In what aspect of life are you best a cheapskate (aka summoning your inner Dave Ramsey thread)?

creepycoug said:

I would say, yeah, I have right-leaning tendencies. I am skeptical of solving all problems with government and tax increases, I think the idea to forgive student loans is incredibly misguided and tend to default to free-market economics with as few externalities and interference as possible.

I also think regulation has its place, I have to pay some amount of my wealth to fund some social programs that don't benefit me, and have sympathetic views on some traditionally "liberal" ideas.

Today, I think they call me a RINO or an establishment Republican, who are as reviled by the populist movement as a card-carrying communist.

These are interesting times we live in.

creepycoug said:

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...

Liquor should be the good stuff. Also, TV sets. We watch enough of it that I don't compromise on that.

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.

EwaDawg said:

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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.

Creep. Can you please keep the vitriol at the tug?

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.

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.

Creep is a pragmatic, center-right dude.

Okay, some say that makes him something other than a centrist with right leaning tendencies but potato/potatoe. . .

Thanks

How narrow is your definition of centrist?

Everyone claims to be. Very few are. In other words, I am and the creep isn't.

HTH