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on 5/3/2008 7:01 PM aspasia said the following:

Well, it's not as bad as some others who espouse settling all disputes with a gun.

I prefer to donate anonymously. Most of my estate is willed to a (National) charity, but they won't know it until I'm gone and I like it that way.

My attitude, as others have mentioned in thread, is to make telemarketing, junk mail, spam etc more costly to the initiators. They would not do it if there were no cost benefit. This "juvenile" thing is one of my milder approaches ;)

Listen, I hate those miserable bastards as much as the next person, but let's be realistic: If you have responsibilities toward others -- family, relatives, whatever -- you have to kiss the credit folks' *** in order to get a good interest rate in case you need an emergency loan for medical or other reasons, or you want to buy a house, or...

I think it's sickening that they base their ****ing scores on mechanical data that don't necessarily reflect the borrower's true repayment status, but who said life is fair!

Since you say you're staying out of the game, more power to you! How anybody survives in today's America w/o borrowing is a source for wonderment and admiration.

Aspasia

"Percival P. Cassidy" wrote in news:7_%Sj.4$ snipped-for-privacy@newsfe02.lga:

The ones with postpaid business reply envelopes:

Load them up. I mean REALLY load them up. Stuff other junk mail in them. I've torn up cereal boxes, dumped ash trays, scraps of wood & metal, twisties, whatever is around. Nothing illegal, dangerous or unhealty, etc. that could come back at you. Make it VERY fat and heavy till you need wide package tape just to keep it from bursting open. They have to pay the postage for overthick & overweight.

Make sure their junk mail is in there in tact with your address.

aspasia wrote in news:481ca282$0$3355$ snipped-for-privacy@roadrunner.com:

Also, the more cards you have the higher the probability of identity theft.

aspasia wrote in news:481d036e$0$7708$ snipped-for-privacy@roadrunner.com:

I live in an old mobile home I paid off in 1993 and drive Mercedes Benz cars running on used veggie oil from Chinese Restaurants, a '73 220D I fully restored and '83 300TD turbocharged diesel wagon. "Old Sarge", my

No car payments No house payments No FUEL BILLS, either! virtually no taxes because mobile homes, like my old cars, DEpreciate just awful...at the tax office where it really counts!

I'm too old (62 now) to worry about driving a chick magnet, any more... (c; That saves a PILE in itself!....hee hee....

LIFE is GOOD!

Red Green wrote in news:Xns9A93D25F4F9E0RedGreen@

Oh, I hope so. It's NOT MY MONEY they're stealing!.....(c;

Love your CBC TV show, Red. Best comedy on the planet!

Larry wrote in news:Xns9A93DBAE27613noonehomecom@

The skits in B&W narrated by Red are a fav of mine.

Hey, Larry, your life style IS a chick magnet -- for the right kind of chick.

Move over, man!

Aspasia

I'm a worthy charity, send me cash. No ID required ;)

Free men own guns - www(dot)geocities(dot)com/CapitolHill/5357/

I just hand the phone to my daughter and say 'it's for you"; she LOVES to talk on the phone ;)

Free men own guns - www(dot)geocities(dot)com/CapitolHill/5357/

I was discussing similar things with a friend the other day. I mentioned that I have lived in the same house for 20 years (the mortgage is paid off) and the kids are in their 30s (and they are paid off). It is amazing the amount of money those two things alone free up.

That's happened with me too. For one thing, I never contribute to PBS. Someone gave a relative of mine a "gift membership". It took a long time before they stopped mailing and calling.

Dick

Some people improve their fibbing ability with age too ;-)

-- larry/dallas

"SteveB" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@news.infowest.com:

Back in 2001 I went looking for a used pickup and ended up with a 1996 MLC. More specifically, a Red 1996 Mitsubishi 300GT. Mamma was not impressed. Me and mamma are no longer me and mamma. Wonder why??? But I stil have the Mitsu.

Anyway, oh yea you would see the chickies lock on to it from a distance. Then when I got close enough and they could see the driver the faces changed. Swear I could hear them thinking what a frikkin' waste. Could have pissed em off and yelled out the window "It's paid for too!".

Well now since the thing seems to be little s*it cars with runway lights, bicycle tires, some kinda big O muffler that sounds like a dirt bike and billion watts booming from inside, I don't even get locked on any more. Maybe it's just cause I can't see beyond 100 ft any more. I don't know.

Red Green wrote in news:Xns9A94D61B74991RedGreen@216.168.3.70:

BTW, MLC=Mid Life Crisis :-)

Kurt Ullman wrote in news:kurtullman- snipped-for-privacy@70-3-168-216.area.spcsdns.net:

I've been debt free since my last wife left me in 1992 for something she THOUGHT she liked better, but didn't. He didn't last as long as I did (17 years).

I'd like a new boat, but am unwilling to become a slave, again, to own one. What would be the point....