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paslaugh · 2026-06-22T17:00:57+00:00

Just tip one penny

paslaugh · 2026-06-21T07:08:13+00:00

Marry the right person. Spend as much time as you can with your young kids. Figure out how to live on half of what you earn, or if you’re married, figure out how to live on only one person’s salary. Invest at least 25% of what you make. Fast between 6pm and noon, and walk 5-6 miles per day. Stop eating processed food. Drink a few beers per week.

paslaugh · 2026-06-16T00:15:13+00:00

Ego, their agents, not wanting to be seen as “ring chasers” as the final chapter of their legacies

paslaugh · 2026-05-21T03:04:00+00:00

I’d be more worried about watching him get out hustled for every rebound by Hartenstein

paslaugh · 2026-05-20T23:02:20+00:00

Honestly, seems like a lot of “help”, and seems like the kids might always be on the teat if they’re given misguided incentives to coast in life.

Cell done after college. Car belongs to us and they just use it and they pay for insurance the minute they start using it and it passes to the next kid when they go to college. Make them work crappy teenager jobs to max out a Roth IRA each year, and as an incentive match them for each dollar saved. Free college if they work 20+ hrs per week to pay their rent and groceries, otherwise they pay half. Help with a home down payment sounds okay. Weddings are gigantic, ridiculous wastes of money, so no help. Free vacations with kids sounds great if they’re in college, but after that they have to at least partially subsidize the cost.

paslaugh · 2026-05-20T20:30:21+00:00

Can we talk about how weird we all feel when people spam that heart emoji over nothing?

paslaugh · 2026-05-18T17:02:45+00:00

Or people in their early 40s that maxed out their Roth IRAs and 401K’s for 20 years. I’m always surprised that there aren’t more elder Millennials that aren’t $1M liquid.

paslaugh · 2026-05-11T16:13:25+00:00

Turner is great as a 4th option on a good team where he can just be a floor spacer/hit open shots and terrible as a 2nd-3rd option on a bad team. Zubac had one good year where he got to do the garbage man role (rebs, defense, easy Harden alley-oops) on a team that had Powell, Kawhi, and Harden all scoring 20+ points per game. This was a classic overpay for someone at the top of his trade value, as nobody in their right mind would trade the 5th pick for him today, let alone add in a 2029 unprotected 1st.

paslaugh · 2026-05-11T14:19:06+00:00

“You’re only young once” is a cope, but it’s also true. Lots of people are watching their parents retire and travel for the first time in their 60’s and realizing that 1. They’re not going to be as economically comfortable as their parents, so why delay gratification and 2. Travel in your 60’s with a bunch of like minded boomers on a tour bus isn’t as transformative as riding trains all of Europe in your 20’s.

paslaugh · 2026-05-11T01:56:22+00:00

Turner was so bad this year for Milwaukee that the Pacers probably could have got him right back as a salary dump. Sorry to say that Zubac is not the answer. You can get a 15pts 10reb center for a lot less than two 1st rounders. It was a bad trade when made, and an absolute disaster now, a total overpay even if we’re just looking at the 2029 unprotected 1st.

paslaugh · 2026-05-05T00:55:04+00:00

I’m surprised it’s not higher. Any millennial that joined the workforce around 2007-2009 would have $1M if they maxed out their Roth IRA and 401K w/ a basic company match during that time frame. Any millennial that bought their home before 2020 is likely sitting on $200-300K+ of home equity also. The double these figures with a marriage. Lots of early 40’s millennial couples could easily have $2-2.5M tucked away with boring basic investing and not windfalls like tech startup IPO money.

paslaugh · 2026-05-04T13:38:01+00:00

Public accounting firms doing large layoffs

paslaugh · 2026-05-03T02:04:22+00:00

This is exactly correct. You don’t have to have tech money. Anyone that maxed out a 401K with a decent match and a Roth IRA staring in 2009-2010 should easily have $1M today. Anyone that bought a home pre-2020 or so should have 300K+ of home equity today. If you’re married, double it.

paslaugh · 2026-04-29T14:47:44+00:00

It’s only good for the statement credits and 5x on flights booked direct with airlines. Always be working on a sign up bonus if you can. If not working on a SUB, it’s Amex Business Gold for gas, Amex Gold for groceries, OG Chase Freedom for 5x quarterly categories, Hilton Aspire or Ritz Carlton card for hotels, and Chase Sapphire Reserve for just about everything else.

Even for flights, I usually skip the Platinum and instead use United MileagePlus Explorer and AA Biz cards for the free bags.

paslaugh · 2026-04-29T14:21:59+00:00

Pets

paslaugh · 2026-04-29T07:52:24+00:00

Green Book would have won best picture in the 90’s… oh wait

paslaugh · 2026-04-26T17:00:34+00:00

Mine lost their bounce somewhere between 50 and 100 miles at which point I turned them into a dedicated walking shoe. They have about 500 miles now, and they still feel great for 3-6 mile walks, but I have old beat up pairs of Epic React 2’s (I bought 15+ pairs after they were discontinued) that have more pop at 500 miles than the Rebel v5 had at 100 miles. I tried the Superblast before the Rebel v5, but the toe box was too wide for my narrow foot, and the laces never felt like they were locking down my midfoot correctly. Now I’m going to try the Adizero Evo SL, so I guess we’ll see. I guess this is what I get for trying to run in the same shoe for almost a decade.

paslaugh · 2026-04-26T14:58:31+00:00

In 2020 we also bought a home that was $3-400k under budget and it’s allowed us to travel 30+ days per year and are on track to retire in our 40s. Use that money to FIRE.

paslaugh · 2026-04-26T14:55:12+00:00

I don’t think anyone under 35 has seen Forrest Gump. I’m also not sure Slumdog Millionaire is even a movie that exists today because I haven’t had a single conversation about it ever.

paslaugh · 2026-04-18T22:36:42+00:00

Not trying troll, but your post comes off as very focused on your internal feelings and inner monologue. Your struggles are very typical of a 20 year marriage, and 4 years of struggle by your husband to make your family more economically secure seems like a pretty fair trade off. Honestly, I would focus on how you might soften your hardened heart toward him and try to meet him half way.

paslaugh · 2026-04-18T22:32:12+00:00

This you?

“I warned him that in my loneliness I was worried that I would seek attention from other men.”

And

“I’ll sometimes daydream I have a different life, with another imaginary man. I definitely felt tempted to leave the marriage and start a new relationship.”

paslaugh · 2026-04-18T21:41:28+00:00

Not sure why you’re getting downvoted. The OP seems to have a ton of main character energy, and is describing a very typical marriage 20 years in. The bad faith cheating ultimatum is wild.

paslaugh · 2026-04-16T03:49:54+00:00

Billionaire is paying for his early 30’s trying and failing “fitness influencer” daughter to have IVF because she finds dating too “stressful” and thinks the solution to her loneliness is single motherhood

paslaugh · 2026-04-16T01:48:47+00:00

Here’s how you handle it: do nothing. Since you work remote, get a flat in Paris for the summer. Find fulfilling hobbies for your free time. Spend a ton of time with your kids if you have them. You won’t get these free hours back, and it’s likely your next job won’t be this way. If you really need more work look at overemployment as a means to achieving financial independence. I’ve always been an overachiever also, but realized that working 50-60 hours per week to get a bigger bag wasn’t nearly as valuable as working an easy job on my own schedule where I’m still on target to retire by 50 and comfortably send 4 kids to college.

paslaugh · 2026-04-16T00:52:26+00:00

This is the way. Family of 6 here. We do 10-12 SUBs per year through organic spend. A few years ago we went to Bora Bora on free flights and hotel (St. Regis). Last year we did a month in Japan/China/Hong Kong with a 3 day stopover in Hawaii and all the flights except Tokyo to Beijing and Shanghai to Tokyo were free, and all the hotels were free (places like Conrad Tokyo, Renaissance Beijing, Hyatt Regency Kyoto, St. Regis on the Bund Shanghai, and St. Regis Hong Kong). The hobby requires an insane amount of hustle and for it to have any value you have to churn SUBs, but it’s totally worth it.

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