Honestly we live frugally enough that $1M would put me in the early retirement bracket. If we won “fuck you” money? I’d immediately change all contact info and erase social media accounts. We have a person who handles our financials already and we’d make a beeline to her office to have trusts for our sons and future grandkids set up. Then go to my cousin, who owns the family farm, with checkbook in hand to buy it and build a new home there. It’s on top of a high hill at the end of a dirt road with a very long driveway. I’d spend my days there in my own little farm. We’d also give a lot of money away, but not to anyone who asks for it, especially family coming round with a sob story. I know that sounds bad, but some of them have always lived a champagne lifestyle on a Kool Aid budget. Can’t pay your bills but went on another vacation? Sucks to be you.
I thought "fuck you" money was when you when you don't have to worry about legal troubles because you have the money to buy your way out of everything? If we're talking "just enough to retire" money, then that's different. My wife is a numbers nerd and has been running a personal P&L for us and we'll need about $100k per year when we retire. Of course that doesn't factor in the skyrocketing inflation though, so we'll see.
Not much of a view at the camp site, but it’s hot, humid, water is a 5 minute walk away, and we have AC when needed. Great way to spend a 4 day weekend.
Depending on how much legal trouble you plan to get into, this number might be the same definition as mine. Random story: went for a hike today and it was a brutal uphill slog. Very short hike, but it was 2800 ft. of elevation gain on loose rock over a paltry 2 miles. We hike a whole lot and I was still absolutely drenched with sweat and panting. As we were coming down, a family was walking up with three small kids, in the ~9-10 year old range. Two women were in the lead, and one boy and two girls were in the middle, and a guy was trailing well behind and sucking wind so hard that he almost ran into us because he wasn't lifting his head. Apparently the boy wasn't psyched about the hike - I would not have tried to get kids up this mountain - and one woman turns around and loudly admonishes him, "this hike will make you a man. Don't you want to be a man?" And all I could think was there were 2 women and 2 girls leading this hike with the dad practically dying a hundred yards behind, and yet she still chose to make it about the kid's manhood.
We went blueberry picking again since the fruit bat in the house made short work of the last batch. Some of these were HUGE.
We watched the first one last night. It really is a true successor. What's the most interesting to me about that episode is that the lady opposite the main character with the problem is a real person and I was able to look her up on LinkedIn. She is a librarian at a college.
I posted about it in the TV thread, but everyone should watch The Bear. It might be the best show of the year. It’s at least up there with Severance in terms of how good it is.
It’s now thunder and lightning and pissing down rain at the campsite. So happy to have the Tin Can. So many campsites/tents packing up in the pouring rain and we’re just here enjoying it under the awning.
Some of the best camping trips are the ones where it rains the whole time so long as you have a dry bed and a pop up or awning to hang out under.
Yep. Some of my favourite fishing weekends had a “cabin day”. Excuse to sit by the wood stove and watch movies we brought in on a laptop. Drinking. Eating. More drinking. Napping. There’s something to be said about removing the guilt for not fishing and just relaxing and doing nothing.
There's names for all sorts of tan lines. Farmer's tan, bikini lines. So what do you call it when your shirt rides up in the back regularly and you have a strip of a tan over your pants line? Plumbers tape? Tramp lines?
It’s pissing down rain outside, not sure how we’ll ever survive. Didn’t get the starlink pole mount finished in time, so had to improvise.