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Bloody investors. Its all "me me me". My future. My happiness. My financial security. My nice retirement. My nest egg for the kids. Sheesh :rolleyes:

We get this from one half of the family - we have one of those people who likes to complain about everything but not do anything about it. And of course, if you're doing something good yourself, there's very little interest in it. The complained-about things only stop when the situation is...

In this house we call ourselves Euro-mutt Aussies. I'm German/Romanian/Pom, he's Ukranian/Pom, both born here, both sets of parents came here as small children. Offspring is ... indeterminable. Neither of us identify at all with the 'mother country' but some of the grandies still do. And I...

Over the last 8 years I've bought oodles of toys for her hoping that one day, she'll 'engage' with one and actually play with it. Barbies, stuffed toys, little plastic animals, a zillion and one games on the computer, lego, you name it. Until this year she spent most of her time sort of hovering...

Ah, but does she phrase it "I'm not unhappy if I don't not have anything to not complain about"? :rolleyes: And yes, when she's in a good mood she actually says she's not unhappy. This morning she told me her new conditioner "doesn't make my hair not harder to brush" ... and delicious food is...

I usually compare my daughter to a cross between Eeyore and Marvin the robot from the hitchiker's guide to the galaxy. She's very glum, and she talks all in negatives and double negatives and triple negatives, which makes her amazingly hard to understand sometimes. I'm still trying to convince...

I just want a passive income of around $20k (2 IPs, easy to do) so I can fart around doing things I enjoy all day. Small things amuse small minds. Mind you I already do this, but the fraction of my income that comes from 'things' vs the government isn't high enough. Working on that one. (also...