2020 Check-in, check-up, and scenarios

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To be distrustful of everyone/everything is a bit dystopian. Rather, trust is earned, and a high level of trust or assumption of trust shouldn't be afforded...

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There's an emerging discussion about how the US Stock Market is not the US Economy--more people are tuning into this idea. One, because it's true. The...

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I have a 1 foot tall stack of papers that came out of our filing cabinet during the annual purge.
That's always a sore spot, though. The stack sits...

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Sad for the kids that this is probably how they view vacations and big purchases being possible. IMO there shouldn't be a tax refund if estimating taxes...

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I haven't read any complaints about pay; in fact there was a line above that it was about $5-$7 more per hour than average for this type of work AND you...

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If time and income are still on your side, the first question to ask is what do you want retirement to look like? Then come up with a figure that supports...

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When we lived in Seattle, my commute was 42 miles one way, or about an hour. Hour and a half on bad days. The commute really started to wear thin as it...

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The amount of salt they use here in the midwest is shocking. I get that people need safe roads because they can't slow down, but what an environmental...

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They've literally wiped out dealer inventories of fleet model Sprinter and Ram vans as they solve the last mile problem buying their own fleet and employing...

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It's tough NOT to shop on Amazon if the focus is on the bottom line. For a lot of specific things, they are cheaper. I'm conflicted on the corporate culture,...

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Yup. Get the fire started while you're still warm. Then, if a much better offer rolls in but you'd stay at your current job if they matched it (or beat...

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I appreciate the replies. Seems a few have also walked in the shoes of a "trailing spouse" before, or have been the spouse with the dominant...

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I assume my parents did well with saving and planning as they've been retired for a little over 10 years and according to my father, they have no worries...

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We've only ever factored our home into retirement planning as a paid-off place to live until we die and/or need care. Not having a mortgage in the later...

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Wow a lot has changed since I was here last. In short, DH made stratospheric gains in income and job titles whereas I've mostly treaded water and have...

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I dropped off here a while back to go figure out life. Still working on it...lol But a lot has changed. Do people do "how am I doing with finance"...