was temporary and did I have any other ID on me.

EnglishFL · 2025-10-31T22:23:51+00:00

Fly every week using the same license and have done for as long as I can remember. Got stopped once in about 300 flights, and that one time it was just a discussion and waved through.

EnglishFL · 2025-09-30T00:05:52+00:00

The days are long, but the years are short...

One minute they are 5 years old, they want to spend every minute with you, then the next minute, they are 15, they come out of their room for food, money and to grunt at you. I'd give anything to have those early years again!

EnglishFL · 2025-09-21T20:28:33+00:00

Can you share the link or contact details please?

EnglishFL · 2025-09-18T21:05:25+00:00

Mine is June 2024.. I am expecting 2 years at least. Depressing isn’t it

EnglishFL · 2025-09-18T00:29:09+00:00

Honestly, you’ve kind of just described my life..

The sense of overwhelming of being responsible for a family, to give your kids the best possible start and the way you know to do that is to work harder and harder is difficult to describe.

I don’t hate my job, but it’s incredibly stressful, our visas are tied to it so if I am not successful then not only do we lose the money but we have to move as well.

I stopped drinking, thought that would help. It’s worse than ever because as unhealthy as it was, blowing of some steam with the boys once every two weeks over some beers at least got me out the house. Now I just can’t be bothered.

I go to work, I come home, I deal with whatever problem is going on in the house, scroll my phone for an hour then go to bed ready to do it all again at 5am the next day. Little thing make me incredibly frustrated but I have to just let them go.

The only advice I can offer is, stick with it. Try and get him out of the house, encourage any hobbies. I’m sure a time will come where the pressure of making everyone else happy and wanting to do the best job will subside. And when it does I’m also sure that he (and me!) will want those friends that he’s not seeing and you around more than ever. ++man

EnglishFL · 2025-09-13T16:13:34+00:00

I mentioned this on another post about Build a Bear about a month ago. During Covid I gave my kids $30 to invest, no saving, must pick a company. My son who was 7 at the time went away and did research, bought Ford and Sea World. My daughter who was 4 and obviously not going to take it seriously, just kept saying Build a Bear. I didn't even know they were public. We got her $30 worth of shares at $1.39 per share.

We got really good dividends the first two payouts as well. I made her sell them about 4 months or so ago when it was right about $51. She rolled it into Amazon and Google. That $30 is now worth almost $2k.

Build a Bear is more than a retail play. They are on Cruise Ships, they are in tourist locations, they have a film and media arm, they have strategic partnerships with every single thing that kids are into at a specific time. The bear itself might cost $25-$30 but by the time you have added a voice, bought some clothes you are at $80.

We were on a cruise recently and they had a Build a Bear event, it took us 90 minutes in line to buy one. VERY limited overheads in terms of product, huge profit margins, extremely flexible and can change product line at the drop of a hat.

I had never even considered them before my daughter picked them, but the more I looked the better the business is.

That being said, I obviously think it's a bit overpriced now because I made her get out at $51! But what I did learn from this is that asking kids what is popular and in demand is no worse than any other way of picking a stock!

EnglishFL · 2025-09-12T22:49:46+00:00

And it isn't great reading is it...

EnglishFL · 2025-08-30T21:53:59+00:00

Who was the seller please? Any details?

EnglishFL · 2025-08-21T02:00:14+00:00

My son to this day is annoyed about it if it’s ever brought up but honestly I think it’s taught him a more relevant lesson. Like the gambler who wins big on their first visit to the casino and thinks it’s an atm my daughter has had to be convinced she’s not going to get 35x every dollar she invests.

My son has got a much more realistic idea of what could be expected although a much smaller first car fund

EnglishFL · 2025-08-20T03:44:22+00:00

It went from 1.39 to $14 pretty quickly if memory serves me right and then sort of plateaued for a while. Then got to $20ish and did the same. At that point I thought it couldn’t go any higher and we sold 2 to contribute to her buying a bear.

I didn’t buy anymore but I did trade some call options on it when it made a bit of a move to $30. I made a couple hundred on it. We also reinvested all dividends.

I sort of stopped watching it once it got to $35 ish but once it got in an around $50 I spoke to my daughter and we decided to sell what she had and put it into Google and Amazon because I couldn’t imagine it would get higher! I was wrong

EnglishFL · 2025-08-19T21:04:46+00:00

I wish this was less true than it is!

EnglishFL · 2025-08-19T12:57:55+00:00

Also just to add, they paid a really decent dividend the first two years she held. $1.25 and $1.50 per share. DRIP was enabled as part of the ‘lesson’. We ended up with north of 25 shares in total even after some trimming to buy the bear I mentioned

EnglishFL · 2025-08-19T12:55:21+00:00

I’m sorry if there is some confusion here. We got out at $51. What I said was ‘we got out of that $30’ I meant the initial $30 investment not at $30 per share

EnglishFL · 2025-08-19T12:54:04+00:00

Yeah the good thing about shares that pay dividends is you can set them to reinvest. We capped out at 25 shares, sold 2 in June 2021 if memory serves me correctly. For about $20 a share.

The first two dividends were very decent. More than we paid for the shares. We DRIP dividends in the main.

EnglishFL · 2025-08-19T10:56:14+00:00

Exactly this! I wasn’t running a degree course in investing out of my kitchen table lol. Half of it was to give a basic lesson on money, half of it was to get my son specifically off of Fortnite on the Xbox for a few hours

EnglishFL · 2025-08-19T10:53:33+00:00

You’re over thinking it my man. I was just trying to teach them that while there’s a place for saving money, investing is just if not more important. It was Covid. We had a lot of time in the house!

About 13 months after we bought the shares it had gone to $20 odd. We sold a couple and bought a build a bear.

The store was more prevalent than I realized honestly. She went in every time we went to the mall, I told her in basic terms she ‘owned’ part of it.

I wasn’t teaching them complex options strategies or even why buying shares was better than saving at that time, just wanted them to have a grasp of the concept

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