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Anonymous Coward User ID: 70732873 United States 04/07/2016 09:59 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | So we have 6 monthly revenue sources that bring in $7,500 a month / $90,000 annually tax-free and we are debt free, grow our own food and raise rabbits and chickens and have a shit ton of preps for a decade plus 1,000 oz. of silver. We planned, prepped, saved, for this scenario since 1999 We are in our 40's and 50's life is good. When it all crashed we are self supportive and loaded for bear. I feel bad for those who did not prep over the years, but we saw this comming years ago and did not want to find our selves in dire straights. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 26837133 United States 04/07/2016 10:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I am lucky to have a decent job, the likes which will never be seen again after I retire. I am grateful for that, however... I am doing okay but based on today's cost of living and taxes, should be doing much better. I'm back living in a starter home after my divorce after living in a modest custom built home and will never be able to leave here. Yes I'm glad and fortunate to have my own home but am angry that the standards for quality of life keep going down and down and down and we're just supposed to be okay with that like it's normal, because damn, someone is poorer than you so shame on you for feeling that way. I have been working my whole life. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 71981480 Sweden 04/07/2016 10:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Been working with three employment agencies and searching on my own for over two years. Quoting: Corpus Anima Although due to a back injury I cannot work in my field of experience (construction), until I have recovered, all I have been offered are jobs in call centers that pay between $11.00 and $12.00 per hour. While I took two jobs in different call centers I did not last long. A horrible, meaningless, soul sucking position IMO. Currently delivering pizzas, 35 hours a week, averaging $15.00 per hour. After insurance, rent and bills I have about $100.00 extra a month for whatever. Kinda funny, I never made less then $40,000 and $50,000 a year for decades. Meh. At least delivering pizzas is no stress and most the time I am on the road listening to audio books and music. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 5758745 United States 04/07/2016 10:18 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | We are rolling here in Sw. Idaho, busier than hell construction everywhere. Wages haven't risen much over the last few years and things continue to go up in price....real estate is in a boom here again, it's a sellers market. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 36228723 Houses with land outside the towns and cities have been skyrocketing. My close friend and his aging mom went up there with her nest-egg to buy a house in NW Idaho - I know just what you are saying. It sure is nice up there, tho. He wants me to join him but I have way too much family and my kids who are just barely legal here and I am not ready to jump ship. They had very few attachments, so it's easier to take off and relocate, I guess. Some day I do hope to retire outside the big city, tho. Just the thought of future weddings and grand babies and having to be so far away just doesn't bode well with me, I'm not the long distance type. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 71938801 United States 04/07/2016 10:25 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I was in the grocery store this morning looking for cheap food. I saw bacon at 6 dollars a pound! I was remembering when I had a good job and could afford to eat whatever I wanted. I bought a dollars worth of eggs for 2.50 and went over to the dollar store to spend what I had left on canned mackerel. Then I went over to the local job service and the place was packed! I spent all of my resources prepping for a crash! I wish this system would just collapse so we can get back to some sense of normalcy. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 71938801 What does dollar store mackerel taste like? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 71368576 I don't know, either. I buy their salmon. Then a dollar box of stove top. Throw in some onion and celery if I have some and a large dollop of cream cheese, and two eggs. I feed the skin and bones to the cat. Add the salmon and juice to the above and shape into patties or a loaf. You can eat for at least 3 days on this. It tastes very good and is economical. Mackeral? Is that more like really big sardines as far as taste goes? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 71436274 The can is lined with BPA and aluminum. Scrimp on organic, educated food and your life will end sickly. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 70174325 Is that the white can liner? If so, this is old school, no liner stuff. But, I do cook the patties or loaf in organic coconut oil, I hope that helps. By saving money on groceries, I was able to plant a raised bed garden that is def organic. Dollar store Mackerel taste a lot like tuna and it is the same stuff they sell at Walmart for a 1.68 a can. I use this instead of tuna because I get 15 ounces instead of 5 ounces like tuna. Is is a canned in China anyhow just like 90% of everything thing else we eat........... just like Mac Donald's! I do not have the money to be picky right now! I only eat once a day at 6 P.M. One can of Mackerel will last me two to three days. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 71882682 Canada 04/07/2016 10:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I've downsized from 4 retail stores in 4 cities to 1 in my hometown where I own the building free and clear. Life is much simpler, my wife runs the store I run the income properties "Success is directly related to the amount of 'correct' bullshit one is willing to endure" - My sigline We're fine BUT - most of our money is sheltered in our 2 companies. Canada has a 65% progressive income tax rate after 100K income and another 13% Goods/Services tax on everything else to fund a pig bloated inefficient socialist self-serving self-perpetuating gov't. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 11448335 United States 04/07/2016 10:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Come on GLP!!! Quoting: olelady What do you say??? I would really like to see what people across the country or world think. Heart of the financial district aka mortgage banking/real estate. Volume very good last 5 years. Rates kept artificially low for to long. Home values over inflated as a result. Word on the street is hold on to your ass....something is coming. Bubble markets re-inflated but this time with mass regulations. What's coming next is the question. The price of everything is way to high for everything IMO. Middle Class workers earned income average has been dwindled. It shrunk and the welfare states EXPLODED. The Rich got EVEN RICHER. This makes me almost puke in my mouth. Bottom line.....it is exhausting to deal with a financial system that is consumed with corruption/greed combined with choking regulations. In markets 17 years. My take on where I see it? Very dangerous financial time for the United States. What a mess. |
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nutmeg User ID: 70579162 United States 04/07/2016 10:42 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Laid off two months ago, for the 5th time in the past 10 years. Temp to hire labor work has been my life for almost 20 years. I'm exhausted by the system and making final plans to check out, death is better than slavery. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 68062391 Go on welfare and hang in there! Don't feel guilty. You've worked all your life. You just ran out of luck. You're much better and more industrious than those who never worked and sat on their butts. If the government can support the illegals, there's no reason they can't help you! You deserve it! |
Moraniac User ID: 70730716 United States 04/07/2016 10:44 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Things here, for us, SUCK. Quoting: olelady My husband got hurt pretty bad not too long ago. Can't work at the moment. My paycheck just isn't enough. So, we have had to make the choice to eat or pay our bills. With a bunch of kids, you choose to eat. Gone through two nest eggs through this crisis. Now, that they're gone, we can't pay the bills. It's awful. There is NO jobs in the area, at all. So, it's not like he can just go get a new job. He's done construction all of his life so he would have to be trained in a new field. But with no jobs in our area, what would be the point? That's how it's going for us. Sounds like I'm not the only one up Schitt's creek. Sign of the times I guess. :( Although, I'm glad to see that there are others doing well. The only good jobs in my town are available at L3. If you're not summoned by them personally either by email or phone call you'll NEVER EVER get in there. Otherwise the only jobs in town are the service jobs. Remember, service jobs are the manual backbreaking jobs of the job world. They're also the lowest paying and most demeaning of them all too. The other good jobs are becoming centralized at the established high tech centers/cities too. Here in Texas it's the DFW metropolitan area, San Antonio, and Houston for the high tech centers. As Obama lets our many, many corporations continually and permanently ship our mid level to high level jobs overseas expect to see things continually worsen here in the States. Obama and his Masters have made it being an American to be an all around bad proposition so far. It's getting worse with each passing day. There is no hope, no light at the end of the tunnel, there is nothing but pain, misery, and ultimately being treated far, FAR worse than dirt by the homed society for when you're forced to become homeless by multiple horrible means. One deplorable means being the very bank you're paying lots of money to on time for mortgage payments steals your house from out under you and forecloses on you. Hell, ANY bank can and will do this to you outright. It's been going on for years now and it's been getting worse and worse all across the U.S. Just because no news site has covered this horrific banking malpractice for over a year doesn't mean diddly about it having had stopped. It's gotten alot worse and will continue to drastically get worse with each passing day too. So those homeless people you shamelessly and viciously victimize on a daily basis could of very well been so radically and horrifically betrayed by some random bank and their homes foreclosed on. Obviously this is against the law, people, but the banks have all the money, you got next to nothing. You got nothing to help you legal wise. You're totally shit out of luck when a random bank comes to foreclose on your home. You had best learn how to protect yourself legally or join the ranks of the homeless. I own my home free and clear, so hopefully I'll never have to worry about that. BUT, I'm telling you people, if that does happen, just holdover in your house, or find another foreclosed house that's empty and just move in. And don't be sneaky about it, just move in. Mow the lawn, take any foreclosure signs down, turn on the utilities and tell the neighbors you bought the house. Winter is Coming. |
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Craazee8 User ID: 71063658 United States 04/07/2016 10:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Good post. I would have thought your question would have attracted more of a response. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 28173795 I wonder how some of these other people make it. Around the Houston area, they continue to build houses which start in the upper 280K range and above. I wonder to my self. Even in some of my best saliery years, a house with a $1600 mortgage payments a month would have been tough. But it seems like all of these residential districts full up. I have no idea how they survive living in these sky-high residential districts... Maybe Im missing something.. I wonder that too how they do it. I live with other people and we split the costs for rent. We have one CAR. Gas is expensive. I take the city bus to work. We all still saving money to get noodles aka spaghetti. We stock our shelves with spaghetti. We all are just getting by right now. "They" are Indians who come from upper class families and have the down payment given to them. "They" both have high paying technology jobs and are making 170K+ between them. You are a pissant. Barack Obama prefers you die. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 70321915 United States 04/07/2016 11:07 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | My state had thousands of layoffs due to Keystone Pipeline not passing. It hurt so many companies and families Prior we had a natural disaster that flooded away one tenth of our city and we had the biggest helicopter airlift rescue, more than hurricane Katrina they said in the interview. Note I said "helicopter" Many in Katrina mustve been rescued by boat. We were near two bases so we did have plenty of helicopters to deploy so thats why the numbers were so high. So we are still recovering from the above and the oil layoffs is still continuing |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 70321915 United States 04/07/2016 11:12 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I was in the grocery store this morning looking for cheap food. I saw bacon at 6 dollars a pound! I was remembering when I had a good job and could afford to eat whatever I wanted. I bought a dollars worth of eggs for 2.50 and went over to the dollar store to spend what I had left on canned mackerel. Then I went over to the local job service and the place was packed! I spent all of my resources prepping for a crash! I wish this system would just collapse so we can get back to some sense of normalcy. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 71938801 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 71938801 What does dollar store mackerel taste like? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 71368576 I don't know, either. I buy their salmon. Then a dollar box of stove top. Throw in some onion and celery if I have some and a large dollop of cream cheese, and two eggs. I feed the skin and bones to the cat. Add the salmon and juice to the above and shape into patties or a loaf. You can eat for at least 3 days on this. It tastes very good and is economical. Mackeral? Is that more like really big sardines as far as taste goes? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 71436274 The can is lined with BPA and aluminum. Scrimp on organic, educated food and your life will end sickly. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 70174325 Is that the white can liner? If so, this is old school, no liner stuff. But, I do cook the patties or loaf in organic coconut oil, I hope that helps. By saving money on groceries, I was able to plant a raised bed garden that is def organic. Dollar store Mackerel taste a lot like tuna and it is the same stuff they sell at Walmart for a 1.68 a can. I use this instead of tuna because I get 15 ounces instead of 5 ounces like tuna. Is is a canned in China anyhow just like 90% of everything thing else we eat........... just like Mac Donald's! I do not have the money to be picky right now! I only eat once a day at 6 P.M. One can of Mackerel will last me two to three days. Dollar store mackeral is good. I used to take off the softened bones, and place the filets in a frying pan and season it with soysauce and asian seasoning like hot paste , add some chopped scallions and put it over a bed of rice. |
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nutmeg User ID: 70579162 United States 04/07/2016 11:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | lost litteraly everything, ended up getting into a debilitating accident where I was just about dead, after. Been homeless maybe a year. In young, parents are long gone. When I had money, a business, cars, nice places I had family and friends. Now my "family " won't even answer or return my calls on Christmas Easter etc. Quoting: Sir_Knight Sir_Knight..... You have a message in your mailbox. Click on "mailbox" on left side of page. Then "Inbox." Last Edited by nutmeg on 04/07/2016 11:23 PM |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 70321915 United States 04/07/2016 11:22 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'm a little confused as to why anyone is hungry and can't get food. 48 million Americans get food stamps, and anywhere in CA there are food banks everywhere. The poor and homeless eat better than some working poor families, and everyone is overweight. Quoting: Lioness and cubs As for us we've been able to save a month's salary, the cubs are still young but I'm seriously already pushing them to learn a trade/skill or three over a 4-year degree. Preferably both as I'm foolishly counting on them to take care of me in my senior years (not too far off btw), since I have 0 retirement other than SS. Agreed, when we were in tough times there was a church that gave walk ins a box of food two times a week if you stopped by in the morning. You just signed your name, and got a box or two Then there was a couple of plasma donation centers that paid 60 dollars for two visits.If one was in a bind they could donate plasma If ones food stamp application falled to the wayside somehow, every city I knew had a shorter application for food bank Then theres shelters that hand out sandwiches, I used to work in one. We also had a three square meals a day kitchen that fed all walk ins. One night would be pizza night, another night would be Chinese, another night we served steak ! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 27238910 United States 04/07/2016 11:33 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Got a big fat raise 1.5 years back. Yearly raises. Bonuses.....major bonus this year. Yep, its good for people who have a job and skills in demand. I hate corporate world....but it pays the bills. I know the economy is in the crapper but for some reason I always position myself into nice niches that make money. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 61693114 United States 04/07/2016 11:42 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I saw something about HUD wanting to make it illegal to live in trailers, RV's, vans etc. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 58670080 Don't listen to internet bullshit, do your own research man. The HUD thing is in the proposal stage but if it passes it's only if you finance through HUD it has to be a house they approve. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 58670080 United States 04/07/2016 11:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I saw something about HUD wanting to make it illegal to live in trailers, RV's, vans etc. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 58670080 Don't listen to internet bullshit, do your own research man. The HUD thing is in the proposal stage but if it passes it's only if you finance through HUD it has to be a house they approve. that's good to hear. my suv is my backup if things really go south. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 69287891 United States 04/07/2016 11:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Sorry but those poll makes no sense. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 4228108 In the thread title, your asking the question "how are you doing in this economy?" But poll answers are all based on your opinion of the economy. But the two are not related. Personally, I'm doing well in this economy, but my opinion of the economy is very negative. There's no way I can choose one of the answers accurately in your poll. I agree with you. We are fine but I see so many who are not. |