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What is something you have never been really very good at saving?

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Posted - May 23, 2020

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  • 7280
    Stupid people from themselves   (Took most of my life to realize it was a waste of my time, but better late than never.).

    The human intellect cannot be put in possession of its object by some exterior agent that takes it there. There is for us no knowledge except our own knowledge, no truth except self-acquired truth

    (I actually learned that over 56 years and I have spent at least 55 years trying to find the exception to that rule with no luck---Guess it must be true.)

      May 23, 2020 5:49 PM MDT
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  • 5391
    We can’t re-order human nature, except with education, and we see how that has been playing out (!). Like serving steak to vegans. People have a right to be, to emulate (and to enable, i.e., vote for other) abject morons. 

    Time was, the Spartans would routinely toss their rejects off of a mountainside. Were those folks onto something? This post was edited by Don Barzini at May 24, 2020 6:30 PM MDT
      May 24, 2020 6:36 AM MDT
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  • 7280
    Perhaps we should revisit such ancient principles of wisdom...
      May 24, 2020 6:31 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    Basically,Private Ryan...I wasn't even born I think....:( 
      May 23, 2020 5:49 PM MDT
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  • 44619
    Nail clippings...they fly everywhere and I can't find them.
      May 23, 2020 6:10 PM MDT
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  • 5391
    Who saves them?  (Shudders)
      May 24, 2020 6:16 AM MDT
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  • 44619
    You mean you don't.
      May 24, 2020 6:18 AM MDT
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  • 5391
    I donate mine. 
      May 24, 2020 6:38 AM MDT
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  • 14795
    Was that mostly before the Coronavirus took hold ,when there was far less restriction on who and what flew where...? :( 
    Nail for me being blonde still ,that would be a real conundrum.  :( 
      May 24, 2020 6:43 PM MDT
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  • 1633
    My breath...

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      May 23, 2020 6:23 PM MDT
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  • 1633
    Room for dessert

      May 23, 2020 6:24 PM MDT
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  • 34283
    Time. 
      May 23, 2020 6:40 PM MDT
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  • 10026
    Damn good point.
    Even though time is man made, it does make time important while we are here on Earth.
    :) :)!!
      May 24, 2020 10:27 AM MDT
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  • 53509

     

      How is time man-made?  Time exists independent of anything that humans do or don’t do, and humans cannot create time, can only use it or attempt to manage it. 

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      May 24, 2020 11:49 AM MDT
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  • 10026
    In my world, time is a measurement of how the earth goes around the sun through space.
    Time and space.
    We measure that space by a word we know, in the English language, as "time."
    Take your birthday, for example.
    It measures the amount of 'time" the earth has been around the sun since your body has been on earth.
    It doens't measure how "Old" your soul is.
    It is simply a measure of space and the earth and you the body your soul is using to be on earth. 
    Big hugs and loves!
      May 24, 2020 12:02 PM MDT
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  • 13395
    Munee 
      May 23, 2020 7:09 PM MDT
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  • 10641
    A drowning person (could it be because I can't swim?)
      May 23, 2020 8:16 PM MDT
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  • 10026
    Oh my goodness, Shuhak~
    You already know how, my friend. 
    You started life swimming in your mother's womb. 
    Darling,
    You do know honey.  
    Please....
    It doesn't matter how old you are.
    Please....
    Give yourself the opportunity to know how nice it is to swim in water that will support you.
    You naturally float. 
    You CAN keep your head above water.  
    Doggie paddle!
    YOU CAN DO IT!!!
    I am sure of this!!!!!!!!
    Hugs and loves.
    If it helps any, when I am frightened of something I don't think I can do,
    I think of,  "the little engine that could."
    I wish I were there to help you.
    :) :)!!
      May 24, 2020 10:20 AM MDT
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  • 10641
    I was being humorous. 

    However, it is true that I can't swim.  It may have something to do with the fact that I'm kind of terrified of water.  How many people can say that they were declared hopeless by the American Red Cross in regards to learning to swim?  (*raises his hand*)  Even my sister (who is a good swimmer) tried to teach me once - in very shallow water no less - and I nearly drowned her.  Although she was quite sore (literally), I didn't leave any scars.  
      May 24, 2020 11:17 AM MDT
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  • 10026
    It is just my way to try and help people and animals along their way.
    When it comes to water, it is my friend.
    I would like everyone to not take it for granted or be scared of it.
    It supports you.  You need it and it needs you to flow and know. 

      May 24, 2020 11:57 AM MDT
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  • 5391
    Polar bears.
      May 24, 2020 6:15 AM MDT
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  • 5808
      May 24, 2020 5:52 PM MDT
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  • 10026
    My bank account.
    Living here is costing more and more beyond our idea of feasible retirement.
      May 24, 2020 11:18 AM MDT
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  • 53509

     

      I commiserate with you. I am also in California, and my wife and I are already contemplating to where we might live when we retire . . . (someday in the far future)


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      May 24, 2020 12:00 PM MDT
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