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I semi retired at 42.
Best move I ever made.
When you get to a certain age, you figure out that life is more than getting up and working 90-100 hours like a robot every week and dying in your 40 from stress.
That’s me .... YMMV.
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Quoted from jwilson:Helps to be rich.
I was gonna leave that alone ... but ...
Our family was poor when I was a kid. My old man worked three jobs to get ahead. And he did get ahead. He’s a simple meat and potatoes guy - I learnt from his work ethic and doubled down.
No inheritance.
No stock market windfalls.
No ripping people off.
Everything we have is made from working around the clock, carrying sofas on our heads, lifting heavy washing machines by ourselves, unloading whole 40ft HC containers of furniture with a hand truck by myself, in the weekends while all my mates were off drinking and partying and wondering why I did better than they did.
To the point where my doctor said if I kept doing it, I would be dead by 45.
So I stopped.
I had worked hard enough to get a good asset base. We live a pretty simple life day to day, and we get by nicely.
I’ll leave it there.
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Quoted from Jaybird815:I’ve come to the realization that working for others sucks balls, so I’m shifting gears(pun intended), I’m buying a rig w/tanker and hitting the road
Awesome move man, that’ll be cool! Great way to see the country.
Don’t forget to get a CB radio too.
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Quoted from cottonm4:Other than that and a mortgage on my house, it is cash all the way. If I can't pay for it I don't need it.
That is the secret recipe, right there.
So easy!! But so few people do it.
If you haven’t got the cash in your pocket, you don’t need whatever it is. Pretty easy rule to live by.
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Quoted from snaroff:Was definitely blind-sided by the high cost of healthcare...the healthcare insurance business is a total scam.
I can’t believe you guys haven’t all figured that out yet. 
Example - I’m sitting right now waiting in a breast cancer clinic in NZ with someone. The lady had a mammogram (free every year) in December, they saw something, contacted her to come back the next week, now surgery is scheduled for February.
Cost ... $0.
Why wouldn’t anyone want a system like that?
Mind boggling.
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Quoted from Kiwipinhead:Did you lose your FREEDOM RD?
Yeah, I turned it into a Led Zeppelin. 
3E700BB7-7D21-42A6-8DA9-CD76EBF6C81E (resized).jpeg8A87A51D-2E03-4DC3-8205-B5320ECFC7CC (resized).jpegQuoted from o-din:Looks like Plant lost a little something there.
Yeah, no need for big cocks on my pins. Lol
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Quoted from Vino:I’ve turned off most social media and tv.
That alone has helped my outlook tremendously.
A nice long walk doesn’t hurt either.
Mix up routines, it stretches the mind and helps the spirit.
This x 10
Do it.
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