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Fortunately, we could write checks to finish the mortgage and both car payments ( interest is zero on one and almost nothing on the other).
My small arsenal is financially much better than money in the bank. Guns have been good to our family. They educated our three kids debt free. I think we will hold on to those remaining. Not to say that there might not be a swap or two and perhaps an addition here and there.
Jack
"Do not blame Caesar, blame the people...who have...rejoiced in their loss of freedom....Blame the people who hail him when he speaks of the 'new, wonderful, good, society'...to mean ,..living fatly at the expense of the industrious." Cicero
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So CT - got a status update?
I have been thinning my collection too. Just to have emergency cash on hand and I am not using most of the stuff. My wife is even telling me not to thin anymore and I am a long ways away from 9 pieces. She fears I will replace everything again (she may be right...)
Part of my motivation is to minimize up keep of the guns and I'm tired of "stuff" as I clean up my parents estate . My thought is... will I need all this stuff when I retire in 15 years?
We all have our motivations. I see selling guns to pay for a tractor to improve my hunting land may be a better deal.
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Other than that, How was the show Mrs. Lincoln?
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I didn't realize how broke I was until I paid my debt off.
As long as you're spending other people's money (credit cards) you never run out.
When it came down to spending only what I had, that's when reality set in.
By the way, in case you missed it, Jeremiah was a bullfrog.
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Just made my LAST non-mortgage loan payment...paid up the LAST of the(current) hospital bills, my credit cards all have a ZERO balance....first time without consumer debt since I was 19(21 years!!!!)....feels great!!!
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I don't always shoot Mausers, but when I do...I prefer VZ-24s.
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We have enough guns to pay off the house and car (our only debts). As I see it we gain nothing. Loose debt but also loose assets. I like our guns.!
Jack
"Do not blame Caesar, blame the people...who have...rejoiced in their loss of freedom....Blame the people who hail him when he speaks of the 'new, wonderful, good, society'...to mean ,..living fatly at the expense of the industrious." Cicero
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