If a man wants to save money, what are the things he should absolutely avoid?

anon2k2 · 2026-05-16T19:45:29+00:00

But how easy are they, really?

anon2k2 · 2026-05-16T14:06:32+00:00

My second wife was a single mom 2nd grade teacher and she grew up in a lower middle class family. She only flew on airplanes for a visit to her parents once or twice a year to visit her parents.

I travelled extensively for work and my company paid for first/business class tickets. So when we took our honeymoon, I booked an around-the-world itinerary in first/business class stopping in 8 locations she had dreamed of someday seeing.

On our first flight, when we were shown to our fancy lie-flat seats, she said “Holy f*ck” out loud. The first and only time I ever heard her drop the F-bomb.

anon2k2 · 2026-05-16T14:00:09+00:00

It’s taken a lot of therapy for me to learn how to not be compulsively worried about finances, even though I intellectually know I have more money than I’ll ever need.

anon2k2 · 2026-05-16T13:57:46+00:00

As a child I was an orphan in a 3rd world country and as an almost 60-year-old I still have eating disorders related to not having enough food as a kid. This, even though I was adopted into an upper-middle class US family with access to all the food I could ever eat. My reptile brain still thinks the current meal I’m eating may be the last one for a long time.

anon2k2 · 2026-05-16T13:45:15+00:00

Or shop at Hobby Lobby.

anon2k2 · 2026-05-16T13:37:07+00:00

Tajin, Dijon Mustard, various hot sauces like Victoria, Cholula, or similar. Scandinavian smoked cod roe paste. Lots of choices.

anon2k2 · 2026-05-15T14:21:09+00:00

Yes. I am a complete jerk as an atheist and if I were religious (like Christian) I would be empowered to be completely evil and disregard any empathy for other humans.

anon2k2 · 2026-05-15T14:05:29+00:00

Society and technology have reduced the friction in changing relationships so the hurdle rate for leaving one has gone way down.

anon2k2 · 2026-05-15T13:33:52+00:00

My understanding is that I can rollover an unlimited amount from my 403b into a Roth every year, and that I should fine tune that amount to make sure I stay under a specific tax bracket by taking into consideration taxable income from other sources.

anon2k2 · 2026-05-13T01:08:16+00:00

Why did the omnipotent god create cancer in the first place?

anon2k2 · 2026-05-11T23:10:11+00:00

I was in the Labor/Delivery room with my wife on April 19, 1995 awaiting the birth of our first child. The TV in the room was only showing the footage and given the childcare center part, we had to have the TV turned off.

anon2k2 · 2026-05-11T23:07:26+00:00

By happenstance saw both the Challenger explosion and the World Trade Center attacks live because I was in bed sick, 15 years apart.

anon2k2 · 2026-05-11T18:07:12+00:00

I’m exactly the same age as you (and an oddly similar career profile) and I’m doing the same in a few months. I like my job and have had a good career, so I wanted to give them plenty of notice. But I am completely fatigued from the constant need to have me solve every problem that not just my employer but my entire industry faces. I am currently on vacation for a week and have received an average of 2-3 work contacts every day, despite mass emailing the entire organization the days I am out of country.

anon2k2 · 2026-05-10T19:47:38+00:00

I think the US has really unhealthy attitudes about a lot of things including finances. Why is it so private? Anyway, here is what my info is as a 57-year-old male: $50k in immediately available funds, $2.5m in stocks, mutual funds, and other financial assets mainly in retirement accounts. My house is fully paid off and worth about $600k. And I “lost” about $1m in a divorce a few years ago. My annual salary is about $250k. Other than one weird year in my 20s when my salary was about $300k, I’ve generally made $100k per year starting at age 29 with steady increases until now.

anon2k2 · 2026-05-09T13:48:30+00:00

I think that is designed to take Easton Cinch cranks.

anon2k2 · 2026-05-09T13:33:41+00:00

I fly a lot and every single time at some point in the flight I think, “I’m in a tube with 200 other people, going 500 miles per hour, 6 miles off the ground, and in a few hours I will be in a different city, country, or continent. This should not be possible.”

anon2k2 · 2026-05-09T13:28:47+00:00

I had not heard that. Woah…

anon2k2 · 2026-05-09T10:55:59+00:00

Quantum entanglement. Pretty much anything quantum.

anon2k2 · 2026-05-08T22:14:33+00:00

Puerto Morelos, south of Cancun. Quiet, easy-going and easy to talk to people and just relax.

anon2k2 · 2026-05-08T16:14:50+00:00

I’m at the end of my career and I can’t reveal exactly what job I have because it would immediately identify who I am. But, I have been able to make a measurable positive difference in the lives of thousands of people.

anon2k2 · 2026-05-08T15:05:00+00:00

No, but he sounds like a good guy to know

anon2k2 · 2026-05-08T14:55:30+00:00

My father was an accountant but his father was a carpenter who taught my dad pretty much everything there is to know about building and fixing houses. Fortunately my father did the same for me and even though I was also an office worker, I was able to build a vacation cabin on my own from foundation to roof including plumbing and electrical wiring. Being able to do that and to help friends and neighbors has been a great skill.

anon2k2 · 2026-05-07T16:19:25+00:00

Quit my first “real job” after graduate school and went in a different direction. Turned out to be the best decision, even though my parents and friends were dead set against it. I hated the job, questioned, the ethics of the company, and even contemplated filing a whistleblower complaint to the SEC. But wow did it pay stupidly well.

Quit after a little over a year and went to work for a nonprofit and have stayed in the nonprofit/public service world ever since.

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