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brugroffil posted:this sounds pretty apocryphal tbh Yea I am not really sure when that is supposed to have happened. Wedding rings are easily traced to as far back as the 1550s in just England, and the exchange of rings is probably thousands of years old. Also it wasn't just a ritual for wealthy people, it was a common part of the ceremony so it would be done by regular folk, who would frequently be exchanging rings without any particular wealth value. Also at least as far back as we know ring ceremonies were commonly conducted people were not wandering around freely, many were still bound to the land, so the idea of a widely roaming serial bigamist is... unlikely, at least to motivate an entire tradition.
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Tomfoolery posted:You can pay him $19 for "email solutions" to your problems - total of 1,000 words. Or pay $25k for the "Legacy Package" for personal branding: Excuse me sir, this is the BAD with money thread. Convincing rich people to pay stupid amounts of money for you typing out you opinion is very good with money. I mean here I am just giving it away for free. Convincing people to give you money for no service whatsoever is even better with money, and has very low overhead.
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Tomfoolery posted:Some self-help guru called Loy Machado had a super weird response to the softball Quora question of, "What made you smile today?" What the gently caress is going on at his website: http://www.whoisloymachedo.com/#accomplishment quote:How Expensive I Am In Comparison To My Competition?: 99 % 
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https://www.loymachedo.com/2017/05/prostitute/ The idea of that guy riding around on a scooter looking for a thai hooker because his relationships with women half his age keep failing is kinda hilarious tbh.
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Ashcans posted:Yea I am not really sure when that is supposed to have happened. Wedding rings are easily traced to as far back as the 1550s in just England, and the exchange of rings is probably thousands of years old. Also it wasn't just a ritual for wealthy people, it was a common part of the ceremony so it would be done by regular folk, who would frequently be exchanging rings without any particular wealth value. Also at least as far back as we know ring ceremonies were commonly conducted people were not wandering around freely, many were still bound to the land, so the idea of a widely roaming serial bigamist is... unlikely, at least to motivate an entire tradition. brugroffil posted:this sounds pretty apocryphal tbh Ok, I went down a small rabbit hole to check this out and you're right, it's probably bullshit. My mistake.
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ranbo das posted:https://www.loymachedo.com/2017/05/prostitute/ This is the most tedious thing I've ever read about prostitutes. How do you write something so boring about hookers?
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Suspicious Lump posted:What the gently caress is going on at his website:  that's good
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ranbo das posted:https://www.loymachedo.com/2017/05/prostitute/ I picture him as one of those kooky Key West parrotheads, except in Thailand and obsessed with hookers instead of Jimmy Buffett.
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I want a show like Kung Fu, but instead of fighting for justice he's marrying women, taking the dowry, and skipping town, leaving ruined lives and tears in his wake.
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Quantum Leap: Matrimonial Boogaloo
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The littlest hobo, but the dog gets married every episode
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Lol if you don't just buy 20$ rings on Amazon and spend the rest of the money you would otherwise spend on a blood diamond on a nice honeymoon or a loving car or a kitchen remodel or literally anything else that is actually useful.
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Like a horse!
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Tipps posted:Lol if you don't just buy 20$ rings on Amazon and spend the rest of the money you would otherwise spend on a blood diamond on a nice honeymoon or a loving car or a kitchen remodel or literally anything else that is actually useful.
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Tipps posted:Lol if you don't just buy 20$ rings on Amazon and spend the rest of the money you would otherwise spend on a blood diamond on a nice honeymoon or a loving car or a kitchen remodel or literally anything else that is actually useful. 
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This thread inspired me to discuss the engagement ring parameters with my girlfriend and probably saved me a lot of money! Goon-analyzed love finance is the best love finance.
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What the gently caress happened to this?pig slut lisa posted:
Shut up you guys.
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potatoducks posted:What the gently caress happened to this? Reported back seat mod
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more like lol if you're too poor to buy a real wedding ring and still afford other stuff that you want. this isn't the budgeting thread guys.
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Subjunctive posted:This thread inspired me to discuss the engagement ring parameters with my girlfriend and probably saved me a lot of money! Glad at least some good came of a perennial, boring derail.
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Actual BWM/BWL engagement ring content time. This fellow splurged for a ring that costs as much as a car and the inevitable occurred: https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/6uf7ms/fiance_told_me_its_over_what_now/ quote:Fiance told me it's over. What now? Oh yeah, he's now sleeping on the couch while his ex-fiance apparently gets the bed-- presumably her reward for dumping him. Wonder how much he'll recoup on the ring? Half?
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At least he makes enough to cover the rent alone.
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drat, $18k is like a 2 carat stone. Although he probably got ripped off and bought a 1 carat for that price from a retail store. edit: I can get a 2.7 carat stone for $17k or a 21 carat stone for $1.8M on bluenile.
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Ashcans posted:Like a horse! Content: I was at the market today, was a teenage girl busking with a fiddle accompanied by the sign "I'm saving for a horse".
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Pompous Rhombus posted:Content: I was at the market today, was a teenage girl busking with a fiddle accompanied by the sign "I'm saving for a horse". If avocado toast means millennials cant afford a home, I wonder what buying a horse means.
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It means you can't afford avocado toast anymore because of the horse
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If it wasn't for my avacado toast, I wouldn't have spent that year in college.
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Pompous Rhombus posted:Content: I was at the market today, was a teenage girl busking with a fiddle accompanied by the sign "I'm saving for a horse". That rules, gwm gwl
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Don't expensive wedding rings get lost or stolen all the drat time?
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Yes. Buy insurance in your ring.
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I paid extra to add avocado to my brunch tacos last weekend, and thought of this thread. The avocado was delicious.
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My friends wife lost her 10k engagement ring in a public park while playing with their dogs. When we asked him if he had insurance he said "of course not, I'm Jewish". I thought them folk were supposed to be good with money!
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LLCoolJD posted:I paid extra to add avocado to my brunch tacos last weekend, and thought of this thread. The avocado was delicious. GUILLOTINE!
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LLCoolJD posted:I paid extra to add avocado to my brunch tacos last weekend, and thought of this thread. The avocado was delicious. Enjoy homelessness.
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Volmarias posted:Yes. Buy insurance in your ring.
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the expected value of insurance is negative (with some exceptions for subsidized insurance like commonly for health insurance) if you can easily absorb the loss then it's gwm to avoid insurance on things - same with extended warranties
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Zo posted:the expected value of insurance is negative (with some exceptions for subsidized insurance like commonly for health insurance) From an NPV/expected value standpoint yes, but from an uncertainty optimizing utility curve it could be the opposite (you have a small marginal gain in happiness from the non purchase of insurance, but can have an outsized negative happiness effect from an uninsured loss). It would be like a term life insurance policy for someone just starting to ramp up in compensation with non-working dependents,they might expect to be fine, but place such weight on their dependents that the happiness loss would offset the gain of the insurance premiums. Well, the thought of that happiness loss I guess since they won't be around at that point. This gets into loss aversion and how much happiness someone would forgo in order to insure against a specific value of unhappiness and let's insuance companies price above actuarial price in the absence of competition. I didn't do great in my intermediate econ class, but this and intertemporal optimization I do recall. Edit: you said expected value in your post, this whole thing is redundant as you also qualified for easily absorbed losses.
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Zo posted:the expected value of insurance is negative (with some exceptions for subsidized insurance like commonly for health insurance) Not if you know you're significantly more risky than the average person who buys the coverage.
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Normally insurance for a bike or ring or whatever is just a rider on your home insurance.
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potatoducks posted:What the gently caress happened to this? You're right, my bad.
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