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Re: 6 ways to retire poor

Steve (Brip Blap) — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:30:17 -0000

Who *doesn't* love TPS cover sheets?

(more sarcasm...)

:)

Re: 6 ways to retire poor

Shawn@MoneyBrick — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:22:48 -0000

Hahaha... I LOVE preparing TPS cover sheets!

This is great... sarcasm is great!

Re: 6 ways to retire poor

GT — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:47:31 -0000

Great post - love the "Abuse your Health." Health and healthcare are going to be the huge x-factors as the population gets older.

Re: 6 ways to retire poor

FIRE Finance — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 12:17:19 -0000

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Re: 6 ways to retire poor

bripblap — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 21:52:25 -0000

@plonkee: I'll probably wait until I have some incredibly expensive-to-treat conditions - would that be OK? :)

Re: 6 ways to retire poor

bubelah — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:36:28 -0000

One of my co-workers cashed out his 401(K) to fund his son's wedding (St.Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth Ave in NYC).....And, get that, the son is quite rich himself, BUT as was explained to me by my elderly co-worker when he saw my look ("Are you Crazy?") that is customary in their culture (Egyptian). I said to him: "You always brag how successful your son. How come he didn't refuse your money to pay for the wedding?" He answered that if he ever needs help (financially) when he is retired his son will take care of him and his wife. Ok, good for him then.

Re: 6 ways to retire poor

plonkee — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:50:42 -0000

Of course what I really want you to do is to abuse your health and then move to the UK and use our universal free health care. That'll make my day.

Re: 6 ways to retire poor

Danny at Money Socket — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 23:26:23 -0000

I got a kick out of this post, especially the day trading part. Its funny that the real estate mentality for a lot of home owners here in the San Francisco bay area is just like that. Owners have gotten lucky all this time so they think its going to keep going up to infinity.

Re: 6 ways to retire poor

bripblap — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 22:29:32 -0000

I guess if you had no other resources to fall back on then you could use your retirement accounts, but I doubt that's usually the case. I see a lot of my colleagues using their retirement savings to help fund their down payment on a house. If someone needed it to pay for expensive life-saving surgery I wouldn't fault them...

Re: 6 ways to retire poor

GoldnSilver — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:42:04 -0000

Funny :)

I understand #2. I personally wouldn't w/d from my retirement accounts prematurely. However, is there ever an instance where it'd be legitimate to early w/d? ex. illness; to fund a medical cost. I feel bad for people who have to do this.