Getting myself set up at home, debt free.

[Dorothy Mae]

Shopping for myself to get myself set up at home, this is what I bought.
I just moved in today.

A very Rural Home in Duncannon, Pennsylvania for $80,000, cash outright, I got the deed too.


In my Garage Shed, all delivered.


A Red and Black Lifan KPR 200 Motorcycle.
A Red and White Lifan KPX 250 Dirtbike.
Both 5 speed hand clutched.

A Black Bintelli Beast 150 Scooter.
A Black Bintelli Scorch 150 Scooter.
Both Automatics.


In my home, from Amazon.

A Reclining sectional.
A Reclining sofa.
A Reclining loveseat.
A Recliner chair
A Living room chair.
A Day Bed.

A Living room set containing an Entertainment Center, two book shelves, two tall cabinets, a Coffee Table, end tables, console table, accent cabinet and magazine rack.
A Curio cabinet.

A Home office set with desk, Hutch, filing cabinet, and chair.

A Dining room table with a China cabinet with hutch and server and a Kitchen table, pantry, bakers rack, Microwave stand with cabinet and hutch.

A Bedroom set with a King size bed, serta king size mattress, 4 dressers, two chests of drawers, two night stands.

A wardrobe armoire, an entertainment center, four standing wall shoe racks, a bench, two futons, a coffee table and end tables and an armoire desk and chair.

All LG appliances, and Calphalon small appliances...
All LG electronics, Sony playstation 5 and HP all in one computers and laptops.



In my other bedroom, I put in a library, with bookshelves.

I took my Lifan KPR200 motorcycle out for a ride.

I went to the outback steakhouse, where I got myself a Steak with onions and mushrooms, Loaded mashed potatoes, steakhouse macaroni and cheese, four lobster tails, and Shrimp and Chicken wings and two Burgers.. and a Salad..
And cake.

Went to the gas station and got myself a bag of ice and a two liter cherry coke, and a Mikes hard iced tea..
And brought it home.
It was the best meal in a while that I have had.

The bikes performance, it's not the ultimate anything, but it blows away by far any scooter I ever driven, including my two new Bintellis.

Not something I'd like to slip on a little bit of oil or ice, or a curb on...
I can actually travel on this.
Lol

I was kind of glad that someone is doing OK materially. Sort of blessed me. I’m alarmed to hear of the growing homeless in the US and Australia as greedy landlords raise the rents sometimes by 50%.

I actually don’t think you’re boasting. Sounds like you’re grateful. If someone says they bought a modest 2 bedroom house in the middle of nowhere in the US, that’s not boasting. If they repeatedly tell us they wrote two books, that’s boasting. Food and housing are NEEDS we have had to work for as arranged by God for since Genesis. The writing of books is not.

 

[eddif]

2 Peter 2:15
While not clear to me, I feel this is the area of revelation that answers the situation. The animal spoke.

eddif

 

[Luminous_Rose]

Why thank you for rubbing this all into my financially poor face

anything else you plan to do today?

 

[eddif]

I was kind of glad that someone is doing OK materially. Sort of blessed me. I’m alarmed to hear of the growing homeless in the US and Australia as greedy landlords raise the rents sometimes by 50%.

I actually don’t think you’re boasting. Sounds like you’re grateful. If someone says they bought a modest 2 bedroom house in the middle of nowhere in the US, that’s not boasting. If they repeatedly tell us they wrote two books, that’s boasting. Food and housing are NEEDS we have had to work for as arranged by God for since Genesis. The writing of books is not.

This is all perhaps brought to us lately by our favorite virus. Some areas paid health workers outstanding amounts over the last few years. Right location, right energy level, maximum hours worked, and outstanding income.
Or
Took income away or devalued the income you had.

This is a trying time for some.

Some are seeing boom profits, but others face disaster.

In the natural, it is hard not to smile with prosperity.

In the natural it is hard not to cry.

eddif

 

[eddif]

Abraham chose a tent for shelter, while seeking a city whose builder and maker was God.

I made some wrong choices.

eddif

 

[Corn Pop]

Why do people have a cry some people have more than them?.

I mean if someone works hard and buys a house with it and some toys what's wrong with that. That's a honest dollar.

Nothing is free. What do people expect, everything for free?. No one going to build you a house and give you a vehicle and make you clothes to wear for nothing. Why would they. Work hard so lazy people can live in comfort and complain. Cry babies expect everything to be free and have a cry when someone has more than they do. Jeleous and envy,.


What do people expect, everyone to work hard all day everyday for no reward and just be broke and miserable because it's unfair I'd they are not?

 

[eddif]

Abraham was wealthy and owned masses of flocks and gold. He was a successful businessman.

Maybe Abraham did chose a humble dwelling I don't know, but Elon he's wealthy and chose a tiny little cabin to live in. He's like basically the richest dude in the world and lives in a tiny home.

Ever consider he is seeking God and that is where the riches came from?

He was looking for a city built by God.

eddif

 

[Luminous_Rose]

If someone works hard and buys a house and everything, that's their thing. Good for them.

If someone gets a good house, buys whatever they'd like and then jump online to a Christian forum to BOAST about it, that's the problem.

How do we know the OP's dollars are honest anyway? I mean, this could be someone making stuff up, someone making an honest living, or someone buying all this stuff with dishonest money. Perhaps this person got a nice inheritance. Maybe they grew up in a rich family, never having to worry about a dime. Do you personally know the OP?

I love that phrase, "When the money is honest, you have to work twice as hard." It's true! Honest dollars are harder to earn...

Jeremiah 9:23-24 NIV:

This is what the Lord says:

“Let not the wise boast of their wisdom
or the strong boast of their strength
or the rich boast of their riches,

but let the one who boasts boast about this:
that they have the understanding to know me,
that I am the Lord, who exercises kindness,
justice and righteousness on earth,
for in these I delight,”
declares the Lord.


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It's a bit frustrating coming from a perspective of someone who grew up poor and then middle class.

As a kid, my mom stayed at home with us and I wouldn't have traded that for the world. As a result, my father worked hard at his job while we were all on government assistance while living in a mobile home with 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom. We had what we needed to get by. We still ate three meals a day and enjoyed playing outside the majority of the day. My dad worked hard and went back to college to get his dream job. He made more and he loved his job, although we weren't rich. When my parents decided all 5 of us needed the upgrade, they bought a house. They couldn't afford it at first, but the price eventually came down quite significantly that they could put their bid in. My mom was screaming with excitement when we got the letter in the mail saying that we got the house. It was a 3 bedroom/2 bathroom. I had to share a bedroom with my sister until she moved out when she got to be an adult. Many times we shared a full or a twin sized bed. I had my own room for about a year of my life and that's it. If my parents wanted a new car, we always went to check out the lemon lots because anything to get us from point A to point B was ideal. Furniture was secondhand 99% of the time. Game consoles were a luxury, if we got one, all of us kids had to share it. We had a family computer as well, all shared. No one had their own computer or gaming system.

While going out to eat did happen, we had to go cheap, and the rule was we never order dessert (unless it was free due to a birthday or somehow on the house).

I have been called "poor" for being "middle class" by kids that had parents that made more than I. I've taken my kids to a nice park only for other kids to comment on how poor my husband and I must be because my child's shoes were "cheap."

After marriage, my husband and I were financially abused by his parents for years, and at times we wonder if we still are. Car sabotage (not always talking $10 here and $20 there, more like $1k - $5k each time the car breaks down), which conveniently occurs around tax return time and major gift-giving holidays. His parents sending all their grocery money to help their idiot adult son in another state that's been skipping out on his university classes, but oh, he really needs the money because what mommy sent before "wasn't enough." So, she sends the money, makes the whole family starve and then my husband and I can't let the minor children in the house starve so we buy groceries. Then, their parents saying, "We have no money to help," when they do, and somehow fork out 3 grand for something the very next day. Where is the money coming from? There were many other instances where we got so sapped of finances by them that it has taken us years to recover and we're barely at recovery.

We've moved about 14 times in the past 12 years just to keep up with affordable rent prices. We recently had to vacate a home that has been totally destroyed by mold...so now we're paying a mortgage and rent. We both have chronic illness, which saps money.

Like, some people have all the luck I guess with money, but many don't realize how close to homelessness we are. It only takes one divorce, one house fire, one mold problem, one lost job, one missed payment, one bill that's too high, etc. and you're on the street....

What can go wrong with this picture of money and pride? Hm, I wonder...

 

[Dorothy Mae]

One hears of those who faced a disaster of some kind either their choice, another’s choice or accident that cost them everything. I doubt very many are immune.

 

[Dorothy Mae]

If someone works hard and buys a house and everything, that's their thing. Good for them.

If someone gets a good house, buys whatever they'd like and then jump online to a Christian forum to BOAST about it, that's the problem.

How do we know the OP's dollars are honest anyway? I mean, this could be someone making stuff up, someone making an honest living, or someone buying all this stuff with dishonest money. Perhaps this person got a nice inheritance. Maybe they grew up in a rich family, never having to worry about a dime. Do you personally know the OP?

I love that phrase, "When the money is honest, you have to work twice as hard." It's true! Honest dollars are harder to earn...

Jeremiah 9:23-24 NIV:

This is what the Lord says:

“Let not the wise boast of their wisdom
or the strong boast of their strength
or the rich boast of their riches,

but let the one who boasts boast about this:
that they have the understanding to know me,
that I am the Lord, who exercises kindness,
justice and righteousness on earth,
for in these I delight,”
declares the Lord.


---------------------

It's a bit frustrating coming from a perspective of someone who grew up poor and then middle class.

As a kid, my mom stayed at home with us and I wouldn't have traded that for the world. As a result, my father worked hard at his job while we were all on government assistance while living in a mobile home with 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom. We had what we needed to get by. We still ate three meals a day and enjoyed playing outside the majority of the day. My dad worked hard and went back to college to get his dream job. He made more and he loved his job, although we weren't rich. When my parents decided all 5 of us needed the upgrade, they bought a house. They couldn't afford it at first, but the price eventually came down quite significantly that they could put their bid in. My mom was screaming with excitement when we got the letter in the mail saying that we got the house. It was a 3 bedroom/2 bathroom. I had to share a bedroom with my sister until she moved out when she got to be an adult. Many times we shared a full or a twin sized bed. I had my own room for about a year of my life and that's it. If my parents wanted a new car, we always went to check out the lemon lots because anything to get us from point A to point B was ideal. Furniture was secondhand 99% of the time. Game consoles were a luxury, if we got one, all of us kids had to share it. We had a family computer as well, all shared. No one had their own computer or gaming system.

While going out to eat did happen, we had to go cheap, and the rule was we never order dessert (unless it was free due to a birthday or somehow on the house).

I have been called "poor" for being "middle class" by kids that had parents that made more than I. I've taken my kids to a nice park only for other kids to comment on how poor my husband and I must be because my child's shoes were "cheap."

After marriage, my husband and I were financially abused by his parents for years, and at times we wonder if we still are. Car sabotage (not always talking $10 here and $20 there, more like $1k - $5k each time the car breaks down), which conveniently occurs around tax return time and major gift-giving holidays. His parents sending all their grocery money to help their idiot adult son in another state that's been skipping out on his university classes, but oh, he really needs the money because what mommy sent before "wasn't enough." So, she sends the money, makes the whole family starve and then my husband and I can't let the minor children in the house starve so we buy groceries. Then, their parents saying, "We have no money to help," when they do, and somehow fork out 3 grand for something the very next day. Where is the money coming from? There were many other instances where we got so sapped of finances by them that it has taken us years to recover and we're barely at recovery.

We've moved about 14 times in the past 12 years just to keep up with affordable rent prices. We recently had to vacate a home that has been totally destroyed by mold...so now we're paying a mortgage and rent. We both have chronic illness, which saps money.

Like, some people have all the luck I guess with money, but many don't realize how close to homelessness we are. It only takes one divorce, one house fire, one mold problem, one lost job, one missed payment, one bill that's too high, etc. and you're on the street....

What can go wrong with this picture of money and pride? Hm, I wonder...

I don’t know what to say to people who have relatives bleed them dry. That must be difficult.