George Waters

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• I too like to do a lot of repairs to save money. I even finished the basement at my prior house some 30 years ago. The degree of difficulty and complexity helps me to decide when outside help is needed. I know defining this is different for each of us.  When taking on a project, I think of this line from Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry in Magnum Force, “A man’s got to know his limitations.” P.S., I am an investment advisor and not in the trades. I just enjoy doing this kind of house work (within limits).

  Post: Frugality Has a Cost

  Link to comment from November 7, 2023

• As ‘mytimetotravel’ says, “Sounds like you have enough.” You could perhaps add to your second to last sentence the words “and knowing when you have enough.” I am sure many HumbleDollar readers have read John Bogle’s passage about “Enough.” For those that haven’t. it goes like this: Joseph Heller, an important and funny writer now dead, and I (Kurt Vonnegut) were at a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island. I said, “Joe, how does it make you feel to know that our host only yesterday may have made more money than your novel ‘Catch -22’ has earned in its entire history?” And Joe said, “I’ve got something he will never have.” And I said, “What on earth could that be, Joe?” And Joe said, “The knowledge that I’ve got enough.”

  Post: And Yet I Did Okay

  Link to comment from July 13, 2023

• There is also the FairTax (FairTax.org). It would eliminate so many problems for taxpayers. This one is also simple but as you point out not good for the lobbyists and so many others.

  Post: What Gets Taxed

  Link to comment from January 24, 2023