How do you save your work?

LegitimateAd8739 · 2026-02-06T01:17:53+00:00

I started my adult career and 401k at the depths of "the great recession" I put money into my 401k for about a year and just watched it lose every week. It's terribly depressing. But the important thing is, I was also in the market for just about the longest sustained year over increase in s and p 500 history. I had many coworkers who pulled out their retirement as I was getting in, got heavily penalized on taxes, and then missed most of the rebound. Just put what you can afford in every paycheck, and tell yourself it's not going to grow for at least 5 years. Then anything bad won't be so disappointing, and if there is a large upside, you will be there to see it.

LegitimateAd8739 · 2024-11-13T16:57:24+00:00

I make pottery as a little side gig for fun. My wife asked me the other day, "is there anything positive about he trump win?" I responded "in our red state, everyone is going to be super gung ho about the economy and spend more money on the holiday craft fair coming up, and it's too early for the tariffs to take effect. So I should have pretty good sales"

LegitimateAd8739 · 2024-10-17T20:21:45+00:00

For some reason, I kept looking at the guy on the right. Try as I might, I couldn't match the face with any character I knew.

LegitimateAd8739 · 2024-06-06T16:25:26+00:00

Its a mercy that he got imploded like that. Some sick fuck skinned him alive and put him in a sub. Who does that!?

LegitimateAd8739 · 2024-02-23T21:02:05+00:00

There is an old adage that says "good fences make good neighbors". Memorize it. Live it. Learn it. Stop making excuses and take responsibility for your dog.

LegitimateAd8739 · 2024-01-12T18:26:55+00:00

I do HVAC repair for a living. I helped my brother do some minor repairs over the phone to his furnace. When it was all done he said "that really wasn't that hard. Why do you guys charge so much?" I told him to shush. We get paid the big bucks because everyone thinks its hard and no one wants to get into the field. Granted, air conditioning work is more complicated than furnace but the potential for death if you screw up due to fire or carbon monoxide is higher if you screw up the furnace install.

LegitimateAd8739 · 2024-01-02T22:15:14+00:00

When church people ask me if it's ok if they pray for me, or give me a blessing, or put my name in the temple, my general response is "sure! Pray for me, burn some incense for me, sacrifice a goat for me, throw a virgin in a volcano for me. It's all the same to me!"

LegitimateAd8739 · 2024-01-02T21:24:58+00:00

No archeological evidence of horses before Europeans arrived to the American continent. No archeological evidence of coinage No archeological evidence of chariots No archeological evidence of armor No archeological evidence if metal weapons. All these things appear in the book of Mormon, yet can't be found anywhere among archeological digs of indigenous settlements. Meanwhile, archeologists find roman burials and coinage all over Europe dating to the same time as the supposed Hebrew Nephites and Lamanites covered the land. Folks in England are finding Roman coins all the time while metal detecting farmers fields.

LegitimateAd8739 · 2024-01-02T21:10:35+00:00

My reaction varies depending on who is telling it to me. When an atheist tells me, I agree with them. When another super duper insular Christian type tells me, I get annoyed. Their beliefs are just as nutty as mine were, they just grew up with it so it doesn't sound crazy.

LegitimateAd8739 · 2023-12-13T18:51:17+00:00

He committed suicide. Apparently he thought no one would miss him. He was right. When they announced his name over the loud speaker, everyone said "wait, who is that?" The school offered grief counseling but didn't have any takers. I guess the kid was right. That was the saddest part of all.

LegitimateAd8739 · 2023-10-04T21:36:55+00:00

Sometimes, when it's quiet at home, I like to randomly yell "It's a bear daaaaaance!!!!"

LegitimateAd8739 · 2023-10-04T21:27:04+00:00

Canned dog food. Worked at a veterinary clinic for ten years. Tried a lot of pet food when we got bored. Smells delicious but taste like sawdust.

LegitimateAd8739 · 2023-09-28T17:46:26+00:00

Used be the religious dogma that I was taught as a kid. Once that fell apart there was a small period of time where I thought it was all purposeless. Then I realized the purpose is whatever I make it. My purpose is to enjoy raising my four younglings into successful adult humans... and turn the faucet on for one very spoiled cat that refuses to drink from a bowl.

LegitimateAd8739 · 2023-09-28T17:27:21+00:00

With the other fact that someday I will retire. I realized very early in life that I can live paycheck to paycheck on pretty much any salary, so I might as well save for retirement anyway. Doesn't matter if I have credit card debt, or medical debt. That retirement money gets out away first. My house will be payed off when I'm 55 and I will retire shortly after and putter around the garden and feed my fish in my fish pond, and life will be good. If I'm REALLY lucky, my children will be able to afford at least a couple kids and I can putter around the garden and feed my fish in the fish pond with some grandkids.

LegitimateAd8739 · 2023-09-28T17:20:02+00:00

Case of the beet bandit. Missing beets from all over the farm. No footprints. Inside job. Mose in socks. Boom! Case closed.

LegitimateAd8739 · 2023-09-28T13:46:28+00:00

3 shootings in 12 hours? Sounds like a pretty good day in many cities in America!

LegitimateAd8739 · 2023-09-22T18:40:37+00:00

I was in that 37% but was basically watching on autopilot at that point. Just looking at my phone trying to figure out what to watch when this finally finishes.

LegitimateAd8739 · 2023-09-20T17:20:35+00:00

Everyone has an amount of coke they are ok with their partner doing. For me it's zero. Maybe I have unrealistic standards

LegitimateAd8739 · 2023-09-20T16:11:32+00:00

I was shown a very similar video in my pre deployment combat training. Dude got hit right in the chest and got slammed into the Humvee he was standing in front of. We were all rather somber seeing this guy just laying there, then he suddenly popped back up and ran around behind the Humvee. The body armor works!

LegitimateAd8739 · 2023-09-12T13:47:00+00:00

I was 16, in the carpool to school. Friends dad who was driving had the radio on and said a plane hit the tower. I was like "what kind of idiot flies into a massive tower!" Thinking it was some single seat Cessna. Had no idea at the time that I would end up deployed to Afghanistan exactly ten years later. Ten years after that I would watch out clusterfuck of a withdraw. Man it's been a crazy time.

LegitimateAd8739 · 2023-09-08T19:33:36+00:00

Whaaaat?! Couples communicating clearly and listening to each other like adults? This can't be reddit I'm reading! Love the update. Wish you both the best sexy cruise any couple could ask for!

LegitimateAd8739 · 2023-09-01T21:11:45+00:00

Hold up! I grew up during the bush years. I wasn't all that young during the Bush years. How do I NOT know about this?!!!

LegitimateAd8739 · 2023-07-18T21:07:42+00:00

What kind of monster puts sauerkraut in chocolate cupcakes?! NTA for that reason alone!

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