tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37147734.post1987311762776814394..comments2024-02-05T03:19:36.585-05:00Comments on Living Almost Large: Lucky moves or smart choices?Living Almost Largehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06594523259748625997noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37147734.post-10885348675476432452023-10-09T11:44:51.076-04:002023-10-09T11:44:51.076-04:00yeezy boost 350
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A person can do well despite imperfection, and yea, even bad luck along the way.<BR/><BR/>(I was laid off in an early 90s downturn and was unemployed and underemployed for 14 months before finding the next professional job; I've had three primary cancers. These bad luck things didn't really derail the big picture plan because of good non-retirement savings and good health insurance. Bad luck doesn't have to be devastating.)<BR/><BR/>Came here from March Madness!kentuckylizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08110491371985845560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37147734.post-74951099129602333722008-03-04T08:56:00.000-05:002008-03-04T08:56:00.000-05:00Game 14- LuckyGame 14- LuckyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37147734.post-24373198227976164022007-09-28T14:15:00.000-04:002007-09-28T14:15:00.000-04:00"most of our contemporaries are struggling to affo..."most of our contemporaries are struggling to afford single family homes"<BR/><BR/>smart choice you guys made! You must sacrifice little things now in order to enjoy your lives later.<BR/><BR/>Your friends did just the opposite, enjoy life now<BR/><BR/>It will all show as you get older, you guys will be financiall free and they will still be struggling check to checkL. Marie Josephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08742625250214975088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37147734.post-19856924630686467422007-09-27T21:02:00.000-04:002007-09-27T21:02:00.000-04:00I think in one major way I am LUCKY. How so? I f...I think in one major way I am LUCKY. How so? I found a soul mate early in life who is very compatible with me.<BR/><BR/>That is super lucky because I have TON of single friends. It's impossible in some ways to catch up because they are constantly dating and looking for a soulmate. After all it takes a lot of luck to meet the right person.<BR/><BR/>Otherwise I think we made some right moves.Living Almost Largehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06594523259748625997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37147734.post-54623980826885529822007-09-26T23:16:00.000-04:002007-09-26T23:16:00.000-04:00My comment wasn't a challenge to you - just a comm...My comment wasn't a challenge to you - just a comment. As for your question, I think there's a difference between luck and making good decisions. I don't subscribe to this "make your own luck" theory, because that's just an incorrect term. You're talking about making good financial decisions and people tell you that you're lucky, it's just a word people use incorrectly. I don't think all of them actually mean luck and I don't think they mean to be flip about whatever work it took to get you to where you are. <BR/><BR/>However, I think I was both lucky and made good decisions - that was my point in my comment. I can't comment on what you are, obviously! :-)Lizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14949581552735297007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37147734.post-24496394535239703402007-09-26T20:15:00.000-04:002007-09-26T20:15:00.000-04:00Well I had college loans but I lived cheap to pay ...Well I had college loans but I lived cheap to pay them off fast. DH had a car loan because he moved internationaly for college. He also spend a year during college working full time and saved nearly his whole salary by living in a cheap rented room. That salary $20k paid for a car and for DP on our house.<BR/><BR/>So were we lucky? Or did we make some of our luck? We both didn't leave college scot free.Living Almost Largehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06594523259748625997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37147734.post-53378645987009949112007-09-26T17:08:00.000-04:002007-09-26T17:08:00.000-04:00It's an interesting question, luck or smarts. I u...It's an interesting question, luck or smarts. I understand what you are saying, to some extent. I bought my first house at 25. It was the same cost as renting, but it felt very risky, even though it turned out to be the most sound financial decision we could have made. As a result, in four short years, at 29, our first house had doubled in price, allowing us to buy a second home, on an acre of property in a desirable area of the country. We went with an older home which was expensive but again, on an acre in a beautiful neighborhood just minutes from two major transportation options to work. We bought the smallest house we could afford knowing we could do all the updating and expanding we needed to, cheaply, and we have. We also bought into a much nicer neighborhood than we could afford if we were buying now. Smart, not lucky, right? <BR/><BR/>ut let's go back to luck. How did we buy that first house? Well, we had savings. How did we have those savings? For one, at 25 neither of us had college loans. Was this smart or luck? I say luck, since it was our parents that avoided that for us by paying for our college educations and taking loans in their own names. Also, we had no major medical problems that would cost us money or bills. Again, to me this is luck. So I have to say our firm foundation was luck, and what we did with it was smarts.Lizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14949581552735297007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37147734.post-25255210001133239722007-09-25T09:24:00.000-04:002007-09-25T09:24:00.000-04:00A large part of "luck" is knowing what opportuniti...A large part of "luck" is knowing what opportunities to take and which ones to pass by, at least for the time being.<BR/><BR/>You folks are doing well, and at your age, you should be very proud of yourselves.Grace.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03557395027685855901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37147734.post-6238189252881235452007-09-24T22:31:00.000-04:002007-09-24T22:31:00.000-04:00I'm kind of sidestepping the question, but my answ...I'm kind of sidestepping the question, but my answer is that most of the time, we (generic we) make our own luck.frugal zeitgeisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17804781758510341558noreply@blogger.com