Steiny77's latest activity
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SThat seems like you are one financial hiccup away from disaster.
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SWe became debt free just over a month ago. We put off putting as much in savings for a year and busted our butts to try and put...
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SThey get free school lunch. Wife and I are home so leftovers for us. Biggest shift is stop shopping at Costco for premade stuff and...
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SWe are doing an exercise this month, January pantry cook off. For the month we can only buy eggs, milk, vegetables, and bread. With...
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SSteiny77 replied to the thread Ran its course, now in the weeds..Did something similar. Bought a lake house, put about 50% downpayment and took out a really low interest rate loan for the rest. Made...
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SWe paid our home off about eight years ago. We bought a different home with more property this spring. We had a mortgage for all of 4...
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SSteiny77 replied to the thread Ran its course, now in the weeds..Found a copy of our note from buying this place in 1990. Interest rate was 9.9%. That was the going rate and nobody made a big deal...
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Slol, pork roast in a crock pot
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SSteiny77 replied to the thread Plate ‘em up.Explain the poor mans prime rib please.
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S60s-70s, but it wouldn't have mattered; our income was so low we couldn't have serviced any debt. Lots of us here grew up poor, and...
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SI skipped to the end here, but still thinking of the original question. I recently did the "dumb" thing too and paid off my ~4% mortgage...
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SI think paying off the mortgage has more to do with life experience than finance. When I was a kid if the small ranch we owned wasn't...
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SI can't even follow this.. You want me to teach you like you're 16, but you are actually a non-working retiree whom still has a freaking...
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SPro investment tip: I heard opening a daycare in Minnesota is a money printing machine.
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SPlenty of folks around here who are still making mortgage payments and there property tax is a bigger part of there escrow payment than...
