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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Linn County, Oregon
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One hopes to find a balance. For Cindy & I, a nest egg means security. We don't live lavishly, but we do enjoy life in our own manner. We do feel secure...no debt, and we pretty much live as we like.
What's sad is the person who invests and saves, and once reaching "critical mass", enough wealth to live their chosen lifestyle the rest of their days, keeps on the accumulation kick. We read about them once in a while...with headlines like: "Man worth billions dies, lived in a one room shack."
But even then, I shrug and think that well, that was his chosen lifestyle...Maybe there are those whose final thought is wishing they'd spent more time working.
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"Now, to put a water-cooled engine in the rear and to have a radiator in the front, that's not very intelligent."
-Ferry Porsche (PANO, Oct. '73) (I, Paul D. have loved this quote since 1973. It will remain as long as I post here.)
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