You Know You Are Old When

[MossRoad]

YKYAOW the hardware in your spine cost more than you paid for your house and several vehicles combined.

 

[masseyrider]

YKYAOW the hardware in your spine cost more than you paid for your house and several vehicles combined.

YKYO when the 1st house I bought was a 3 bedroom brick bungalow with double garage on a large lot in a nice hood cost less than an entry level SUV.
I was 21 and friends thought I was nuts taking on that much debt while still in school.
It was paid off in less than 5 years.

 

[WinterDeere]

YKYO when the 1st house I bought was a 3 bedroom brick bungalow with double garage on a large lot in a nice hood cost less than an entry level SUV.

With the rate at which vehicle prices have been climbing the last 20 years, you don't even need to be that old to find this, anymore!

 

[Jstpssng]

With the rate at which vehicle prices have been climbing the last 20 years, you don't even need to be that old to find this, anymore!

I always get a kick out of these discussions. Last year I found an old check stub from 1982, when I was 2 years out of college. I pay more in taxes now than I made back then.

 

[NoTrespassing]

My wife was the same way, Drank like a villain when she was young and quit because the hangovers when in her forties. I never minded a hangover much. It was a sort of badge of honor working through it. We were usually well enough in the afternoon to start again.

A bad hangover can last 2 or 3 days now after a 12-hour bender on Memorial Day, Independence Day, or Labor Day. I think it's more about what I'm drinking than how much. Straight tequila doesn't hurt as bad as cans of premixed margaritas.

 

[masseyrider]

I always get a kick out of these discussions. Last year I found an old check stub from 1982, when I was 2 years out of college. I pay more in taxes now than I made back then.

Forget income taxes.
My property tax is more quarterly than I made in my first full year working.

 

[NoTrespassing]

I've never told anyone what I make other than "average wages", which is true. It's none of their business.

I had a coworker in IT that snooped into the accounting system to see what another coworker of ours was making. When he found out, he got highly offended and started complaining.

What he failed to grasp is that the higher paid coworker had a college degree, 20 years of experience in IT, 15 of which were at a steel mill and 5 as the director of IT at a local college, and he was hired in as management, while his resume was a high school diploma and silo construction. Nothing to do with IT. He was strictly for wire pulling and desktop support.

Didn't help that he constantly told everyone he was going to quit and open a shaved ice stand in Florida with his wife as soon as possible. So the company never invested in him. He could have taken advantage of the education benefit they offered (I did many times), but he didn't.

Anyhow, finding out what your coworkers make seems like a major pastime for many folks at about every place of employment.

Some of my wife's coworkers at the VA were discussing salaries. My wife didn't join in the conversation but figured out that she was making almost as much as the RNs with her LPN position. She had considered going back to school to get the RN degree but has thought better of it now. She has less responsibility for almost the same pay.

 

[masseyrider]

Some of my wife's coworkers at the VA were discussing salaries. My wife didn't join in the conversation but figured out that she was making almost as much as the RNs with her LPN position. She had considered going back to school to get the RN degree but has thought better of it now. She has less responsibility for almost the same pay.

Way back a girl friend accepted a promotion to manger. Real good money compared to the hourly people.
What she didn't realise was she was on salary and not paid overtime.
With the extra hours most weeks, especially around holidays, and responsibilities she was making less hourly than an entry level shlub.

 

[Alan46]

YKYO when the 1st house I bought was a 3 bedroom brick bungalow with double garage on a large lot in a nice hood cost less than an entry level SUV.
I was 21 and friends thought I was nuts taking on that much debt while still in school.
It was paid off in less than 5 years.

YKYO when the 1st house I bought was a 3 bedroom brick bungalow with double garage on a large lot in a nice hood cost less than an entry level SUV.
I was 21 and friends thought I was nuts taking on that much debt while still in school.
It was paid off in less than 5 years.

I just checked on Zillow, my first house I bought @21 in Milpitas ca. in 1967 was $24,500 check out the price now and the property tax is over 20 large! WOW

 

[NoTrespassing]

Way back a girl friend accepted a promotion to manger. Real good money compared to the hourly people.
What she didn't realise was she was on salary and not paid overtime.
With the extra hours most weeks, especially around holidays, and responsibilities she was making less hourly than an entry level shlub.

When I was hired at my current job of 33 years they offered me salary. I explained to the owner and his right-hand man that I could go down the street and make more by getting a little overtime as an hourly employee.

They left and went into another room to discuss the situation. A few minutes later they came back and offered me more money at an hourly rate than the previous salary offer. I never figured out what was said in the other room, but I took their offer. I still hear complaints to this day from salaried workers at this company.