Beautiful (hetro) woman I talk to says: She would find it funny (her husband is a big joker), but yes, it could be stressful at the onset to be told your husband is cheating on you.

Did they make a song about that?

Just read this to a beautiful woman I know.

Her response: That’s not going to end near as well/funny as you think/hope it will.

That “mother”, and I use to term lightly here, is beyond stupid dangerous (the one that said there were no nuts in the cookie).

After saving my child, it would have been all I could do to not beat them to a bloody pulp.

The first time I saw this was about 11:30 pm on TV.

I laughed so hard and long, my partner ran upstairs to see if it was having a seizure!

Patient: Doctor, it hurts when I move my arm this way.

Doctor: Well, don’t move your arm that way then.

Absolutely, everyone should do themselves.

5 years is the minimum time frame I’ve heard for stock market investments; YMMV.

With all due respect, what you did was not investing; it was closer to speculating. If your time horizon is less than 5 years, what you should look at is a savings account/certificate of deposit, not the stock market.

I had a mutual fund once (the Putnam Health Sciences Trust) that went down three or four years in a row (probably about 30-35% total). The same financial advisors who recommend I buy it advised that I sell it for the last two years I owned it. I didn’t take their advice and held on to it - the next year it had about a 75% increase. I would have missed that and locked in my losses if I had listen to them.

I fully agree it’s not a complete stock market model, but I don’t think It claims to be.

I don’t remember it addressing what happened to dividends paid; are they just banked, reinvested, etc.

Might want to check this out: Beat The Couch.

I know an ~32 that is about 2 courses away from getting their BA in Fine Arts in music. They just stopped there. Haven’t used any of that study since.

I find that a terribly sad perspective - while children are certainly expensive from an economic standpoint, they often have tremendous payback in other ways (and sometimes economically too).

The people already in power.

Active listening is very important.

Also, really answer their questions in depth. Don’t just act like “That question is stupid/obvious”; it’s not to them and shouldn’t be to you. I would ask both my parents questions and they all too frequently would just look at me and then look away. It was very hurtful and frustrating; I still feel/think about it multiple decades later.

Great to hear you have overcome the negativity; just sorry you didn’t have the support each child deserves.

It isn’t a problem there (since they are all family, everyone gets along). /s

There is no “single answer” for this; way too many factors to consider.

Try getting an idea from a website geared to that subject, like Wind Turbine Calculator, just the first of many links from a popular web search engine.

We passed great a helluva long time ago.

The last ambulance ride I took was $5,000 (US); that was after the insurance write down. Distance was about 5 miles and no “special treatment” other than a back board.

This sounds all too familiar.

Good luck indeed.