The Home Improvement Thread

Wait Celeste is a pothead?

It’s all about balance.. you want to make money but not if you live a miserable existence… when you’re dead you’re not going to worry about such things

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Guys let’s not turn this into a dick size contest cause mine is the biggest

Everyone knows the rank of possible topics for bragging goes*:

[li]Vaccination Status[/li]
[li]Did you get a stimulus check[/li]
[li]Have you seen Aphex Twin[/li]
[li]Dick length (ladies excluded)[/li]
[li]APR on your home loan[/li]
[li]Post count[/li]
[li]Have you sexually assaulted a massage therapist and gotten off pretty much scot free?[/li]

^{* - As of 1/12/2021}

Sheesh

I got 4 and 6 covered but otherwise

Just wrote:
It’s all about balance.. you want to make money but not if you live a miserable existence… when you’re dead you’re not going to worry about such things

That's a good philosophy, i'm down with that.

totally wrote:
who lives in a home for 30 years or keeps a loan that long…

i will, assuming i live 30 years.  i ain't moving again - couldn't take the trauma, and i can't imagine finding a nicer house in a nicer place than this one.

but agreed, i'm part a very small minority.  oh wait, can we add willingness to move to our dick-size countdown/showdown?

My wife took massage therapy classes but never finished. And wants me to be "the man.". Does that count for #7?

sweetcell wrote:
oh wait, can we add willingness to move to our dick-size countdown/showdown?

Is a willingness to move something to brag about or an unwillingness to move? I'm not sure there's a consensus on this one.

I think what you're trying to encapsulate is a general, authentic contentment with your life and let me tell you, the entire existence of online forums and bragging on them is to cover up deep-seeded unhappiness so honestly, this just seems against the entire spirit of this whole thing.

Just wrote:
Wait Celeste is a pothead?

I know…this is the first I've heard that
I'm liking her more and more

Space wrote:
My wife took massage therapy classes but never finished. And wants me to be "the man.". Does that count for #7?

Similar to Sweet's suggestion: I have no idea if what you're saying is supposed to be a good thing or not.

totally wrote:
I'm liking her more and more

Way to out yourself as definitely not OG 930 Forum.

totally wrote:

Just wrote:
Wait Celeste is a pothead?

I know…this is the first I've heard that
I'm liking her more and more

I definitely have this in my Ford Family File or FFF for short.

sweetcell wrote:

totally wrote:
who lives in a home for 30 years or keeps a loan that long…

i will, assuming i live 30 years.  i ain't moving again - couldn't take the trauma, and i can't imagine finding a nicer house in a nicer place than this one.

but agreed, i'm part a very small minority.  oh wait, can we add willingness to move to our dick-size countdown/showdown?

If i had your house and location, I'd stay in it 30 years too.

We bought when i was 37, and don't intend on selling until around 30 years.

We lived in at least seven different locations by the time i was 18. It sucked.

Julian, wrote:

totally wrote:
I'm liking her more and more

Way to out yourself as definitely not OG 930 Forum.

yeah…started around 2011….so there is a whole decade you people have on me
can't believe tenure on the forum isn't a bragging point
walkie could win for the most times quitting (and deleting his account) and coming back

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Maybe you actually have an idea on an investment that would make you way more money than the savings that will accrue from plowing more of your disposable income into your mortgage

Apparently bitcoin can be very lucrative, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/12/technology/bitcoin-passwords-wallets-fortunes.html">as long as you don't forget your password.</a>

Julian, wrote:
bragging (…) to cover up deep-seeded unhappiness

AKA the raison d'etre of dick-measuring contests?

excontradiction wrote:

Just wrote:
Maybe you actually have an idea on an investment that would make you way more money than the savings that will accrue from plowing more of your disposable income into your mortgage

Apparently bitcoin can be very lucrative, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/12/technology/bitcoin-passwords-wallets-fortunes.html&quot;&gt;as long as you don&#039;t forget your password.&lt;/a&gt;

yikes…$220 million
There has to be a way to get around that Ironkey

this is a scary fact too
around 20 percent — currently worth around $140 billion — appear to be in lost or otherwise stranded wallets,

I knew a guy who mined bitcoin back in the day
he had about $20k around 2011…and someone hacked his wallet and stole it all
would be worth millions today

sweetcell wrote:

Julian, wrote:
bragging (…) to cover up deep-seeded unhappiness

AKA the raison d&#039;etre of dick-measuring contests?

Exactly.

Anyone else notice?

https://www.zillow.com/mortgage-learning/trends/mortgage-rate-update/

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=NUh

I couldn't imagine what it would have been like to get a loan in 1983
30 yr fixed at 17.5%!
and that was the avg, if you had bad credit it was surely close to 20%

My FIL still brags about how they got all these 18% CD's then (again, low mortgage rates really hurt peoples ability to save)