The Economy

Oh, we actually do that, for all the people who pretend they don't know how, even though their 6-year-old is excited to do it.

 

There is one bonus to self checkout. If you pay in cash and wear a hat, you can usually get every sixth or seventh item for free with no consequence. Just make sure it’s not meat or anything that’ll trigger the alarms.

 

Aldi’s giant barcodes are amazing. You can scan them from space.

 

Crossthread alert!

Disaster at Eugene Weekly

This is why you should check your retirement accounts regularly.

 

Previous workplace had an Aldi two doors down. It was glorious.

Never trusted their meats, however.

 

As someone else said, my 401(k) is paper money to me that I don’t expect to have kicking around.

If it’s still there when I’m 65, that’s a bonus. Hoping SS is there. I don’t anticipate ever retiring, unless a large safe is dropped off in front of my house before 2043, so it’s all irrelevant.

Part of me thinks I’m going to die in the townhouse we bought, expanded family be damned, because of the ridiculous cheap interest rate. Fiancée doesn’t believe in the extra-mortgage-payment-a-year deal, otherwise we’d be a couple deposits down that road.

 

The only words sadder than those are "The cancer has metastasized."

 

I'm sitting here at a video poker terminal at a very, very quiet casino bar and sipping on my 2nd screwdriver. That I'm down $25 (but only $5 overall for the trip!) is trivial ... listening in on this NFL argument between the only cocktail waitress and the other only bartender is gold, Jerry, gold!

 

I've been told for 30 years that my Social Security won't be there for me, so why count on my retirement savings? I just never think of the retirement account as my net worth today — kind of like how our house has supposedly gone up 30 percent in value over the past three years. Great. It's only worth that much when someone cuts me a check for it.

As for not retiring, I just don't see myself never not doing anything. No longer working 40-hour weeks? Sure. But I'll probably be working 20. I'm just not a golf guy or a beach guy or a lounging-in-front-of-the-pool guy, anything like that. Since I'll be getting a very late start on the family life, my kid will probably still be in high school or just out of it when I'm 65.

 

I went to a retirement seminar courtesy to learn more about IRA's. etc. Many people at the seminar were terrified about beginning an unstrutcted life, They had been successful people but they ahd always had someplace to go and something to do. They were worried what they would do without some external sense of direction.