Just A Quick Reflection

[fporrettoParticipant 26]

About a year ago, I paid off all my debts. Mortgage, car loans, revolving credit card accounts: the lot. It brought a sense of liberation that eclipses everything else in my experience.

Seriously, brothers: even completely uninhibited sex with a beautiful woman who was utterly crazy about me was never this good. (Then again, she did eventually try to kill me as I slept.)

I’m a married man. Like most married men, my wife is better at spending money than making it, and she has no interest whatsoever in saving it. (Old age? What’s that? Illness? That happens to other people.) So it became vital that I master a word I almost never used in my younger years.

NO!

My wife doesn’t like that word. She keeps at me, hoping I’ll give in if she persists long enough. Time was, I might have done that…but not since I cleared all my debts. The strength I gained from that exceeds her ability to sway me, whether by tender importunings or by threats of abrupt departure. (Of course, it helps that my response to the latter is “What should I do with your stuff? Burn it or put it out at the curb?”)

I exhort everyone I know to try this debt-free stuff. It’s utterly addictive. Better than any high you can imagine. And it seems to come with a bonus: the ability to tell the other half to stuff it back where it came from if she doesn’t want you to stuff it for her — and somewhere much less comfortable.

Try it and see!

[– Deleted on Request –Spectator 936]

One reason my cousin’s first ex-wife dumped him was that he was always irresponsible when it came to money.  He’s walked away from at least 2 houses and has been bankrupt at least the same number of times.  Nowadays, he scarcely has 2 pennies to rub together.

 

[Smacktalk73Participant 296]

Well done, fporretto.  There is a collective delusion in our culture that pretends you “own” something when you don’t really own anything — that if you borrow $150,000 to buy a $150,000 house, you are a “homeowner” and when you buy a $30,000 car with $3,000 down you “own” a car.  Total bulls~~~.  And it is getting SO much worse.   If you truly own your home free and clear, than you are a WEALTHY man, by the standards of any society.  F~~~ the trimmings of wealth so many people flash around.  Owning a home free and clear means you are free.  Well done, indeed.

The opportunity to be wealthy — to own enough wealth that you don’t have to worry about being homeless for the rest of your life — is there, and people should fight for it.  Even more power to you, since you did it within a marriage — getting a wife to agree to the work it takes to pull this off is a whole other accomplishment.

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