New Money Poll

What is good money?

  • 50,000

    Votes: 6 7.4%
  • 65,000

    Votes: 2 2.5%
  • 80,000

    Votes: 5 6.2%
  • 95,000

    Votes: 6 7.4%
  • 110,000

    Votes: 13 16.0%
  • 125,000

    Votes: 11 13.6%
  • 140,000

    Votes: 8 9.9%
  • 155,000

    Votes: 8 9.9%
  • 170,000

    Votes: 5 6.2%
  • 250,000

    Votes: 17 21.0%

  • Total voters
    81
  • Poll closed .
As any with any statement like that, I wonder what their criteria were. I know people on minimum wage that think that all their needs are being met.
 
i guess it depends on how you measure success, my wife makes 8 bucks an hour and she thinks shes a big shot. but shes happy. im also a late late bloommer. im in my 50's. but then again im still in the army, so i wash part time. i remember what my 1st sgt. said 23 years ago. you can be a poop shoveler , well he didn;t say poop, all your life, as long as you invest in a retirement plan early you can retire well.
 
I think a lot of money is different for everyone...Who on this post would not want to earn more than $250,000 per year? I sold a trucking company up in N.Y. before i relocated to FL, and if you didn't make at least $250,000 + a year it was hard to survive.
 
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I think i will change my name to Jose Emanez, go on public assistance get me some food stamps and free medical.

Then i will get me an off the books job and pay no taxes and just be a burden on society...Oh yea and then buy a Beemer...LOL
 
i guess it depends on how you measure success, my wife makes 8 bucks an hour and she thinks shes a big shot. but shes happy. im also a late late bloommer. im in my 50's. but then again im still in the army, so i wash part time. i remember what my 1st sgt. said 23 years ago. you can be a poop shoveler , well he didn;t say poop, all your life, as long as you invest in a retirement plan early you can retire well.

Unfortunately my good friend (age 65) is now back working in Nebraska during the winter. He was a union iron worker and saved religiously since 1980. He had $480,000 in stocks and mutual funds 5 years ago. His wife was scared to take it out because her broker told her the downturn was just temporary. They were here this fall and their savings was down to $212,000. They haven't used any of it yet, just moved it around as the broker told them to do.

My dad told me to get a good job and stick with it so I could retire. He was on the job 19 years when he fell off a light pole and destroyed his back. (the fall was so bad it shortened one leg by 3/8 of an inch.) Not only did he not get worker's comp for 2 years while they argued about it, they only gave him social security since he didn't make the 20 year mark. So much for sticking with a good job till retirement.

Anything can happen. All we can do is trudge along and do the best we can.
 
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