I hurt thinking the richest nation does not have enough equipment to battle the viruses newest target - the great people of New York, especially New York City. I stand in awe at stimulus package after package that is thrown at this crisis and think about the gift it will provide to many to reflate the economy. It makes me wonder how many lives could have been saved if the country did not need to remain "Open for Business" because of the curse of debt. When I think about this crisis, I wonder how much pain it will inflict physically from the disease, economically to the country, financially to all of us, but emotionally to most of us who did not or unfortunately cannot save enough to weather the storm to make rent or the mortgage or the car bill or the utilities. But on my financial terms and that coach is sitting in my second home and still complimented to this day. Yup that was me, but I shop well and it was Macy's higher end furniture and I helped a couple who needed it gone because they had to leave for Australia. When my wife was my then girlfriend, she would jokingly introduce me as the guy who bought a new home but got his coach off of Craigslist. Yes, they are showing their age and one is in the shop but that repair bill is looking better and better that getting a fancy new car in an environment like this. With 2 cars both going on 15+ years of age means, our cars are paid off (one less bill to fret about).
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And what I hope will stay with you is I did it the old-fashioned way - I saved day after day reminding myself I grew up po' middle class and I'm not in a HURRY to go back. These are pillars that you can implement to ensure you're built to last. And I'm blessed with a pot of funds I've saved over the years to take risks at a time when many are unfortunately being squeezed. I de-risked by moving my retirement fund to cash - because it's purpose is just for that.RETIREMENT. I'm blessed to be able to sit back and write a blog because I have a rainy day fund built to withstand this disease and economic fallout still to come. While I would love to get back to what I'm buying and selling, my goal right now honestly is on educating people about risk. My accounting background saved me I guess. I guess that's the perfect picture of the America dream, the big home - but who is going to stop you when you can't afford it. And of boy did they ever - the city continued to extend and while some cornfields are still there, I see less and less as the years pass. But what's the saying if you build it they will come. It didn't add up so I told myself back in 2005 something doesn't feel right.
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My sister made more money than I did but somehow I was pre-approved for a loan almost double her amount. I soon began my path to homeownership and then stopped. While I applauded her for getting a newly built home for a great price, I kept giving her grief for moving to the boondocks - yep right across from cornfields. My saving grace was the Lord blessing me ☝ with an opportunity to be in town while my sister was house hunting for her first home. There were the market highs I wrote about in 2007 which were peppered with my incessant rants about the housing market being eerily over inflated. I recently spent some time reading my own posts from late 2007 into 2010 to remind myself of what we lived through in the last crisis. My parents don't do any exercise or understand that I want to eat different things, such as swapping out meat for vegetables sometimes.Sorry Bill Maher, it was my very rare attempt at trying to be politically correct but I got caught so I thank the readers for keeping me honest. When I'm at home during the holidays, especially summer, I find it so hard to eat healthily and maintain a good exercise routine when my parents buy and choose what we eat most of the time and I find that I always want to do nothing and relax. However, in my second year, I finally got it together and started getting back into a routine of eating healthily and exercising regularly, and felt amazing, really improving my mental health, which had been affecting me for a while. I found it hard to get into a routine in my first year due to my social life and being lazy. I am 20 and have just finished my second year at university.