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- dMullins
Feels good to say I am finally out of public debt. Still have a nice chunk of student loans to pay off with next year's taxes, but I have expendable income for the first time ever in my life...
Hookers, new MBP, desk and new chair, here I come, baby... Of course I'm getting married next year...FML, back in debt?
It's a great feeling to not owe anyone shit anymore.
- goldieboy0
Congrats!
- ismith0
Well I think you solved the marriage problem already in your post with the hookers, sooo...
- tasty0
And you call yourself American.
- capn_ron0
I am jealous. I'm working on it myself. I'm thinking in less than two years I'll be debt free.
- No mortgage?babaganush
- not anymore. got rid of that thing for the time being until I'm ready for another one.capn_ron
- georgesIII0
Debt is so..... overrated.
YEAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH
- jfletcher0
Just don't have a wedding. I saved a ton of money there. No reason to pay for jerks just so they can eat crappy food and watch you walk around a church.
- an interesting perspectivebigtrickagain
- That's my perspective on marriage too. Balls to the big wedding, it's about the commitment of the couple, not a piss up.Wolfboy
- But how will every know you love each other if you don't spend 30 grand?tasty
- i agree w/wolf & jfletcher...elope, or have a small wedding. we had 8 people in ours, including us.sputnik2
- pillhead0
Feel good doesn't it, just a shame you have to get in debt to do anything in life, that or your bloody lucky and have rich parents.
- jfletcher0
@pillhead - do you think that's a world issue? or US issue? I don't know. Are other poeple in Europe always in debt like the US?
I don't understand how people retire in the US with the debt they have...
- Maybe because not everybody spends what they don't have? Believe it or not, not everybody is in debt.such
- plash0
^ you haven't read about whats going on in Greece..
- It's not the people in debt, it's the government.taxiguerrilla
- the people AND the gov'tsputnik2
- jfletcher0
@such - I can believe everyone is not in debt, I'm just wondering if it's just an american thing to have such a large portion of people in debt... sort of the like the KFC Double Down is a US thing.
@plash - but how are the individual people there? I have no clue.
- This Brit wishes the KFC Double Down wasn't an exclusively American thing, just so you know.detritus
- WeLoveNoise0
congrats muffins
although u stand to lose alot more once married ;)
- whatsup0
now you can worry about the U.S. American debt. Money owed to China for bail out funds, and more tax dollars to fund Isreal. And the more Billions to keep finding Osama Bin Laden since 9/11 who manages to escape sophisicated space satelites, and the entire American army forces armed to the bone.
- dMullins0
We're not very "traditional," so I think we're kind of lucky there. The wedding will be in Greece (planned previous to the collapse), and will be small. We'll be paying for our parents' tickets, and that's it. Anyone else who wants to come can come, anyone who doesn't, won't. Should be $6k or so for tickets, and the accommodations shouldn't be too much either. Going to get a cruise most likely, and get married by a Cappy out in the ocean. Pretty rad. Love my girl, neither her nor I have any interest in a traditional, massive, expensive wedding, and definitely not interested in going within a mile of a church.
- If you don't get married in a Chruch you'll be doomed though.orrinward
- kona0
other than a mortgage we have no debt. the cards and cars have been paid off for almost two years now and it feels gooooooooood.
- time to make some purchases thenckentish
- indeed. we're thinking of upgrading to a bigger house. :)kona
- ditto kone. no debt and sometimes we want a bigger house, but going for the bigger/better deal is a slippery slopesputnik2
- slope. we try to be happy w/our nice little house.sputnik2
- Well, we need a bigger house if we want to *cough*, expand the 'ol family. :)kona
- plash0
it has turned into a ill fact but the world has significantly less money than it once had 15 years ago. in one fell swoop money was burned.
now to what devices allow this and who is responsible that is a debate that has been raging.
as i see it, the only culture that allows so much debt is any culture that eagerly puts money as its main indicator of progress. markets fluctuate , thats what they do. its this day trading culture that puts it on the front page of every newspapers. as americans we got other issues we need to address ..
- hedged0
Congratulations, dMullins.
I want people paying me interest, not the other way around.