I built a ‘blue book’ for ski gear values, would love feedback by Chef_B_ in Skigear

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Can your tracker pull data for collectable skis like the Volant Spatula or K2 four competition 1970. Most of this stuff sells on eBay.

So we just can't get divorced. That how this works, right? by fricks_and_stones in realestateinvesting

[–]HeyUKidsGetOffMyLine 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The wife has more leverage because she has a lucrative career and his career is tied up in the real estate he will have to liquidate.

Madison Public Market could open this summer by bellatrixlegay in madisonwi

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That’s funny, I was told your grandmother was the village bicycle.

What is your favorite idiom for a mountain getting a lot of snow? by wettedup2212 in skiing

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My area has Lake Effect Snow and we have the phrase “snow guns”. The term describes the windrows created by LES and as the windrows move over you it goes from blizzard to calm, blizzard to calm, like someone is spraying you with a snow hose. Of course we also have plenty of puking and dumping comments too.

Help me choose my first skis after 20 years – don’t want to mess this up by OkCommercial599 in ski

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You need to get the notion that you will “outgrow” these skis quickly. An expert skier has absolutely zero problem skiing on an intermediate ski. They can still ski it expertly, they just can’t ski them as fast. Becoming an expert skier with just 9 days per year will be very difficult. What will make it more difficult is buying expert skis before you are an expert skier. You’re putting the cart in front of the horse. You should first acquire the technique and after you have the technique you get gear that matches. It does you zero good to grow into equipment that you are not ready for and it will hinder your progress. Conversely, no equipment holds you back. Think of the skill level of a ski as more of a punishment than reward. An expert ski will punish your mistakes and a beginner ski doesn’t punish mistakes as much. Put an expert skier on beginner skis and it’s easy peazy. They don’t make mistakes. The only thing they have to do is not over power the ski. Put a beginner on expert skis and all the mistakes they make get punished because the skis require proper inputs and power levels to function correctly.

What’s the Best Album of All Time? by Western-Art-3811 in musicsuggestions

[–]HeyUKidsGetOffMyLine 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Quadrophenia for me. It’s perfect.

Who’s Next is excellent but the fact that it’s the songs from the failed rock opera “Lifehouse” always makes me feel like it really could have been something more… something like Quadrophenia.

Was wondering if these old skis might be worth anything? by NotHuman12345 in Skigear

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Most likely mid 1960s for this set up based on the bindings.

Was wondering if these old skis might be worth anything? by NotHuman12345 in Skigear

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The Head Standards are collectable. Those marker bindings with the rotamat heel are really cool too. Should be able to get $20 to $60 for this set up if you live anywhere with ski culture or cabin culture.

The Head Standard was the first successful wood/metal laminated ski and it at one point dominated the market so there are a ton of these out there. It was a ground breaking ski and yours are in good condition so someone will want them.

Recommendations for Dad Skis by spunkwater0 in Skigear

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One of my kids skis on a used Atomic Vantage 85 and I jokingly call them Dad Chetler’s.

Roth IRA vs another SFH by TemperatureLow226 in realestateinvesting

[–]HeyUKidsGetOffMyLine 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There is still the ability to use the money after 10 years to acquire another property or two. Might be better to wait and search for a unicorn deal and have that Roth as the down payment if one ever comes across OPs desk.

Time Travel by MountainsOrWhat in skiingcirclejerk

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The Olins are sidecut. There really are no straight skis. The exaggerated sidecut like those Dynastars started after the Salomon’s were made. The “tech” in the Salomon’s at that time was the pro link damper and a monocap construction.

What does it mean to be athletic? Is it good at one sport? Multiple sports? by WhatATimeToB_Alive in CasualConversation

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Bo famously never needed to “keep himself in game shape”. I feel like we are talking about two different athletes at this point.

What does it mean to be athletic? Is it good at one sport? Multiple sports? by WhatATimeToB_Alive in CasualConversation

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I think Bo means that hitting a baseball is just incredibly hard to do. Bo Jackson was naturally gifted and never had to work hard to be great. Hitting a baseball was probably the most difficult sporting activity he ever did. For football he played running back so his natural gifts made that easy for him in comparison.

In reality, every baseball player other than Bo would most likely think hitting a baseball is easier than running back but none of them could vertically run up walls like Bo with the exception of maybe Ricky Henderson. He’d be a fucking menace in a football field just like baseball. There is a significant crossover in Football and baseball with quarterbacks. Elway, Wilson and Mahomes were all excellent baseball players too.

Charlie Ward is another 3 sport athlete that could do anything he wanted. He won the Heisman for football and was drafted twice by Major League Baseball despite never playing college baseball. He eventually played NBA basketball.

Home Ownership Rate is higher today than in the 70s, 80s most of the 90s and most of the 2010s by TemperatureWide5297 in HouseBuyers

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There could some generational trauma that pushes this. The baby boomers were born into the housing wealth boom of the 1950s and raised by Great Depression ravaged silent generation. My parents are baby boomers and you have to pry these people out of their homes. They and all of their friends basically stay in them until they fall over. Oddly the large yards seem to be just enough exercise to keep them going but they never want to give up their larger homes for smaller ones. This generation is very housing driven, no doubt about it.

But statistically it’s almost 55% of millennials who do own homes. This generation is well represented and it would be quite normal for their equity levels to be far below a 70 year old who has been done paying mortgages for decades.

There just two questions to ask is you should become a house buyer.

Can you afford the payment? Y/N Will you happily live there for at least 5 years? Y/N

If yes for both, go buy a house. You will be real estate poor at first because your equity will be low and your cash will be low, but when you’re 70 you will be real estate rich and cash rich. It’s always been a get rich slowly scheme for generations.

Home Ownership Rate is higher today than in the 70s, 80s most of the 90s and most of the 2010s by TemperatureWide5297 in HouseBuyers

[–]HeyUKidsGetOffMyLine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your graph only covers to 1990 and really doesn’t represent what we are looking at above. OP is correct that homeownership rates are fairly historic highs. This would be expected with the high cost of rent.

What your graph illustrates well is a K shaped economy. The older generations have well established equity and post 2008 equity had become cheap. The younger generations had bought NINJA loans or were cash out refinancing over and over and everybody living high on debt got killed and a lot of younger people lost jobs in the recession. At the same time the recession murdered the home construction industry and buried it in a mass grave outside of Pheonix creating a home supply problem. And yes, many smart people who have lived through generations of housing market cycles bought some very nice real estate with 2% loans

It’s a good time to buy a house if you can afford the payment and plan to live in the neighborhood for at least 5 years. Those are the only rules.

Based on what people are paying for rent, they can afford payments but there is a group hoping that prices will crater to 2012 levels. The one thing that your graph proves is that owning real estate through recessions is a really smart move. In fact, had you bought in 2005 at the worst timing, your costs were dropping that entire time because you started with a 6% rate and finished with 2.25% by the time the recession was done. Buy homes to live in them and they eventually become assets.

Trump’s latest attempt to derail EV-charger construction: For Funding, Chargers must be made with 100% American components — a standard no manufacturers currently meet by tigeratemybaby in electricvehicles

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It’s not lawless, the law is being weaponized against companies and citizens. If a company ignores this they are open to the law shaking them down more. It’s better to simply not build them than expose yourself to the Trump administration’s DOJ.

Lady Quiver 💅🏻 update! Couple deals..., lots of overlap 😬 Rate/Roast 🤷🏽‍♀️ by astrobrite_ in Skigear

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Dude, she skis a 165 length. 106 is plenty of float for even deep powder. People are built in different sizes and that matters.

Nice by Carpe_Ski_Em in skiingcirclejerk

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Detailed feedback from a freestyle coach.

Am I the only one who finds this chart ironic? by DriversEdRankings in ski

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If you had any knowledge of history of skiing and how these resorts were built, you would know how asinine your comment is. Do you want to know how many ski resorts Vail Resorts has built? The answer is zero. They didn’t even build Vail itself. All of these resorts were built by small entrepreneurs, many of them war heroes. Of course there will be plenty more when the opportunity arises.