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I'm so confused.....



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I think things have worked out for me.Retirement and Social Securtity combined,I hope I can make it for the rest of my life as long as I watch my spending.

2 weeks with cash on hand....

3-4 month with the emergency cash fund.

6-8 years with my long term savings...

Normally about a year.

Right now about three months.

Barring unforeseen disasters. Furnace dying, death in family, etc.

maybe there's too many choices of food on the shelves?

if there were fewer choices in less attractive packages would the prices decline?

what i'm asking is, are we putting too much emphasis on attractive packaging and not enough on pricing?

pricing is the key right? bump it up a quarter of a percent and trade in that old cadillac for a new one?

Slide over.

It seems like you should be able to survive off the inventory for a while.

Thanks for sharing. Remember to get those pubes from between your teeth before the infection sets in this time. Diligence!

I've got enough in savings to go 5 months without a paycheck. And I'm a poor bastard compared to these govt. workers who are in dire straits so I have little sympathy for them.

I think mr sam refering to my post and fireball lol.. fireball basically cut and pasted deflaves April fools joke from a few yrs ago..

This ^^^^^Without selling houses and property. 😎

Yes.

Alaska legalized pot?

My brother is the manager of a credit union in rural Alberta. Most of the clients are farmers. Many are in the same situation as you Jim, if not worse. Some are heavily leveraged and don't seem to understand how to manage credit. They are one more bad year away from having to sell land to stay afloat. It is very sad, although some have made very poor decisions.

For instance, if you are heavily leveraged, maybe you don't need a new pickup (purchased with money you told the bank you needed for input costs), especially a Platinum model F150 (true story), or if you do need one, an XLT would do. Another, instead of servicing his debt (over a million), bought a $480,000 combine when he had a perfectly good combine only a few years old. He went to my brother to ask for money to refinance his debt because he was going to be in default. The credit union would not give him any more money. He had to sell assets (land) to survive. Credit union made it very clear that he had to service his debt before buying equipment etc (remember he had a good combine).

Farming is risky business, but you have to make good decisions to help yourself out. At one point I wanted to farm/ranch, but we had no money to get started. I'm glad I didn't because I can't handle the uncertainty of farming. I'm also adverse to debt. Can't stand it.

It takes a very unique individual to make it as a farmer. I admire them greatly.

I've made it over a year on multiple occasions.

Average recession is about 2 years, so, that's a good level of savings to target.

You speak from experience?

oh, it's an april fool's joke alright. been going on for ages. how many times has our gov't been "shut down" in the last 20 years?

if a true shutdown occurred, and disregarding the high theatrics, wonder what might happen next?

noone would lose their job. the congress would survive, and others.

at least the roman empire never extended north of the rhine, and above hadrians line.

april fools, like halloween are gaining in importance. flags on fire trucks are in decline?

Is this fireballs wife posting? If so leave that man if you have to resort to buying marijuana from Alaska. I'm sure you can find a good man in Oregon or maybe Idaho..

I don't even understand his post.

It's about me?

I've seen that happen around here. More than once.....


Jim might have a new snowmobile and dirt bike(?) but there ain't no new Platinum or combine...


All we need is a little rain and the money will be back!
(well that and a decent price for grain and beef)


And when it comes back save it until the next dry spell.


But some farmers wanna be fancy pants, especially when they get in competition with the neighbors.