LTD, living the dream. Are you?
If so, what is the dream, and how'd you achieve it?
Seeking inspiration amongst the monotony of day in / day out, as I chase my own dream.
Forget the dream, that can easy turn sour on you.
Just live the best you can, day by day.
Don't get sucked in by adverts trying to make you spend money on stuff you don't need.
Always be positive, negativity feeds on itself.
Play it right and the dream will come to you.
Buy a beach house. Marry the girl of your dreams. And raise the smartest kids you've ever met.
Select to expand quotepsychojoe said..
Buy a beach house. Marry the girl of your dreams. And raise the smartest kids you've ever met.
You adopted? 
Sorry, I couldn't let that one lie.
Oh, dreams... I get it now.
Select to expand quotedecrepit said..
Forget the dream, that can easy turn sour on you.
Just live the best you can, day by day.
Don't get sucked in by adverts trying to make you spend money on stuff you don't need.
Always be positive, negativity feeds on itself.
Play it right and the dream will come to you.
Yeah, I think people spend half of their life thinking about what they see other people doing. I am sure there are far more content people in places which we would consider 3rd world. They don't need many material things.
I think the dream for lots of people at the moment is 'cheap electricity'. It won't ever happen.
Select to expand quoteFormulaNova said..psychojoe said..
Buy a beach house. Marry the girl of your dreams. And raise the smartest kids you've ever met.
You adopted? Sorry, I couldn't let that one lie.
Oh, dreams... I get it now.
Easy to forgive, since I don't get the joke.
Select to expand quoteFormulaNova said..
I think the dream for lots of people at the moment is 'cheap electricity'. It won't ever happen.
I wonder what the comparative value of electricity was back in the 60s. ie Price/kwh (including connection costs) vs hourly wage.
The nominal price was certainly lower, but almost nobody had anything more than a fridge & a fan to run.
EDIT Since no other idle fatherless fellow was going to answer the question, I did a rough search and dicey calculation.
In SA electricity cost 1.9c/kwh in 1966. The average wage looks to have been about $60/wk. The single aged pension was $676pa.
So the average wage now is about 30X what it was. My electricity costs 30.45c/kwh (lower at night), which is about 16X the 1966 price.
In other words, power is about half the price it was in real terms.
Select to expand quoteRetire2030 said..
LTD, living the dream. Are you?
If so, what is the dream, and how'd you achieve it?
Seeking inspiration amongst the monotony of day in / day out, as I chase my own dream.
Maaaaate,
You wanna know ? Well, it's your lucky day. Just don't tell anyone else our little secret.
Sssssssshhh. now.
50/50 mix of Comfort and Fluffy.
Yep, thats it. When you wash your underpants, add fabric softener, 50/50 Comfort and Fluffy mix for that extra special feeling.
Believe me, you'll be purring all day.
Select to expand quotedecrepit said..
Forget the dream, that can easy turn sour on you.
Just live the best you can, day by day.
Dreaming is the best way to achieve living the dream.
Retire2030 is obviously dreaming on retirement in 6 years time.
I think being financially independent, and not having to depend on working, and all the things that go with it to afford the lifestyle you aim for is a valid goal.
I dreamed for years of having an ocean view, and escaping this mortal coil of working, commuting, drinking/eating/stressing too much and all else that goes with city life.
Thankfully, a little investment I made back in 2016 and some other lucky events, made my dream all fall into place. Even if some things may, and have, turned sour - every single morning I wake up and get so much pleasure from my ocean view.
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Thankfully, a little investment I made back in 2016 and some other lucky events, made my dream all fall into place. Even if things may, and have, turned sour - every single morning I wake up and get so much pleasure of my ocean view.
I had relatives with panoramic sweeping views of the ocean. After living there for a long time they found the view of the local high-street was far more interesting. I can understand this as it does get boring. So much so that I decided against a place on the water. The seabreeze is strong enough a few streets back let alone on the front.
But if you like watching water, I guess it can be therapeutic.
Select to expand quoteFormulaNova said..
I had relatives with panoramic sweeping views of the ocean. After living there for a long time they found the view of the local high-street was far more interesting. I can understand this as it does get boring. So much so that I decided against a place on the water. The seabreeze is strong enough a few streets back let alone on the front.
But if you like watching water, I guess it can be therapeutic.
Agree: comparing yourself with others is the thief of happiness.
I will never tire of the view and have no desire to travel outside my postcode.
Select to expand quoteMr Milk said..FormulaNova said..
I think the dream for lots of people at the moment is 'cheap electricity'. It won't ever happen.
I wonder what the comparative value of electricity was back in the 60s. ie Price/kwh (including connection costs) vs hourly wage.
The nominal price was certainly lower, but almost nobody had anything more than a fridge & a fan to run.
EDIT Since no other idle fatherless fellow was going to answer the question, I did a rough search and dicey calculation.
In SA electricity cost 1.9c/kwh in 1966. The average wage looks to have been about $60/wk. The single aged pension was $676pa.
So the average wage now is about 30X what it was. My electricity costs 30.45c/kwh (lower at night), which is about 16X the 1966 price.
In other words, power is about half the price it was in real terms.
I sort of expected power usage to have fallen since the 70s or 80s, but then again, I have never checked. I guess AC would have taken a decent amount of power, but then again, bar heaters were common in the 70s and 80s too.
I think with CFLs, and then LEDs taking over, lighting surely must use less power than ever before. I remember that rooms would often have 100w incandescents, yet now I have a lot of light in a room with 4x 10w LEDs. The whole house is the same, so lighting usage would have dropped to 40% of what it would have been in the past.
Surely modern TVs use less power than the CRTs of the past?
You mention fridges. I am sure the older fridges seemed to run more, but I don't know if the newer ones are more efficient or not. Mechanical cooling has changed, but probably just the type of gasses more than any significant efficiency improvements.
I guess insulation may have reduced energy usage too, but I also suspect that people have gotten used to not feeling too cold or too hot.
So, based on your calcs that electricity is about half the price, why is it that energy costs seem to be in the media a lot now? Is it really the cost, or the need to go to renewables?
As for 'cost of living' I suspect that a lot of automatic "indexed to CPI" increases all over the board are the real reason that everything feels expensive. When people up the prices of services 'just because the CPI is this', surely it just makes the next inflation rate follow the previous one.
Untrue for those living in the Gaza strip.
Carantoc, can you officially fact check this and debunk Jimmy Car's assertion?
I havent had hot water since covid unless it came out of a black bag i left on the car roof.
Are you saying they had hot showers in gaza over 50 years ago?
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Carantoc, can you officially fact check this and debunk Jimmy Car's assertion?
Mmmmmm. I may need to conduct some skpetical and critical research in to it.
My immediate reaction was :
a) Jimmy Carr works with Rachel Riley. Yes, this is the best time ever.
b) myscreenname has proven to be correct more often than not. Perhaps this is a fantastic opportunity to prove Carantoc is more right than myscreenname about something.
So, yes I will now conduct some extensive internet research - probably mainly concentrating on Rachel Riley and avoiding the current value of bitcoin.....
I'll be bac.... whooa ****-me that's hot..
