Re: Why I Own The World
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2023 4:32 pm
Qevin McCarthy has a better shot of being speaker.
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Qevin McCarthy has a better shot of being speaker.
After four years of Hilton on my case about taking up one of their free-stay deals in exchange for attending a "portfolio presentation" I finally caved because the dates they gave me at a N. Scottsdale property lines up with time I wanted to spend in the PHX area this week.CatsbyAZ wrote: ↑Mon Mar 09, 2020 8:34 am Thanks to my employer booking us into Homewood Suites or Hilton Gardens when sending us on work travel, we're all Hilton Honors members. It's been this way for a while, and though I don't work-travel too much, I still accumulate enough "points" for free weekend stays about once or twice a year. All was good until this year when Hilton started soliciting me for their Hilton Grand Vacation Ownerships (Timeshares). They called a few times, cheery as anything (but also relentless) to offer a free weekend in Vegas for attending one of their seminars, which I turned down until having to hang up one them.
It turns out Hilton is split into different companies - Hilton Worldwide owns all the properties and operates the hotel properties whereas Hilton Grand Vacation Club is a spin-off that runs the timeshare side of the Hilton Brand. HGVC is an independently operated business that provides an additional income stream to Hilton by paying millions upon millions of profit to Hilton for use of their brand and properties.
Congrats! It's a good feeling to know you got your financial shit togetherChicat wrote: ↑Fri Jul 12, 2024 2:55 pm Met with our financial advisor this week. Apparently we are on track to pay for our kids’ college and retire by 60 but won’t take Social Security until we are 67.
I don’t know what kind of voodoo bullshit he did with the math but it somehow didn’t involve us selling our house and becoming homeless hippies.
Credit goes where credit is due. Femcat is a saver.84Cat wrote: ↑Fri Jul 12, 2024 2:57 pmCongrats! It's a good feeling to know you got your financial shit togetherChicat wrote: ↑Fri Jul 12, 2024 2:55 pm Met with our financial advisor this week. Apparently we are on track to pay for our kids’ college and retire by 60 but won’t take Social Security until we are 67.
I don’t know what kind of voodoo bullshit he did with the math but it somehow didn’t involve us selling our house and becoming homeless hippies.
Funny thing is I was just having a generation discussion with my 12-year-old. He thinks of us as Millenials because his friends’ parents are of that generation, but we had kids late so we are 5-10 years older than them.
I hope you appreciate just how rare it is to have gotten on and stayed on course, especially having (presumably) missed the good market years from Reagan through Clinton. Now you get to plan for funding 40 goddamned years in retirement. And before you scoff at that number, don't.Chicat wrote: ↑Fri Jul 12, 2024 2:55 pm Met with our financial advisor this week. Apparently we are on track to pay for our kids’ college and retire by 60 but won’t take Social Security until we are 67.
I don’t know what kind of voodoo bullshit he did with the math but it somehow didn’t involve us selling our house and becoming homeless hippies.
You can borrow for #1 & #3, but not #2 (although I wouldn’t suggest borrowing for any of them).scumdevils86 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 13, 2024 5:30 am Congrats. You definitely have reached the same near unattainable dream for anyone under 50 these days. I know my wife and I basically get to choose between one of the three of comfortable current living, retirement, college funds. Not more than 1.
You forgot, “get off my lawn”Chicat wrote: ↑Fri Jul 12, 2024 3:29 pmFunny thing is I was just having a generation discussion with my 12-year-old. He thinks of us as Millenials because his friends’ parents are of that generation, but we had kids late so we are 5-10 years older than them.
In actuality we are GenX (or X-enials since we were born in ‘77 so right on the cusp) but I KNOW that kid actually thinks of us as Boomers. Like we watched Bob Hope and the Vietnam War on our old Black & White console TV. So I’m embracing it! Gonna start telling everyone my locked in interest rate and suggest anyone with a nose ring “just work harder”.
Exactly my issue as someone who's tried to largely stay out of debt the last 5-10 years.Chicat wrote: ↑Sat Jul 13, 2024 5:37 amYou can borrow for #1 & #3, but not #2 (although I wouldn’t suggest borrowing for any of them).scumdevils86 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 13, 2024 5:30 am Congrats. You definitely have reached the same near unattainable dream for anyone under 50 these days. I know my wife and I basically get to choose between one of the three of comfortable current living, retirement, college funds. Not more than 1.
Congrats. That is a great accomplishment. I was born in 77 also and I am counting down the days to early retirement. I'm sick of the grind.Chicat wrote: ↑Fri Jul 12, 2024 2:55 pm Met with our financial advisor this week. Apparently we are on track to pay for our kids’ college and retire by 60 but won’t take Social Security until we are 67.
I don’t know what kind of voodoo bullshit he did with the math but it somehow didn’t involve us selling our house and becoming homeless hippies.