In what aspect of life are you best a cheapskate (aka summoning your inner Dave Ramsey thread)?
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F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left...
That's a pretty good proxy. People like me are wary of revolutions and mobs of all kinds. I'm like the market: we prefer no surprises and business as usual to the extent possible. We also like slow change.USMChawk said:
Creep is pretty centrist, all things considered. If he seems right to you that’s a good indicator of how left you are. I would place Creep at about Tip O’Neil, on the political spectrum.EwaDawg said:
Creep. Can you please keep the vitriol at the tug?creepycoug said:Great pole. All of the above minus one offspring, and that's a big one. Three girls. Very $$$$.
And in reality, while I like to drink, I've spent far less on booze in my lifetim than most of my contemporaries because of seeing alcoholism up close. It ain't pretty, and there are few things more annoying than a drunk. Even more annoying than liberals who lie, and who love to be lied to.
I will other wise interpret your refusal to mean:
- you are nowhere near being a centrist (as you have claimed);
- you like to be lied to by the right (which is more likely to happen than your example); or
- the promise of a politic free zone was (close my eyes) another lie by a conservative.
I am trying my best, except in the case where someone brings cross-over (from another) bored. -
Low monthly housing cost relative to net income
You're a Burkean conservative like me. You say you want a revolution? Not me. We? already had one and I'm good.creepycoug said:
That's a pretty good proxy. People like me are wary of revolutions and mobs of all kinds. I'm like the market: we prefer no surprises and business as usual to the extent possible. We also like slow change.USMChawk said:
Creep is pretty centrist, all things considered. If he seems right to you that’s a good indicator of how left you are. I would place Creep at about Tip O’Neil, on the political spectrum.EwaDawg said:
Creep. Can you please keep the vitriol at the tug?creepycoug said:Great pole. All of the above minus one offspring, and that's a big one. Three girls. Very $$$$.
And in reality, while I like to drink, I've spent far less on booze in my lifetim than most of my contemporaries because of seeing alcoholism up close. It ain't pretty, and there are few things more annoying than a drunk. Even more annoying than liberals who lie, and who love to be lied to.
I will other wise interpret your refusal to mean:
- you are nowhere near being a centrist (as you have claimed);
- you like to be lied to by the right (which is more likely to happen than your example); or
- the promise of a politic free zone was (close my eyes) another lie by a conservative.
I am trying my best, except in the case where someone brings cross-over (from another) bored. -
Low monthly housing cost relative to net income
We? have a fondness for sugar mamas too. But you're better at it than me.BearsWiin said:We have a fondness for expensive vacations
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No car payments / own a vehicle for 10 + yearsThe wife and I are a good mix...since we started dating (20 years ago), she has driven a BMW; 2 Passats; an A4: 2 A6s; and is now in a Benz (cash, no payments). I have put 230K on my Highlander, and intend to drive it until it croaks. I am a borderline minimalist, still wearing a pair of top siders I bought 20 years ago, and wearing clothes until they fall apart. We both paid off student loans years ago (mine for grad school). I shop like crazy for shit I want, at the lowest price possible, and buy it. She has her baubles, but is really reasonable about it (unlike some others in the past).
I think I got it from my parents, who both lived through the depression. My dad was tight as shit with money.
We save and budget like crazy for vacations, and tend to travel top-shelf. It helps that she has worked in the travel business for ever, so she knows how to do it right, buying plane tix and reservations months in advance.
The one line that I have drawn is: Nothing less than Copenhagen, nothing less than Jack Daniel's. We saved for Dawg tix for a few years, had them for about 10, and dumped them when it went to Pac at nite... -
No Husky, Duck, Cuog, etc season tickets and/or $500K donations to said universities
Thanks. Creep seems centrist as do many people. But I haven't paid a lot of attention to him lately (prior to the last couple of weeks). That quote didn't.USMChawk said:
Creep is pretty centrist, all things considered. If he seems right to you that’s a good indicator of how left you are. I would place Creep at about Tip O’Neil, on the political spectrum.EwaDawg said:
Creep. Can you please keep the vitriol at the tug?creepycoug said:Great pole. All of the above minus one offspring, and that's a big one. Three girls. Very $$$$.
And in reality, while I like to drink, I've spent far less on booze in my lifetim than most of my contemporaries because of seeing alcoholism up close. It ain't pretty, and there are few things more annoying than a drunk. Even more annoying than liberals who lie, and who love to be lied to.
I will other wise interpret your refusal to mean:
- you are nowhere near being a centrist (as you have claimed);
- you like to be lied to by the right (which is more likely to happen than your example); or
- the promise of a politic free zone was (close my eyes) another lie by a conservative.
I am trying my best, except in the case where someone brings cross-over (from another) bored.
Excluding the simple fact that today's republican party heavily supports trump - I am quite right leaning if you ask 7 of my 8 siblings. I am sure no one on HcH would classify me as such, though. I don't think trump represents true Republican values. Not even close.
The only reason I am on this board is believed Creep, was indeed, centrist. Thanks.
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F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left...The one that really rings true for me is clothes. I don't buy them at garage sales for Christ's sake (hi @Prestonluv you giant pussy) but I do wear them until one of the five women in my life (hi @Prestonluv you giant pussy) literally throw them away when I'm not looking.
I spent formative years in Aberdeen. Trust me: I know how to wear a pair a fucking jeans until they're ready to walk away on their own. The way I figured it was, the wife and the girls are going to spend a shit ton of money on that kind of thing, so I'll make up for it a little by not trying to be a GQ model, even though I have the looks for it.
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F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left...
Liquor should be the good stuff. Also, TV sets. We watch enough of it that I don't compromise on that.Fishpo31 said:The wife and I are a good mix...since we started dating (20 years ago), she has driven a BMW; 2 Passats; an A4: 2 A6s; and is now in a Benz (cash, no payments). I have put 230K on my Highlander, and intend to drive it until it croaks. I am a borderline minimalist, still wearing a pair of top siders I bought 20 years ago, and wearing clothes until they fall apart. We both paid off student loans years ago (mine for grad school). I shop like crazy for shit I want, at the lowest price possible, and buy it. She has her baubles, but is really reasonable about it (unlike some others in the past).
I think I got it from my parents, who both lived through the depression. My dad was tight as shit with money.
We save and budget like crazy for vacations, and tend to travel top-shelf. It helps that she has worked in the travel business for ever, so she knows how to do it right, buying plane tix and reservations months in advance.
The one line that I have drawn is: Nothing less than Copenhagen, nothing less than Jack Daniel's. We saved for Dawg tix for a few years, had them for about 10, and dumped them when it went to Pac at nite...
And, when we're not in the Vid, we like to go out to eat, and when we do, I don't mind paying so that I get what I want. Fuck it. Life is short.
I'm also just as happy grabbing a burger at the Hum Dinger on the way out to 101. -
No Husky, Duck, Cuog, etc season tickets and/or $500K donations to said universities
Okay, some say that makes him something other than a centrist with right leaning tendencies but potato/potatoe. . .YellowSnow said:
Creep is a pragmatic, center-right dude.USMChawk said:
Creep is pretty centrist, all things considered. If he seems right to you that’s a good indicator of how left you are. I would place Creep at about Tip O’Neil, on the political spectrum.EwaDawg said:
Creep. Can you please keep the vitriol at the tug?creepycoug said:Great pole. All of the above minus one offspring, and that's a big one. Three girls. Very $$$$.
And in reality, while I like to drink, I've spent far less on booze in my lifetim than most of my contemporaries because of seeing alcoholism up close. It ain't pretty, and there are few things more annoying than a drunk. Even more annoying than liberals who lie, and who love to be lied to.
I will other wise interpret your refusal to mean:
- you are nowhere near being a centrist (as you have claimed);
- you like to be lied to by the right (which is more likely to happen than your example); or
- the promise of a politic free zone was (close my eyes) another lie by a conservative.
I am trying my best, except in the case where someone brings cross-over (from another) bored.
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Low monthly housing cost relative to net income
How narrow is your definition of centrist?EwaDawg said:
Okay, some say that makes him something other than a centrist with right leaning tendencies but potato/potatoe. . .YellowSnow said:
Creep is a pragmatic, center-right dude.USMChawk said:
Creep is pretty centrist, all things considered. If he seems right to you that’s a good indicator of how left you are. I would place Creep at about Tip O’Neil, on the political spectrum.EwaDawg said:
Creep. Can you please keep the vitriol at the tug?creepycoug said:Great pole. All of the above minus one offspring, and that's a big one. Three girls. Very $$$$.
And in reality, while I like to drink, I've spent far less on booze in my lifetim than most of my contemporaries because of seeing alcoholism up close. It ain't pretty, and there are few things more annoying than a drunk. Even more annoying than liberals who lie, and who love to be lied to.
I will other wise interpret your refusal to mean:
- you are nowhere near being a centrist (as you have claimed);
- you like to be lied to by the right (which is more likely to happen than your example); or
- the promise of a politic free zone was (close my eyes) another lie by a conservative.
I am trying my best, except in the case where someone brings cross-over (from another) bored.
Thanks
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Does she allow you to tag along?BearsWiin said:We have a fondness for expensive vacations
