Winston Smith

Comments:

• Linda, Having downsized last year I’ll admit to being a bit envious of your constant culling of your stuff. On the other hand, we were able to live in our ‘forever’ home for over 4 decades. I can’t do stairs any more so it was time. The process of going through all the junk … uh … treasures ;-} … we accumulated was difficult. Especially so since our kids wanted so little of all that … important … stuff.

  Post: Turned Upside Down

  Link to comment from October 5, 2024

• Richard, Thanks for describing your strategy! This post gets bookmarked for when we have to start taking our RMDs.

  Post: Our annual give it away meeting 🤑

  Link to comment from October 5, 2024

• Dana, Thank you for posting this wonderful story of your money journey! It’s post like these that make HD one of the websites I try to visit every day. They say ‘misery loves company’. Kind of nasty I suppose but it’s nice to know others have made less than optimal financial choices too. Ours would require writing a book likely longer than “War and Peace”.

  Post: Misplaced Trust

  Link to comment from October 4, 2024

• Sanjib, That was a great story! And you are a great Son too!

  Post: Luxury on Rails

  Link to comment from October 2, 2024

• Majorie, excellent and thoughtful analysis! I have just one vote out of millions when it comes to the Presidency. I try to vote the way I think is best for America. In local elections I have one vote out of thousands, or even, sometimes, just a few hundred. I try to vote the way I think is best for my community.

  Post: Stay Informed by Marjorie Kondrack

  Link to comment from October 1, 2024

• Taking the children to visit colleges is kind of a ‘right of passage’ for us old boomers. Did any of your kids refuse to even get out of the car a college? Did any of your kids attend your Alma Mater? It’s where their mother and I met. Not a one of our kids went there even though they all dutifully visited and applied there. (Interestingly, to us at least, a couple of our kids spouses DID go there.)

  Post: Ranking Colleges

  Link to comment from September 30, 2024

• I grew up in Northeastern Illinois. (I still live here.) If you have ever driven on the Illinois Tollway system you might notice, at various points, a special sort of bridge across the highway. These are called Oasis’s (spelling???). They have gas stations and rest rooms and various restaurants. As a small child the one near where we lived had a “white tablecloth” Howard Johnson. As a special treat Mom & Dad would load all us kids into the station wagon to take us there. (I’m STILL the spoiled brat youngest) and I would have to sit on one of my older brothers’ laps. We kids would dress up in our Sunday Best. That, or McD’s or Dairy Queen were our rewards for being ‘well behaved’.

  Post: Food for Thought by Ken Cutler

  Link to comment from September 30, 2024

• All my ‘motorhead’ friends suggested we buy Subarus. We paid cash for it 4 years ago and get it serviced regularly at the dealer. It gets acceptable, not great, gas mileage. But it does have all the driving assistance features geezer/boomers like us appreciate and need. The only drawback has been the Subaru brand batteries that only seem to last for a couple of years. We’re on our third one.

  Post: Conflicting and Confusing Economic Indicators

  Link to comment from September 27, 2024

• I wonder what both college costs and health care costs might have in common?

  Post: How did it all work for us? Why not now?

  Link to comment from September 26, 2024

• Ed, Thanks so much for this warm and loving post. You two have raised a wonderful daughter! You have no need to worry about her.

  Post: Savoring the Moments

  Link to comment from September 25, 2024