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That's a lot of f0cking beer. How many can you put back ?

Bought 3 six packs of Miller highlife 8 ounce bottles for a party back in the 90's. I think I drank 16 of them. Hurled twice on the drive home. Luckily it was only about 3 miles & on a very low traffic gravel road.

Exactly. That's why I find these commercials for rocket money so entertaining! https://www.ispot.tv/ad/Bh2d/rocket-money-bike-subscriptions

Heather Thomas Mid 80's https://www.imagebam.com/view/ME19CHT4

https://babylonbee.com/news/sad-ilhan-omar-tells-brother-its-time-they-start-seeing-other-siblings

That's a great point. Sometime within the past couple of years, Minnesota went that route (free school lunch for all regardless of income) They even make lunches available during the summer. All it amounts to is more control for the Democrats. Get the masses used to government providing everything. Once they do that, they own you. “In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet, & say to us, “Make us your slaves, but feed us” Fyodor Dostoevsky

My interest in FF has been waning for the last 5 years. So glad my coworkers (after 2 years of trying) finally convinced me to give it a go in 2005. But alas, it's over. It was a fun 20 years.

Agreed. I've since become a credit card guy, but before I retired, I used cash for all my day-to-day transactions. Had no idea how much I spent on these non-recurring expenses, so I made up a simple spreadsheet (10 spending categories) & got in the habit of asking for a receipt on every transaction. A couple times a week, I’d enter the receipt amounts into the spreadsheet. Completely painless, although the average of about $70 per day surprised me.

2025 Returns: https://www.imagebam.com/view/ME19AEWT Regardless of the account, my goal is always the same. Outperform the DJIA. Incredibly pleased that I not only did that, but beat the S&P 500 as well. (3 of 4 accounts) The Individual TOD (Taxable Account) is the biggest. This account originated in 1994 when I took 5K, & opened a brokerage account @ a small office called PrimeVest inside a local bank. 1st shares purchased were Intel. They were the Nvidia of the day from the mid 80s, until the early 2000s. Any time I'd have an extra 2 or 3K, I'd deposit it. In January 97 I bought a gateway 2000 desktop & because the commissions at prime vest were insanely high, opened a brokerage account at Fidelity. Shortly after, I transferred the prime vest account. Had 1 mutual fund each at, Bridgeway, T Rowe price, and Wasatch. I transferred all of those to Fidelity for consolidation purposes. A screen cap of the holdings in that account. https://www.imagebam.com/view/ME19AEWU Crown Holdings (CCK) is the company I retired from. I purchased shares at $1.94 on whatever day the markets reopened after 9/11. Bought my first shares of Eli Lilly in 2011. The Rollover IRA was my Vanguard 401(k) until late in 2024 when I rolled it into an IRA. No excuses for that performance. I used that account to buy stocks & sell out of the money covered calls to improve my returns. The biggest mistake was taking substantial positions in beaten down companies, thinking they were at or near the bottom and would soon recover. WRONG! One example is ConAgra foods. I hope to substantially improve on those returns in 2026. Regards

"Poor people spend money to look rich" That reminded me of something you'd see in those little classified ads in the back of magazine's ages ago. https://www.imagebam.com/view/ME199IU7

I know she was appointed by the previous democrat governor, Mark Dayton. He wasn't quite as bad as walz, but he was close. Here's an idea of what governor dayton was about. https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/gov-dayton-leads-discussion-on-st-cloud-race-relations/

The daycare fraud involving Somali in Minnesota didn't just start recently. In 2017, federal and state investigators were actively pursuing cases related to a multi-million dollar fraud scheme involving Somali-operated daycares in Minnesota's Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP). Charges were filed against several operators that year.

Absolutely brutal.

Sure