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GoGoGadgetChris posted:Say more! What does this mean? My father likes to mention how much money he has when we talk on the phone (we're in different states). It's a lot, barring catastrophic economic events it'll be more when the time comes but it's kind of gross thinking about it in those terms. E: mention as in milestones - millionaire, multimillionaire, 5MM, etc. He doesn't drop penny-precise amounts after saying hello or anything.
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FAUXTON posted:My father likes to mention how much money he has when we talk on the phone (we're in different states). It's a lot, barring catastrophic economic events it'll be more when the time comes but it's kind of gross thinking about it in those terms. It's all going to the family cat.
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baquerd posted:It's all going to the family cat. One cat cannot spend that much. Most of it will go to cloning the family cat and the rest will go to the now plural cats.
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Krispy Wafer posted:One cat cannot spend that much. Most of it will go to cloning the family cat and the rest will go to the now plural cats. Per stirpes gets pretty hairy in that situation.
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Thanks to the passing of years, I'm down to inheriting only four sibling-children instead of five! Keep on living, in-laws. Two more years and it'll be just three, and if I make it 13 more years without inheriting any, I'll finally feel free and clear enough to  Seriously, who the gently caress thought it was okay for a couple in their mid-sixties to adopt infants? God drat.
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Sundae posted:Thanks to the passing of years, I'm down to inheriting only four sibling-children instead of five! Keep on living, in-laws. Two more years and it'll be just three, and if I make it 13 more years without inheriting any, I'll finally feel free and clear enough to What the gently caress? Details?
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Coworker may be BWM. They are going from office to office asking "Do you like Hawaii?" In response to "Yes?...", they try to sell their timeshare on Kona. For extra sales power they say flights are cheaper than you may expect, then trail off without naming a price or showing photos. So far ineffective. Next step is to put up a handwritten ad in the breakroom, instead of adapting a strategy to reach customers beyond a fifty yard radius from their desk.
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:What the gently caress? Details? Yeah, what the gently caress? My wife and I are considering adopting in our early 40's, which is BWM on its own, but goddamn in your fuckin' 60's? Tony Randall-ing that poo poo is bad with money and bad with life, because I'm the best thing for your kid to experience as they're going through puberty is the death of their parents from old age. Jesus Christ, why not just foster?
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Sundae posted:Seriously, who the gently caress thought it was okay for a couple in their mid-sixties to adopt infants? God drat. Who, indeed? I mean most reputable fertility clinics won't treat you after 50, for good reason.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Coworker may be BWM. They are going from office to office asking "Do you like Hawaii?" In response to "Yes?...", they try to sell their timeshare on Kona. Both bad with money, and bad with coworkers. I'd loving hate someone trying to sell me their timeshare while I'm a de facto captive audience.
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baquerd posted:It's all going to the family cat. He doesn't have a cat but he does have dogs. Murphy's gonna get everything isn't he, gently caress I'll just have to continue in my habit of sensible financial behavior GOD DAMNIT
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:What the gently caress? Details? My in-laws had five biological children, and as soon as they were grown up, the whole empty nest thing kicked in. So, they started fostering. They did a great job with that (their hearts are in the right place if not their heads) but fell in love with all the kids and one by one adopted them. Four of the five adoptees are in some way or another special-needs children. The oldest of them (actual aspergers, not internet aspergers) is on his way to trade school now, but the next four are all still young. The youngest was adopted four years ago now when she was one year old and her parents-to-be were 65 and 61. The biological children and their spouses were all against it largely because of their parents' age. The parents did it anyway and told the kids they'd just have to "be responsible adults and take care of their siblings if anything happened." Standard boomer poo poo in that regard (be responsible for our bad decisions). Meanwhile, of the five biological children, there are only two who are stable financially. It used to be only one at the time of the youngest adoption--my wife. She was financially stable because she married me. She and all four of the others were either art or theater majors. Now, there is a second who is stable because her theater work paid off and she's on Broadway now. Of the five biological siblings, my wife is the only one with less than $50K of student loan debt. (She had $100K but our writing royalties paid it off. FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS, their parents told all of them.) So, when I look at the situation, I see three struggling millennials with high debt, one with high debt and a good job (but one which is ill-suited for taking care of children), and my wife/me. We're the only stable set out of the family. There will still be two minors when the father hits 80. The youngest will be 15, I believe. If college is in the picture for the kids, there will likely be one still in college. The parents have, between mortgage and parent PLUS loans, over $400K of debt. That's just the stuff I know about (disclosures I made them tell me about before I married their daughter), but since then they also bought a super fancy camper, always seem to have new cars whenever I visit, etc etc. I highly doubt they're sitting on some amazing life insurance payout or inheritance, and even if they do, ten kids. So yeah... if they don't live a really good long time, my inheritance is likely taking care of children who are technically my brothers and sisters in law, because the others will still be buried under monumental piles of debt. quote:. Jesus Christ, why not just foster? They did. They just kept adopting the fosters. 
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Holy cow that is something. For the part when you said you made them disclose that they had $400k in debt before you agreed to marriage, what would have been the unacceptable cutoff level?
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I'd guess that even if there was no number that was a dealbreaker, he at least wanted to KNOW for planning purposes.
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Please have them look into the legal rights the adopted kids have regarding post-secondary education; in some states former foster kids who spent X amount of time in state custody have funding for a college or vocational education at state-funded schools.
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I feel like a 65-year-old that wants to adopt a one-year-old is not mentally competent to be adopting a one-year-old.
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Lol @ buying poo poo (like watches or TVs or funko pops) being a “””hobby”””. Adopting kids, now that’s a hobby!
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Holy cow that is something. For the part when you said you made them disclose that they had $400k in debt before you agreed to marriage, what would have been the unacceptable cutoff level? It was more about the kind of debt to me. Parent plus dies with the parent, mortgages aren't a problem, etc. I more wanted to know that the debts weren't able to pass to kids (medical, etc) and that they weren't indicative of lifestyles they'd have passed along. No credit cards on behalf of children, etc. There was nothing among the debts that I can get stuck with and my wife has very good spending habits now, so no deal breaker there. The kid issues weren't on my radar back then.
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CheesyDog posted:Please have them look into the legal rights the adopted kids have regarding post-secondary education; in some states former foster kids who spent X amount of time in state custody have funding for a college or vocational education at state-funded schools.
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Haven't seen MLM stuff in this thread in a while  
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She’s really going after her community pretty hard. Strong ending.
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I always feel bad where they are about to lose their husband/wife over this poo poo. It's really lovely what MLMs do to people.
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Sup dog I heard you like makeup so here's some rebranded poo poo off wish you're never gonna be able to sell, the honeymoon can wait
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Youth Decay posted:Haven't seen MLM stuff in this thread in a while
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The 65 year olds adopting babies is my parents next door neighbor who is older than my parents although it is a weird mess of adopted grandkids (great grandchildren maybe?) along with not related individuals. Her parenting style is mostly just scream at them and threaten to throw them out. From my knowledge of their outcomes. Non Blood Adopted: (To my knowledge) 1. 28-29 year old who is homeless in Portland. I know this because they asked my dad if he could drive them to a greyhound station after they got thrown out for being a lesbian whose girlfriend was "stealing". Dropped Out HS 2. 26-27 year old younger sister who is also homeless in Portland. I know this because they asked my dad if he could drive them to a greyhound station after they got thrown out. She I think graduated from Community College? 3. 26-27 adopted dude who disappeared after he graduated high school. I have no idea what happened to him. Kids of Son?: (Committed murder/suicide with wife at some point) 3. 24 year old who is the same age as me, has a job lives with her and way to much debt from one of those terrible art institute schools so can't move out. I talk to her on occasion. 4. 21-22 year old younger brother of above who has HIV Aids and dropped out of highschool and is cut off contact, his sister doesn't know if he is dead or not. I liked him, but he got into hard drugs in high school. Kids of Adopted ~35+ something Daughter I never met~: (In prison for various things) 5. 19 year old grandson. Sells drugs... also he knocked up a 40 year old with 4 other kids and has baby now (the gently caress)??? Dropped out of HS. Getting thrown out like in a week or two. 6. 13-14 year old twins sisters of above son. I dunno much about them they just started high school, which is when everything fell apart for most ofthe others. 7. ~1 year old baby girl born in prison now adopted. The most GWM person in this family is the grandaughter who went to a for profit college. Jack2142 fucked around with this message at 04:04 on Aug 17, 2018 |
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Jack2142 posted:The 65 year olds adopting babies is my parents next door neighbor who is older than my parents although it is a weird mess of adopted grandkids (great grandchildren maybe?) along with not related individuals. Her parenting style is mostly just scream at them and threaten to throw them out. God drat... at least on our side, the kids have mostly turned out alright so far. The parents are a financial disaster but the kids have all grown up to be pretty damned cool/sweet once they realized how bad their parents' "follow your dreams no matter the cost" bullshit advice had been. 
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Sundae posted:God drat... at least on our side, the kids have mostly turned out alright so far. The parents are a financial disaster but the kids have all grown up to be pretty damned cool/sweet once they realized how bad their parents' "follow your dreams no matter the cost" bullshit advice had been. Yeah its a complete trainwreck.
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Haifisch posted:I'm going to assume this is all one person even though there's no evidence for that. It's just funnier that way. It’s a loving three-act play, pure perfection as Shakespearean tragedy
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I didn't know PTSD was now one of those lifestyle "illnesses" you could put on and take off at whim to garner attention/sympathy/likes and subscribes. The more you know
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Weatherman posted:I didn't know PTSD was now one of those lifestyle "illnesses" you could put on and take off at whim to garner attention/sympathy/likes and subscribes. The more you know Count yourself very, very lucky to have apparently missed a large chunk of the last like 5 loving years of internet bullshit.
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wilderthanmild posted:I always feel bad where they are about to lose their husband/wife over this poo poo. It's really lovely what MLMs do to people. Future Husband now knows if he marries Future Wife she will spend him into the grave chasing every money losing opportunity she can find on the Internet. I'd consider the loss of the honeymoon fund to be the best money he'd ever spent.
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I hate to be callous, but have you considered just not taking responsibility for another person's decision to adopt infants at 65? It was not your call to make getting in and that is something I would not hold the bag on. Family is important, and if my brother died and left a kid behind I would care for the child, but if my parents who are in their 70s decided to adopt over my objections, I wouldn't take responsibility for that.
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Ashcans posted:Now that I am older and have the money I dreamed about, I know I need to carefully hoard it to avoid dying of exposure in my old age. Dying of exposure can be extremely GWM, imagine how cheap the funeral will be if the vultures and coyotes have a few weeks to pick you over first! GoGoGadgetChris posted:The car you like is actually bad. Hey, how about we don't go kicking a dude while he's down and admitting to making some lovely decisions thanks to what was, by all accounts, the divorce from hell. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 09:32 on Aug 17, 2018 |
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Liquid Communism posted:
Lol you’re in the wrong thread.
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Weatherman posted:I didn't know PTSD was now one of those lifestyle "illnesses" you could put on and take off at whim to garner attention/sympathy/likes and subscribes. The more you know I think it went Aspergers > PSTD > anxiety from about 2007 to now. Trends come and go, so there may be a resurgence in PSTD claims soon. CONTENT: Just wasted $19 AUD going to see Slenderman. On the plus side, "Wren" looks almost exactly like a girl I went to high school with. Sic Semper Goon fucked around with this message at 12:42 on Aug 17, 2018 |
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Sic Semper Goon posted:CONTENT: Just wasted $19 AUD going to see Slenderman. On the plus side, "Wren" looks almost exactly like a girl I went to high school with.  they started filming that when the actress was 17
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