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Don't let the world pass you by!!!
pabooger
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Saxon's post has got me thinking! Now Im not the sharpest crayon in the box, but I have made my mistakes and I do try to learn from them!
Here is my opinion on the money issue take it for what it is worth!
Ma and I both work in a knife factory, for this area we make good money! We both take home around $36,000 a year. Now that may not seem like much, but you have to consider the area we live in! We live in a rural area, where you can still buy land for $500 an acre, you can buy a damm nice home for $40,000! Taxes around here are low! I think we pay around $900 total for all our taxes, school, local , and property! Town water is all you can use for $15 a month, sewage is $35, and garbage is $8.
I have friends that live in more populated areas, that make alot more money, they live in a similar house and paid three times what I paid for mine! They do not live any more extravigant than we do!
As I get older, it is nice to have money! But you know what the times I remember the most were the hard times, we didn't have as much but what we did have, met more! 20 years ago I thought I was going through hell, and I wanted more! There were problems and stress, but as I look back these were some of the best times of my life!
People! Some times we get so wrapped up in what we want, and what we think we need, that we let the really good things that we already have slip by till there gone!
I would give all the Money in the world to still be able to go hunting and fishing with my father, or to be able to pick up the phone and hear my Mother's voice again! Stop and enjoy what you have before the world passes you by!!
LIFES MOSTLY SCARS AND SOUVENIRS - Max Stalling
To Ride, shoot straight,and speak the truth
This was the Ancient law of Youth
Old times are past, old times are done:
But the Law runs true, O little son!
Here is my opinion on the money issue take it for what it is worth!
Ma and I both work in a knife factory, for this area we make good money! We both take home around $36,000 a year. Now that may not seem like much, but you have to consider the area we live in! We live in a rural area, where you can still buy land for $500 an acre, you can buy a damm nice home for $40,000! Taxes around here are low! I think we pay around $900 total for all our taxes, school, local , and property! Town water is all you can use for $15 a month, sewage is $35, and garbage is $8.
I have friends that live in more populated areas, that make alot more money, they live in a similar house and paid three times what I paid for mine! They do not live any more extravigant than we do!
As I get older, it is nice to have money! But you know what the times I remember the most were the hard times, we didn't have as much but what we did have, met more! 20 years ago I thought I was going through hell, and I wanted more! There were problems and stress, but as I look back these were some of the best times of my life!
People! Some times we get so wrapped up in what we want, and what we think we need, that we let the really good things that we already have slip by till there gone!
I would give all the Money in the world to still be able to go hunting and fishing with my father, or to be able to pick up the phone and hear my Mother's voice again! Stop and enjoy what you have before the world passes you by!!
LIFES MOSTLY SCARS AND SOUVENIRS - Max Stalling
To Ride, shoot straight,and speak the truth
This was the Ancient law of Youth
Old times are past, old times are done:
But the Law runs true, O little son!
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Eric
All American Arms Company
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No mone No Fun, your Son.
To Bad so Sad, Your Dad.[:0][:0]
I would give all the Money in the world to still be able to go hunting and fishing with my father, or to be able to pick up the phone and hear my Mother's voice again! Stop and enjoy what you have before the world passes you by!!
Tim just laid some real knowledge on everyone. I hope it sunk in![;)]
How you doin'!
Thanks Pa.[^]
My heros have always killed cowboys.
I say: "money doesn't buy happiness but poverty doesn't buy anything". [:)]
I found out that money doesnt really matter anymore. My wife has stood beside me thru some very rough times that woulda split up most couples. I have a wife that will always be there no matter what happens so in my mind I'm rich.
Seriously tho- I would give all my money for just one working kidney.
I am a firm believer in a person is what he made of his self and can't blame anyone else for anything they have become. I spent my life chasing the dollar and have a little money. Not rich just comfy. Guess what. I paid a price that I was too dumb to see until it was to late and that was the time I missed with my children. It was always "we will do it later" Late never came and now I lay in bed at night looking at their beautiful little faces and wishing for what can never be. If you are unhappy then light a fire under your butt and get moving! Above all if you have children don't lose sight of them for a moment because you can never regain it.
Pretty profound remarks coming from a "ridge runner." (I'll never get used to your fancy name for a redneck, haha.)
Charlie
"It's the stuff dreams are made of Angel"NRA Certified Firearms InstructorMember: GOA, RKBA, NJSPBA, NJ area rep for the 2ndAMPD. njretcop@copmail.com
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Why is it that our children can't read a Bible in school, but they
can in prison?
ATF,Eagle Guns
"we are but men... no more, no less..."
"The militia may be here destroyed by that method which has been practiced in other parts of the world before; that is, by rendering them useless - by disarming them."
timbroman@aol.com
"Poverty is just another form of Slavery"
Now, mind you, I'm not talking 'bout folks that can't afford a new car this year or have run up their credit cards, etc. to the point where they are living BEYOND their means. They HAVE money, they're just don't know how to MANAGE their money.
No, the kind of poverty I'm talking about is MORE than just financial, it includes a lack of education, lack of good-paying jobs in your area, companies only hiring temp workers for what s/b full-time jobs...these and other situations that make difficult or impossible to earn enough to keep a roof over your head and food on the table.
I'll close with a quote from my old boss who retired recently and gave me the best advice that I never heeded:
"It's not how much you make in a year that's important, Al. It's how much you can hang on to!"
I'll get down from the soapbox now...
Big Al
Dad retired yesterday, starts 2004 a free man.
KC
"Right is Right, even is everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it"
One of the secrets to living well, as far as money goes, is to 'need less'.
The 'money' part of your post is IMHO just a small part of us grasping as much of our lives as it passes us by.
Simple things, such as having lunch with friends and family are priceless. This is a time where we can share all that is good and not so good in our lives.
My buddies and their wives have a small routine every Saturday. We meet down at the local cafe and eat the buffet and just share our experiences of the previous week.
Along with that are stories of the good and bad times that we have shared in the past.
I bet that there is always room at your and Ma's dining room table for a friend. I have a sneaking suspicion that stories abound and it's probably O.K. to talk with your mouth full, because quiet dinner tables aren't happy dinner tables.
During this holiday season, we've seen many posts where something as simple as a child opening a present and time spent with all of our families are a priceless part of this world that we are grasping.
We proudly share pictures of our families because no amount of money could bring us the joy that our Wives, Husbands, Sons and Daughters bring us.
Today I went shooting with two good friends. Sure the shooting was fun, but the time we spent talking, leaning up against the pickup bed after the guns were all packed up was the real enjoyment.
Every time we enjoy moments with those that are close to us, we are grabbing a piece of this world as it passes by.
This my friend is priceless!
,,,[:)]sod
I still maintain that I was the happiest when I had a cane pole to fish with and a .22 to hunt with, even if it were tin cans.
I lost a great friend last year. Age 47, world famous, really, doctor who went all the way from little Old NoDak to John's Hopkin's along with television special appearances, radio talk shows, world jet hoping lecturer. He made more money in a year than most of us dream of making in a life time. I knew him well enough that if he could he would trade it all in for a few more years with his kids and wife.
Life in the fast lane is just that -- fast and stuck in a lane.
Saxon Pig, if you are following this thread, if I remember right you are a teacher at a college? It doesn't matter where or what level. Some of the most important people in my life have been teachers both in highschool and college. I have tried to go back and tell each one that was special to me and made a difference in my life that he or she help make me what I am. The riches we make are not money, but the positive things that we do to make the world a better place. No profession is better suited for that nor has a higher calling than that of a teacher. Stand tall and be proud. Those that flaunt that they have more money than you are not fit to wash your feet.