DrEvilmonki
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Originally posted by dauber22
As do I! I understood perfectly when they each tired of me and tossed me out :duh:
We ALL understand that!
Women and money is it just me????
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We ALL understand that!
Duende
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You missed my point, it\'s not that I was sale-shopping, it\'s that I chose to blow my hard-earned dough on paints and minis over clothes, shoes or silly handbags.
Currently, my coworkers (females) are going nuts over these Longaberger baskets. Sure, they\'re handwoven and nice, but still.... oodles of $$ for a simple basket! A basket!! Whoopee. If I\'m gonna spend that much, I\'d rather put it into some nice Andrea figures or something.
Duende
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Originally posted by Evil Dave
Or, just a possibility here, you could send the extra money to pay off the car loan, credit card or house note faster.
I owe no money on my car, my credit cards are nearly paid off already, and I rent.
I\'m talking about my \"fun money\", what I do with my extra AFTER the bills are paid, whether I save it or spend it and what I spend it on. And rather go for a top that 10% off, I go for minis that are 30% off and go topless instead.
Duende
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And when most mortgages run 30 years, it seems like forever anyways. With renting, if something needs fixed, I call my landlord. If I want to move, I just give 30 days notice, pack and go. I don\'t have to worry about selling, it\'s up to him to find new tenants. The only bad thing would be annoying neighbors, but really you can get those anywhere, owning or renting.
No Such Agency
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... and frankly, renting is a lot of people\'s only option. I don\'t LIKE paying hundreds of dollars a month and getting no equity in return, but I don\'t know how long I will live in this city, and I have nowhere near the $ for a down-payment anyway. Rental housing is just... life. Sub-optimal, but you do what you have to do to get by.
Oh, yeah I just paid my property taxes.
3 Acres on a State Highway. Valued at $180,000 (Mind you the average Acre goes for $30,000)
$32.00 property tax.
But then again, a house that you can build for $100,000 here would go from anywhere from half a million to a million in San Diego.
As for annoying Neighbors, not for me. My nearest neighbor is my mom, who is about 600 yards away. I also own the land to the side of me which gives me an acre buffer from any others who might move here.
demonherald
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mmmmmmm...topless now there\'s an idea.
well I lost the argument in that she turned with the top and the damn shoes to go with it...
Also won the argument in the bloke way of not letting it turn into an argument after the fact.
If it isn\'t paid off in full though there maybe another argument...
Vike your right in that credit cards can be pretty essential to get a credit rating.
I used to pay for everything cash in the firm principle if I couldn\'t afford it I wouldn\'t have it... Always wonder why my credit sucked until it was recommended I get a Card and keep the balance paid as well as getting a couple of things on buy now pay in installments making sure I pay it just to get recognised as viable for credit...
pain in the ass and took a while despite never having an overdraft owning my own place I still had to go through the owing people money to get credit...can see how people can gettrapped.
our lass (the fiancee sorry yorkshire lingo thingy) has a ttally different view often saying well theres X £\'s left on the credit card where my view is the money ain\'t mine I basically have a limit that acts as my permission to borrow somebody elses money...
(I don\'t think women are evil cheeky or Rude .....At least not when you first meet them...)
well I lost the argument in that she turned with the top and the damn shoes to go with it...
Also won the argument in the bloke way of not letting it turn into an argument after the fact.
If it isn\'t paid off in full though there maybe another argument...
Vike your right in that credit cards can be pretty essential to get a credit rating.
I used to pay for everything cash in the firm principle if I couldn\'t afford it I wouldn\'t have it... Always wonder why my credit sucked until it was recommended I get a Card and keep the balance paid as well as getting a couple of things on buy now pay in installments making sure I pay it just to get recognised as viable for credit...
pain in the ass and took a while despite never having an overdraft owning my own place I still had to go through the owing people money to get credit...can see how people can gettrapped.
our lass (the fiancee sorry yorkshire lingo thingy) has a ttally different view often saying well theres X £\'s left on the credit card where my view is the money ain\'t mine I basically have a limit that acts as my permission to borrow somebody elses money...
(I don\'t think women are evil cheeky or Rude .....At least not when you first meet them...)
james sequeira
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Ive know some women who can just go out and put everything on a card and end up having a strict period to pay it all back and more, I cant do that, unless I actually have the money its a no go. I always make sure I have at least £700 to fall back upon.
Originally posted by supervike
No sh~t!!! I think I\'d pay that much if I owned a postage stamp sized plot here! And I\'m nopt even NEAR the ROtten APple! FOrget it if you own property THERE
As for using credit cards to establish credit, that\'s all quite true. SInce the divorce, I own essentially nothing in my name and am only on one credit card but the account isn\'t in my name. I applied for a credit card (one of the gajillion offers I get in the mail) and they told me they COULDN\"T PROVE I EVEN EXISTED
vincegamer
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Well there\'s plenty available \"on my credit card\" but much less available in my bank account.
The key is to ignore your credit card limit and use the card as though it\'s a check book from your bank account (and don\'t write any bad checks).
I actually put damn near everything on my credit card. I have a rewards plan that matches 1% of everything I put on the card, and 6% if it\'s telecommunications (though not having cable or a long-distance carrier or a mobile plan I don\'t get much from that).
So if I put $100 on my credit card, the company gives me $1 - but not to me. They pay it to my mortgage company.
So, by using the credit card, I\'m paying off the house a little bit faster.
The key is to ignore your credit card limit and use the card as though it\'s a check book from your bank account (and don\'t write any bad checks).
I actually put damn near everything on my credit card. I have a rewards plan that matches 1% of everything I put on the card, and 6% if it\'s telecommunications (though not having cable or a long-distance carrier or a mobile plan I don\'t get much from that).
So if I put $100 on my credit card, the company gives me $1 - but not to me. They pay it to my mortgage company.
So, by using the credit card, I\'m paying off the house a little bit faster.
No Such Agency
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Well, as long as you\'re not using it to buy \"salad shooters\" off the tv lol
vincegamer
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Why would I need to shoot a salad? They don\'t run very fast so you can just catch them in a net.
wiccanpony
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San Diegohouse built in mid 1950\'s three bedrooms bath & half......$14,000 (30 year loan), add three more bedrooms and two full baths later..... over half a million. and we own the puppy, pink slip framed and everything.:beer::beer::beer:
Shawn R. L.
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Credit cards...............spawn of the devil.
philologus
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Salad Shooter=Vegetarian with diarrhea
Dammekkos2
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Hah, that sounds about right. To be honest though (and I haven\'t read the other posts sorry, I am writing this drunk and on the hoof), blokes probably do the same thing. Only they don\'t spend it on clothes, and they don\'t wait until the sales either. Where are you from DH? You sound possibly North-East, which I didn\'t notice before (if you are). There are a few of us here, some new youngsters but some oldies have dissappeared (Klute?).
/16.5 sounds shite though. I don\'t use that service, not even month to month.
