[cantdrv55]

That's how I feel sometimes anyway. I like camping, hiking, kayaking and riding bicycles. Their idea of the great outdoors is spending the day in an open air shopping mall. I like old cars and bikes because I feel, "they don't make 'em like they used to". My brothers won't buy anything w/o a window sticker and a 3/36 warranty. I'm the tallest of the four of us at 5'8" but I wear size 11 shoes and 46 regular suits. My siblings' shoe sizes range from 7 to 9 and all are skinny minis - typical Filipino/Chinese fellas. My parents must have laced my milk formula with steroids.

Anyway, I have a 30 year old house that requires some fixing. I bought it when the market was down at a very good price so I still have lots of equity even in this recession. My siblings, however, all have newer homes and as a result, they're all underwater or very near it. Back when housing was hot and scarce, they took turns telling me to stop being so cheap, sell my old house and use my equity to buy a new home. Man am I glad I didn't succumb.

How could I be so different from these guys? I swear if we didn't resemble each other so much, I'd get a DNA test.

Anyone else in the same situation?