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Title: What should my wife do with her money?
Post by: CC27 on February 12, 2015, 02:20:56 PM
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Star Member Bigmack (7,516 posts)

What should my wife do with her money?


Both of us are confirmed gloom-and-doomers... and skeptics...and not schooled in money management, either.

We were both high-school teachers, and we can tell you more about the history and makeup of the US debt than what to do with our own money. As teachers, we didn't have all that much money to deal with, anyway.

My wife came into an inheritance, and she/we are wondering what to do with it.

It's sitting in a Credit Union as we speak... earning .5% Both of us - as gloom and doomers - are uncomfortable leaving it there... or in some kind of institution. With the last crash in mind, and the next one coming up, with the derivatives and toxic financial "products" out there, we both feel our economy is a house of cards.

Gold..? We both think the market is owned and controlled, so we don't think so.

Real Estate...? Hey, there was a real estate crash.

Any of you bright souls have any ideas?

Worst place to ask about handling money DUmmie.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/111664535
Title: Re: What should my wife do with her money?
Post by: Gina on February 12, 2015, 02:34:44 PM
Did the death tax get them?
Title: Re: What should my wife do with her money?
Post by: thundley4 on February 12, 2015, 02:36:10 PM
Invest in a pot growing farm, legal or illegal, it doesn't matter. Your fellow DUmmies will make you rich. They value pot above food and water.
Title: Re: What should my wife do with her money?
Post by: obumazombie on February 12, 2015, 02:46:13 PM
A good lib would probably stuff it in a mattress.
Title: Re: What should my wife do with her money?
Post by: Big Dog on February 12, 2015, 02:55:52 PM
A good lib would probably stuff it in a mattress.

Nope, every DUmmy knows that all property really belongs to the State. From each according to his ability, to each according to his need is the DUmmy way

Send it to Emperor Putmos, DUmmy.  He will send back your fair share.
Title: Re: What should my wife do with her money?
Post by: obumazombie on February 12, 2015, 03:01:53 PM
Nope, every DUmmy knows that all property really belongs to the State. From each according to his ability, to each according to his need is the DUmmy way

Send it to Emperor Putmos, DUmmy.  He will send back your fair share.

That's a great idea except libs think that rule applies to everyone else but them.
Title: Re: What should my wife do with her money?
Post by: GOBUCKS on February 12, 2015, 03:38:23 PM
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Star Member Bigmack (7,516 posts)

What should my wife do with her money?

My wife came into an inheritance, and she/we are wondering what to do with it.

Looks like Dummy d-man's inflatable wife has a new man.
Title: Re: What should my wife do with her money?
Post by: Rebel on February 12, 2015, 03:52:26 PM
Invest in a pot growing farm, legal or illegal, it doesn't matter. Your fellow DUmmies will make you rich. They value pot above food and water.

That's what I'd do. And I'd have free pot testing every election day starting at 6 AM.
Title: Re: What should my wife do with her money?
Post by: Skul on February 12, 2015, 03:55:52 PM
Interesting variety of replies. #2, masons, suggested "try to keep the government from stealing most of it".
I found that reply, telling.
Others wanted charities to get some. More, suggested spending it as fast as they can. (Various investments & etc.)
All in all, I almost expect DUmmie, Bigmack, to turn Republican quite soon.   :rotf:
Title: Re: What should my wife do with her money?
Post by: Tucker on February 12, 2015, 04:58:33 PM
Invest in a pot growing farm, legal or illegal, it doesn't matter. Your fellow DUmmies will make you rich. They value pot above food and water.

Better yet invest in a legal endeavor and invest in cheeto's. Your market is sky high.
Title: Re: What should my wife do with her money?
Post by: delilahmused on February 12, 2015, 05:12:22 PM
Give it to the poor and downtrodden. You know, "live simply so that others may simply live". Why should you have more? Live your values or admit they're for everyone else, not you.

Cindie
Title: Re: What should my wife do with her money?
Post by: FlaGator on February 12, 2015, 06:26:20 PM
Give it all to the government because you libs know you don't pay enough in taxes.
Title: Re: What should my wife do with her money?
Post by: freedumb2003b on February 12, 2015, 06:46:01 PM
Give it to the poor and downtrodden. You know, "live simply so that others may simply live". Why should you have more? Live your values or admit they're for everyone else, not you.

Cindie

And Cindie/da wins the Internet!!!!!!!

H5!!
Title: Re: What should my wife do with her money?
Post by: diesel driver on February 12, 2015, 07:10:39 PM
So, they're HS teachers, no doubt union, no doubt liberal, no doubt dimrat.

And too F'N STOOPID to know what to do with a little extra cash.   :thatsright:

Worst part is they are TEACHERS!!!!
Title: Re: What should my wife do with her money?
Post by: GOBUCKS on February 12, 2015, 07:23:08 PM
Send it to stewert.
Title: Re: What should my wife do with her money?
Post by: Mr Mannn on February 13, 2015, 06:24:11 AM
1) buy a vacant lot in the middle of a city.
2) let it go to weed, breed rats and get your neighbors to hate you.
3) place piles of junk on your land. Put abandoned trucks on your land. Breed black widow spiders.
4) call it a farm.
5) play all upset when the city sues you and takes your land away.

Loads of fun! Look at Mo, she loves this game.
Title: Re: What should my wife do with her money?
Post by: Gina on February 13, 2015, 08:33:34 AM
Give it to the poor and downtrodden. You know, "live simply so that others may simply live". Why should you have more? Live your values or admit they're for everyone else, not you.

Cindie

I'm hoping they see this  :-)
Title: Re: What should my wife do with her money?
Post by: SVPete on February 13, 2015, 09:13:41 AM
Cattle futures!

Or pork bellies ... the world needs more bacon!
Title: Re: What should my wife do with her money?
Post by: BlueStateSaint on February 13, 2015, 09:19:42 AM
Cattle futures!

Or pork bellies ... the world needs more bacon!

My wife made a chicken and bacon stew last week that was great--except I felt it needed more bacon.  It had one pound.  I told her to double it, the next time she makes it. :cheersmate:

(Sorry for the thread hijack.)
Title: Re: What should my wife do with her money?
Post by: RayRaytheSBS on February 13, 2015, 11:10:34 AM
So, they're HS teachers, no doubt union, no doubt liberal, no doubt dimrat.

 And too F'N STOOPID to know what to do with a little extra cash.   :thatsright:
Worst part is they are TEACHERS!!!!

You know what they say: 'Those who can, do; Those who can't, teach'.
Title: Re: What should my wife do with her money?
Post by: Big Dog on February 13, 2015, 11:20:47 AM
My wife made a chicken and bacon stew last week that was great--except I felt it needed more bacon.  It had one pound.  I told her to double it, the next time she makes it. :cheersmate:

(Sorry for the thread hijack.)

I have bacon, chicken, and vegetables. Thanks for the great idea!
Title: Re: What should my wife do with her money?
Post by: BlueStateSaint on February 13, 2015, 11:55:26 AM
I have bacon, chicken, and vegetables. Thanks for the great idea!

There were also some sweet potatoes, carrots, and butternut squash in it as well.  I'll PM you the recipe.
Title: Re: What should my wife do with her money?
Post by: obumazombie on February 13, 2015, 01:05:10 PM
Cattle futures!

Or pork bellies ... the world needs more bacon!
Hitlery turned $1,000.00 into $100,000.00 doing just that.
Title: Re: What should my wife do with her money?
Post by: Big Dog on February 13, 2015, 02:23:38 PM
There were also some sweet potatoes, carrots, and butternut squash in it as well.  I'll PM you the recipe.

Thanks!
Title: Re: What should my wife do with her money?
Post by: Big Dog on February 13, 2015, 02:24:35 PM
Hitlery turned $1,000.00 into $100,000.00 doing just that.

Whereas I would turn $1,000 in pork bellies into one big bacon sammich.
Title: Re: What should my wife do with her money?
Post by: obumazombie on February 13, 2015, 02:27:41 PM
Whereas I would turn $1,000 in pork bellies into one big bacon sammich.
Canine on porcine violence !
Title: Re: What should my wife do with her money?
Post by: Big Dog on February 13, 2015, 02:48:38 PM
Canine on porcine violence !

I am so glad you didn't call it 'rape'.

 :fuelfire:
Title: Re: What should my wife do with her money?
Post by: J P Sousa on February 13, 2015, 03:47:09 PM
Nope, every DUmmy knows that all property really belongs to the State. From each according to his ability, to each according to his need is the DUmmy way

Send it to Emperor Putmos, DUmmy.  He will send back your fair share.

It seems so obvious considering their left wing commitment, but even though they probably earn $160,000 (if they teach in a blue state) I'm sure they  consider themselves "poor".  :lmao:
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Title: Re: What should my wife do with her money?
Post by: franksolich on February 13, 2015, 04:04:36 PM
Send it to Emperor Putmos, DUmmy.

Sorry about getting off-topic here, but--

You know, I have to say that's one of the most descriptive words I've ever seen; it needs no illustration, because immediately springs into mind the image of Obama as the Sphinx.

Perhaps "pharoah" would be more appropriate than 'emperor," but that's a little matter.
Title: Re: What should my wife do with her money?
Post by: Tucker on February 13, 2015, 04:05:33 PM
There were also some sweet potatoes, carrots, and butternut squash in it as well.  I'll PM you the recipe.

Yuck!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: What should my wife do with her money?
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on February 13, 2015, 04:15:36 PM
I must say, I'm surprised der $kammer hasn't leaped on this opportunity to fleece the gullible.
Title: Re: What should my wife do with her money?
Post by: franksolich on February 13, 2015, 04:16:43 PM
I must say, I'm surprised der $kammer hasn't leaped on this opportunity to fleece the gullible.

Well, he does have that buy-a-heart thing going on right now.
Title: Re: What should my wife do with her money?
Post by: landofconfusion80 on February 13, 2015, 04:34:59 PM
The primitive really needs to buy hearts for every single other primitive until the money runs out.  That's the only responsible thing for an island dweller to do.
Title: Re: What should my wife do with her money?
Post by: ChuckJ on February 13, 2015, 05:10:26 PM
I'd suggest Bigmack contact the DUmmie TorchTheWitch.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026221474
Title: Re: What should my wife do with her money?
Post by: GOBUCKS on February 13, 2015, 09:34:48 PM
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It's sitting in a Credit Union as we speak... earning .5%

If it's a typical Dummy estate, that means about a dollar a month.
Title: Re: What should my wife do with her money?
Post by: obumazombie on February 14, 2015, 10:29:52 AM
If it's a typical Dummy estate, that means about a dollar a month.
At least it's tax free.
Title: Re: What should my wife do with her money?
Post by: miskie on February 14, 2015, 11:31:08 AM
Most of the primitives chiming in on this thread need to be marked for financial targeting by the IRS, as they are all part of the evil 1%. There are primitives living in slums and illegals living in cardboard boxes who could be better served with that extraneous wealth.
Title: Re: What should my wife do with her money?
Post by: tanstaafl on February 14, 2015, 12:04:42 PM
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It's sitting in a Credit Union as we speak... earning .5%
If it's a typical Dummy estate, that means about a dollar a month.

Y'know, if I could find a CU or bank that was paying 0.5% I'd have a ton of money to deposit there. Alas, there ain't none nowhere, at least in this country. If it's a savings account, it's paying 0.01%, tops. You'd have to go to 5 year CD's or bonds to get anywhere near one half of one percent on any money. Who wants to tie up their wealth for that long?

Thusly, I declare this Dummy incompetent. Plus ignorant and delusional. 0.5%, can't even get that in a brokerage money market. And as far as GOLD goes, there's a lot of weight to be lugged around. Diamonds would be a better portable wealth.
Title: Re: What should my wife do with her money?
Post by: Ptarmigan on February 14, 2015, 12:32:57 PM
Give it to the poor and downtrodden. You know, "live simply so that others may simply live". Why should you have more? Live your values or admit they're for everyone else, not you.

Cindie

Agreed, but they are hypocrites.
Title: Re: What should my wife do with her money?
Post by: GOBUCKS on February 14, 2015, 01:43:17 PM
Y'know, if I could find a CU or bank that was paying 0.5% I'd have a ton of money to deposit there. Alas, there ain't none nowhere, at least in this country.
During the golden age of Jimmeh, some may recall money market accounts paying 15-20%.

Inflation was also high, but incomes nearly kept pace.

If you didn't have to take out a mortgage or other loan, there was a ton of money to be made.

If you had to borrow money, you were screwed.

The second-worst president in history did have an up side.
Title: Re: What should my wife do with her money?
Post by: franksolich on February 15, 2015, 07:13:45 PM
comment 2759:
http://conservativecave.com/index.php?topic=81827.2750
Title: Re: What should my wife do with her money?
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on February 15, 2015, 07:44:41 PM
During the golden age of Jimmeh, some may recall money market accounts paying 15-20%.

Inflation was also high, but incomes nearly kept pace.

Unless you were receiving military pay.  And God help you if you needed to change those plunging dollars into a harder currency to pay a debt overseas, like DeutschMarks.
Title: Re: What should my wife do with her money?
Post by: J P Sousa on February 16, 2015, 06:05:19 PM
During the golden age of Jimmeh, some may recall money market accounts paying 15-20%.Inflation was also high, but incomes nearly kept pace.

If you didn't have to take out a mortgage or other loan, there was a ton of money to be made.

If you had to borrow money, you were screwed.

The second-worst president in history did have an up side.

Yeah but I was unemployed at the time. Thanks, Jimmy.  :bird:
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Title: Re: What should my wife do with her money?
Post by: obumazombie on February 16, 2015, 06:29:05 PM
Yeah but I was unemployed at the time. Thanks, Jimmy.  :bird:
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His credit re investment act paved the way for owebuma to be elected.
Thanks Jimmeh.
Title: Re: What should my wife do with her money?
Post by: 98ZJUSMC on February 16, 2015, 07:18:11 PM
Send it to stewert.
:-)
Title: Re: What should my wife do with her money?
Post by: 98ZJUSMC on February 16, 2015, 07:20:04 PM
Unless you were receiving military pay.  And God help you if you needed to change those plunging dollars into a harder currency to pay a debt overseas, like DeutschMarks.

No joke.  For the Military, it sucked.
Title: Re: What should my wife do with her money?
Post by: franksolich on February 17, 2015, 04:19:46 AM
No joke.  For the Military, it sucked.

Really, for everybody but desk-sitting governmental bureaucrats, it sucked.

I was young, and just getting started, about 1980.  It's true Reagan was shortly thereafter elected in a massive landslide, but the mess was such that it took even him--and no help from the obstructionists Vast Teddy and Tipsy O'Neill--three or four years to fix most of the problems.

The Republicans suffered minor losses in the 1982 mid-term elections, as the public forgot who'd gotten us into this mess in the first place, and had expected big changes like, really fast.

But by late 1983 or early 1984, all was getting well again, and the public re-elected Reagan with an even larger margin than they'd elected him the first time around.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the Ronald Reagan-George Bush presidencies, twelve years, was the longest stretch of uninterrupted growth in American history.

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But earlier than that, say from about early 1978 through the rest of the Jimmy Carter presidency and into about a year of the Reagan presidency (but it wasn't his fault; he couldn't stop things right on their tracks), there was that rampant inflation.

UPCs weren't in common use then; grocery stores still either stamped prices in ink on cans and boxes, or applied little stickers to them with prices printed on them.

I'm sure everybody who was grocery shopping at the time was used to seeing items with multiple price-tags, one applied on top of another, or old prices blacked out with a Magic Marker. 

A can of beans, for example, sitting on the shelves for three months, would've started out at 16 cents, then covered over with 19 cents, then a third sticker saying 25 cents, and then a fourth sticker saying 29 cents, and so on.

And through Lincoln drove caravans of the late 1970s version of "Okies," those desperately unemployed, their families and possessions stuffed into large older sedans and station wagons, as they fled the rust belt states, hoping to find work in places such as Texas or California.

We called them the "black license plate people," as that was the color of Michigan license plates at the time, but they were also from Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and somesuch.

I'm sure everybody else noticed it at the time, all these unemployed going south or west, but nowadays it seems as if no one remembers them.  And there were lots of them.
Title: Re: What should my wife do with her money?
Post by: njpines on February 17, 2015, 11:03:40 AM
There were also some sweet potatoes, carrots, and butternut squash in it as well.  I'll PM you the recipe.

Where's the kale???   :-)
Title: Re: What should my wife do with her money?
Post by: BlueStateSaint on February 17, 2015, 12:52:48 PM
Where's the kale???   :-)

In the effin' produce section of the local Hannaford. :tongue:
Title: Re: What should my wife do with her money?
Post by: J P Sousa on February 17, 2015, 03:52:02 PM
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  The Republicans suffered minor losses in the 1982 mid-term elections, as the public forgot who'd gotten us into this mess in the first place, and had expected big changes like, really fast.
 

I remember (for some reason) Reagans words when democrats complained in March of 1981, two months after Reagan's inauguration, that Reagans policies were not working; Reagan said, "my policies are not working because they will not go in to effect until October 1, 1981 the beginning of the fiscal year.......we are still operating under Jimmy Carter's fiscal policies".   :lmao:

Reagan was NOT afraid to call a spade, a spade like so many republicans.
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Title: Re: What should my wife do with her money?
Post by: JohnnyReb on February 17, 2015, 04:06:17 PM
What should my wife do with her money? ....leave your sorry ass.
Title: Re: What should my wife do with her money?
Post by: obumazombie on February 17, 2015, 04:43:50 PM
I remember (for some reason) Reagans words when democrats complained in March of 1981, two months after Reagan's inauguration, that Reagans policies were not working; Reagan said, "my policies are not working because they will not go in to effect until October 1, 1981 the beginning of the fiscal year.......we are still operating under Jimmy Carter's fiscal policies".   :lmao:

Reagan was NOT afraid to call a spade, a spade like so many republicans.
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Walker just got blamed for laying off teachers a year before he was elected.
Title: Re: What should my wife do with her money?
Post by: Big Dog on February 17, 2015, 05:14:54 PM
Walker just got blamed for laying off teachers a year before he was elected.

Damn, he's good!