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What is the worst set back you have had? I have never had a real bad one. My friend in Madisonville had all of his cows stolen last Tuesday. About 30 cows, I have no idea of their value. I'm sure divorces have whipped a lot of guys asses. Just curious!

thankfully i've never had a bad one. but i have lived paycheck to paycheck in my life while eating mac and cheese and stovetop stuffing for almost every meal. it was a big motivator to make me save.

I and several others invested about $50,000 each into a business and a couple of insiders embezzled all the money, stole the company plane and skipped town to not be found again- no kidding. We never saw a dime of the stolen money. About the same time, my Mom got terminal cancer, was too young for Medicare and had no insurance. My Dad had passed so I had to help with that.

I'd still be hunting them.

More than a couple. I care not to discuss details, and tempt Mrs. Murphy's bastard son.... again.

No details, it still hurts, and it's a long story, but nineteen-eighty four was the worst year of my life, so far.

But, as they say, "If it does not kill you, it makes you stronger."

[quote=hanco].. My friend in Madisonville had all of his cows stolen last Tuesday. About 30 cows, I have no idea of their value...

Whoa! getting pretty western in that part of Texas these days!

Last year was a bit of a roller coaster. Started off the year by getting laid off and my wife was working part time with our bills considerably greater than income.

But it turned around, wife got a full time gig after a few months and while I was "underemployed" most of the year I was back to full time by year end.

In the big scheme of things, probably exactly what I needed at the time with a break from working full time and an insight into the desire to be working less than 1/2 time well prior to reaching "retirement" age.

Looks to be an ongoing problem there.

http://www.kbtx.com/content/news/String-of-cattle-thefts-hit-Madison-County-388214142.html

They need to start killin' some rustlers and leaving them by their cattle trailers.

That'll deter it.

The old ways are the best ways

i got drafted one time into involuntary servitude by the war criminal johnson.

but, i survived and i prospered. instead of a real job out of college in which i had paid my way, i got a 100 dollar a month assignment.

but that dude is in the grave. if i ever find it, i might choose to dig the corpse up and shoot it over and over. it might help, right?

after that debacle, i've done very well, once i got back to my native Georgia.

It's Texas, his brands are registered, be hard to sell at auction, but they don't check brands at rendering plants from what he said. They cut lock, drove in, used his loading pens to load them on trailer. They had horses.

30 head of good quality commercial 3-4 year old bred cows would worth +$50k.
(around here anyway)



No big losses yet, actually been a little lucky in the last few years. But the luck has taken a lot of work, it didn't come cheap time-wise.

need a gps implant on those critters

So bad that my bologna didn't have a first name.

Nothing very bad. Many more successes than losses.

Owned 5 or so equities over my life that went completely belly up - $0 residual value.

Bought a house once for $110K and sold it 12 years later for $124K. That is some bad performance for a home value but I didn't actually lose.

Probably the worst was I stayed in a job that I hated and was underpaid there for too long. I was getting interviews and trying to get out of it but didn't. Eventually circumstances changed and the job became much better.

theft happens. learn to live w/it.

there's 7 billion people walking around down here on the earth, and not all are honest.

in fact, a lot of the national ldrshp isn't honest, but we have to live w/it (or die).

beef is high priced in my neighborhood. horse meat is nearly un-available. but why, pray tell?

It is illegal ,in the US to sell horse meat. All feel good bs.

I joke with my wife often; if someone broke into this house, they would probably leave $50 on the kitchen counter.

yep. i suspect the beef, poultry, and pork farmers in the us would fight tooth & nail to keep out that source of potentially low-cost protein. folks could do w/o sufficient protein as a good thing, if it kept out commercial horse flesh.

and don't forget the piling on of turkey farmers, goat herders, and a few others.