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RE: When I was that age, I was flat on my ass broke.

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In Reply to: RE: When I was that age, I was flat on my ass broke. posted by srdavis2000 on July 17, 2021 at 09:02:07

I'm with you on the coffee and inexpensive cars. I get a perfectly good cup of coffee at McDonald's for a buck. A block away in Safeway people are paying like $4.50 for a cup of coffee. People won't delay gratification and are not educated about what these unnecessary extravagances can and do add up to 30 years later. Driving a used Toyota instead of a BMW and getting a regular coffee instead of a latte is not great hardship IMO. I wonder how many people who called me cheap are old with no money right about now. Let's see. Say they saved $10 a week on coffee for 30 years. That's 5.20 x 30= 15,600. Put in every month is a stock ETF it it could be 75-120K. And that's just coffee...
"The loaded carry does more to expand athletic qualities than any other single thing I've attempted in my career as a coach and athlete. And I do not say that lightly." Dan John

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RE: When I was that age, I was flat on my ass broke. - srdavis2000 10:34:55 07/17/21 (1)
In college I had a girlfriend with a wealthy uncle. He had worked his way up the ranks to a well paying job, but lived very modestly. I'll never forget a story he told me once. He said "when break time came, and everybody was buying Cokes and candy, I just got a drink of water and went on."
- RE: When I was that age, I was flat on my ass broke. - tweaker456 10:40:03 07/17/21 (0)
  Then there's Steve Forbes who inherited as much as 440 million dollars and was shocked a while back that McDonald's had to pay a whole $8 an hour.
  
  "The loaded carry does more to expand athletic qualities than any other single thing I've attempted in my career as a coach and athlete. And I do not say that lightly." Dan John

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