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6:00 So she made it sound like her husband controlled the money, which is probably why they had any, and she wanted to buy a piano, but he wouldnt let her, which wasn't the case.
She paints a picture that he was a money hoarding ogre that gave not did anything for her.
Then she goes on to say for 24 years she had it all, vacations, trips to Hawaii, she could go buy herself $500 tennis bracelets, which to me is totally irresponsible, yet he was a bad man controlling the money and business.
She couldnt even land a job to do windshields, despite having done so much in her husbands business and couldnt even work a computer.
Wht the hell did sh do for him? She didnt really have the skill and makes it sound like she was the cornerstone if his business.
If she just made the effort to be the cornerstone of their marriage, she would have been a great asset. If she was more feminine and made him want to go home, she would have been better off.
These women will covince themselves of anything.
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I grew up in Hawaii on Maui. When I was young and hunted, we had wild pigs, most pigs brought with the first Hawaiians, later they bread with domestic. While abundant, they took some skill to get.
Later goats began to go wild and were another hunted animal.
I dont remember ever seeing a deer when I was young, but slowly over time axis deer were brought and now these days, there are hundreds in a herd, wandering and eating the farmers produce and feeding in the golf course grass.
In fact, there are more deer than food to feed them.
Yet hunters are not pushed heavily to harvest them.
They do so much damage that the state will occasionally fly over in helicopters and shoot them, leaving the meat to waste.
My main point is that feral animals abound in a place like Maui, yet they raise local beef, which is good, but they need to really advocate for hunters to reduce the populations and encourage people to eat deer.
My friend's sons hunt and make sausage with it, but laws restrict the resale of wild meat.
Its a crazy world.
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5:09 Hawaii was this way when I was growing up.
My friends were Filipino , Portuguese, chinese, Hawaiian, Japanese, Somoan, Tongan and some Caucasians called Ha'ole. Over a few decades and generations, alcohol, drugs, especially meth, caused this family lifestyle to fall apart.
The families had backyard barbeques, people played music, of course these adults were into drinking beer, by about 1975, the younger generations that couldn't drink legally, got into drugs. Because the money from real estate began to bring lots of mainlanders in, it also brought in high end drugs like coke.
The worst drug was meth, besides losing friends to it, it tore the family fabric to pieces.
Eventually the youngest kids grew up, never knowing the way it was. They only knew parents and family members that died, went to jail or were too busy lurking off to find drugs.
I got to watch this fall apart over my years.
I moved away, as many of my family members did too.
Now I would not expect to return to Hawaii and find anything that I could recognize or relate to
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I've been patiently waiting for the next video to come out. Your work bench reminds me of my work benches over the years. I had a radio repair shop for 14 years and customers would come in and out of the repair portion. Sometimes It was down right embarrassing to have to shove stuff precariously off to the side in order to put their equipment on the bench. As a one man technician shop, I always had multiple jobs going on. I tried to keep shelves in order to put my work back up while it waited for parts or to be worked on again, but my tools and test equipment would always be strewn across my bench. When I took a down day and organized them all, it sure felt good, but didn't last too long. I tried to get people that I hired from time to time to organize it for me, but that didn't work out. I guess my suggestion is to knock off the work an hour earlier and just clean and organize the bench and shop. It seems like there never is the time and customers, family and making money come first, but keeping an organized bench will have a good effect on you personally and actually help speed things up. Being retired, if I was close by, I would volunteer my time to help organize and clean up behind you. I know some may not like this comment, but I would really hate to see you burn yourself out. I can't imagine how you do everything that you presently do. You are the top YouTuber in my opinion.
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I'm 67. I was 50 when I got divorced from my second wife.
Frankly, I know I'm old now, but am in good health, not overweight, retired and while not rich, I have enough. Enough, as long as I don't get involved with a woman.
I really am not interested in having another family, so a single, older, especially if they are financially well off, would be nice, except, they look like my grandmother.
I didn't want to date a woman that looked that old when I was young and I really don't want to now either.
I would rather avoid women all together than date old and overweight women, mostly likely going to have health issues by now or a younger good looking lady that is so entitled and expects to just live off of me.
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Really glad you have a handle on this. Being in business for 14 years doing radio repairs, my wife unit, despite my worst efforts, tried to keep us in a level or better playing field.
I was the tech/salesperson and for me it was all about the job. I could not grasp the overall picture with profit margins and such.
We really struggled for many years, I did a lot of business and worked all the time, but when the business was sold and I went to work for a company and a regular pay check, we did okay, not because of the profit margins the business had, but the word of mouth and goodwill we had built up. Of course people don't like spending money and often ran a tab, authorized by us or just because they couldn't pay at the time, but most of the people realized that I did good and honest work for them and always spoke good of me to this day.
I would have done much better if I had the grasp of the business as you are revealing in this video.
I really wish you well in the future and hope you prosper.
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Being retired from Maui Electric in Hawaii, but living in Virginia now, I can say there is an awful lot more behind this going green than is commonly known.
I put solar on my roof here a year and a half ago and I am mostly immune to the rising costs for utility power.
This year I expect to finish it off and be 100%.
By doing that I can be considered a solar facility.
Basically net metering here is kilowatt for kilowatt. If I produce 10 kilowats and use 30, I am only charged for the 20 net difference.
As a 100% solar facility, I am going to be able to maintain that, maybe even get paid for over producing.
The new laws are trying to change the 1 to 1 ratio to as little as 1 to .5.
This means if I produce 10 kilowatts, they only have to credit me for half of it.
New solar customers by next year could be faced with the decrease in net credit, unless they set themselves up to produce 100% of their power and be designated a solar facility.
I am so happy I did this. I had power bills ranging from $200 to over $400 a month.
The money I spend now goes to pay to own my solar system.
I have a natural gas powered whole house generator running off the gas companies system. It costs me about $16 a month to excersie it 4 times a month.
I have had it kick in automatically during power outages and been one of the few houses with power.
Since I have that, I don't have a solar invertor battery system.
Without one and without a generator, I would lose power during an outage.
A solar system tied to the grid ensures I can use their power for nights and shady days, but I reimburse it on sunny days.
Adding batteries is a pretty costly addition and just having the solar meets my needs.
I use any and all the power I want, of course I use energy efficient lighting and appliances and also run a pool pump 24/7, but I have no real concerns about my bill going up, especially for most of the year.
A good feeling because the utility will have to raise their rates due to the cost of oil and coal, investing into green technology and maintaingna grid.
So the ones that only buy electricity will be the ones footing the bill.
I sort of feel bad that I am not in need of buying power and that is cost shared among those that do, but these days, you have to do what you can to survive the long term and the economic turmoil we are faced with.
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I grew up and spent most of my life on Maui. Early on I knew people that chose to live homeless, but over the years, the worst drug came out. Ice, meth or whatever you want to call it.
Over the years from my teens to now, I'm 67, I lost a dozen friends that withered away from meth use and most died young, others looked like living corpses. Skinny, skin diseases, loss of teeth, meth eventually just kills slowly if you are unlucky.
Before meth, there were other drugs and alcohol was a normal thing.
Unfortunately, alcohol took its toll on the generation before me and then became the norm for kids that were my age.
7:00 she's typical of many women on Maui, they have all these abilities and believe they are psychic.
That went back to the hippy daze. They wandered around Maui, believing everyone's fruit was provided for them from the universe, disregarding that those were people properties and most people would share if asked, but they don't believe they have to.
Many previously successful people in business, with all the toys and luxury, but it went to their head and soon they were so addicted to meth, cocaine or opioids to the point that they lost everything and became another homeless person on the beach or in the Keawe forest.
I have family on Maui, but migrated to a better life in Virginia and can't see ever going back to Hawaii to live.
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Had to jump into this. Both wives went to therapy with me, I was open to it and what it would bring out.
Both wives, walked out in the middle of the session and left me and the therapist scratching our heads.
The second one left, picking up her kids, not mine, from school.
I went home to find my refrigerator that I set outside after getting a new one and it was in front of the garage door.
According to her daughter, my second ex-wife pressed the gas and sent the refrigerator through my garage door.
She was also responsible for screwdriver and keying my brand new truck because I spilt a smoothie in our car that she drove.
After the divorce, my friend at the car agency called me about the car she got being totalled.
It turned out she launched it head first into a boulder.
She can't stand having anything from me, just as she didn't allow me to have things from my past. So she did it for the insurance and to get a new car to launch her new life.
A side note is she remarried within a year to some Aussie guy she met online and flew there to meet.
That went bad in a year and he called me to compare notes about how she treated us the same.
By the way, I was number four husband, lucky no kids like the three before, but she wanted. The Aussie was number 5 and after that divorce, she might have gotten a number 6 husband after.
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I'm noticing that many men, like myself would drink a lot in our youth and as we age, we tend to slow down and quit drinking. I haven't drank for years. I could if I wanted, I'm just tired of the hangovers and my body and mind going down.
Now I wish I never had.
Yet women my age are drinking wine as a regular daily activity.
This doesn't bode well for the women that are single mothers and still have those responsibilities. The kids suffer when their mother drinks.
My 2nd wife had an alcoholic mother. Her dad left her mom because of it, he didn't drink.
With a mean, unpredictable alcoholic mother, my ex took on her traits and was an evil lady, especially if she drank or took prescription meds.
Alcohol affects the children, whether mother or father, but in the elder years, men quit and women are miserable and drunk every night.
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I worked for myself and went to a utility, I retired just shy of 30 years, but the last few years I went out on disability for a few years.
As much as I still wanted to work and do projects coming up, it's a blessing to have gone out on disability.
The company at that point was quickly falling apart culturally. New supervisors that new nothing about the job they were hired for, just because they towed the line.
Upper management went through a bunch of switch outs and the company felt completely different.
Being a utility, the company is secure, but only wanted yes people and puppets.
It's no doubt that if I didn't have a health issue, I would not have lasted much longer.
Some left what was considered the best paying company by most people, yet as soon as people had a decent amount of years built up and retirement waiting, they left and went to the government, the next best paying job with benefits.
I've been retired now for many years and sure I wish I had a bigger retirement to live on now, but mentally and emotionally I would only have a few years left.
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My second ex probably had about 19 past relationships from what I could add up by her different stories. I had a previous wife, yet she was always on my and jealous, just imagining what I could be doing, which was nothing. Yet I never made an issue or pressed her for a full accounting of all her past. Her past also included other guys while she was married and even married men. She was always seeking men in power, military officers and such.
It took six years, but I made it out of that marriage, barely, scars and all. She remarried number 5 husband right after me, less than a year and within a year, worked him over and he called me to compare notes. Yep, she worked him the same as she did me and others before me.
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@QuantumStellar that, air conditioning steering and cv axle stuff used to be a mystery to me too. As I've watched YouTube and done the work myself, it's not so mysterious. We did attempt an automatic transmission repair on my Dodge Dakota, had it apart a couple times, but what I thought would be an easy fix, turned out to be more. I finally bit my lip and took it to the Mr. Transmission shop down the street. They rebuilt it and replaced the hoses and it still came down to a computer issue going into limp mode. I purchased a rebuilt computer and they programmed it to my Vin and it took care of the problem.
While I'm repairing the front end damage from an accident and have it down, I may tackle valve cover gasket replacements with the confidence Ray has instilled in me. Having watched him do some, I realize it's not that bad, I just need to move things out of the way to get to them. Some of the intake to the throttle body, hoses, wiring harness and fuel rails. Once I clear the way, it should be relatively simple.
I decided to film the whole thing for my YouTube. I have the disassembly up, but my phone is getting maxed out on storage at 128gb. May have to update it. I'm a storage hog. I like things available to me when I want them.
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Had to add that at a young age, probably any age, when people are somewhat introverted and shy in social situations, that's where alcohol does its dirty work. At 16 and no big social circle, introverted and then getting the first buzz from a beer, that tastes disgusting and is hard to get down anyways, it changes your brain chemistry. All of a sudden your social, talking up, people are laughing, probably at you for being a fool, but it feels like you are the life of the party.
A few more times struggling to quickly drink a nasty beer for the buzz, not the taste and then running with friends that just did the same, the world is unleashed. Having fun, doing stupid stuff and before long, you just can't wait for the next weekend or time to get a buzz and party on 😎 dude!
Before long, your body adjusts and your social life follows and you are chasing that buzz and that party that was so much fun, but they get fewer and further apart.
Next thing your old, drinking alone, just because you can't stand not drinking and don't know what normal is.
If you finally make it past all that and haven't drank for a year or more, suddenly it's a new world and you understand better how to maneuver in it and be happy.
Just don't start!
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Back when the sugar industry was running in Hawaii, Maui in particular, the owners of the mill, fields and a very big portion of Maui, named A&B, Alexander and Baldwin, the original families that amassed most of the real Este in Hawaii with a few other families, they laid off the field workers for two weeks every year around Christmas to lower their costs.
Later in the company magazine, I read where the person that set the lay offs up, made a huge bonus each year for laying them off.
So all these farm workers families, mostly Filipino, Japanese and Hawaiian had to tighten their belts every Christmas and New Years to get by. All while the money saved just went to the top executives. Not like it helped them become a stronger company.
Had they used that money to reinvent the farms from sugar to diversified agriculture, they would still be in the business.
Instead they shut it down and sold it to concentrate on their real estate developments in Hawaii.
Obviously making more money in real estate.
I don't live there after a lifetime there and the houses are WAY over what an average person can afford.
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America's enemies only have to sit back and be patient. These troubles will be the end to civilized countries.
I don't care who immigrates to our country, but there is a reason to go through the vetting process in order to sort the good from the bad as well as possible.
There are no guarantees that a vetted legal immigrant won't be a bad apple, but at least the countries know more about them, where they came from and how they plan to support themselves and add something good to our country.
For many years, immigrants have moved to various countries and added to the quality of not only their life, but others.
To just throw the doors open and allow the worst people entry, unvetted and with no way to track them in the country is ludicrous.
Many other countries wouldn't do that.
As an American citizen, law abiding and able to support myself, I have had trouble trying to visit my son and grandson in Australia.
The vetting process asked questions that I have to answer, so a minor issue with a very evil second ex-wife left a mark on me legally.
I had to go through hoops to get police and court records to show them for a visa.
The day they denied me from visiting and closed the case on me, is the day the police clearance arrived, clearing me of any wrong doing.
So I have to try again. If it wasn't for family in Australia, I wouldn't even bother trying to go, but my fear is it could affect my passport negatively.
So I will try again.
To see people just pouring into our countries and others, while people cry that everyone should be admitted, makes me sick to my stomach.
I too have noticed the difference as people come in illegally and yet qualify for more benefits than residents, elderly and vets.
I don't mind immigrants taking jobs, what I resent is they get away without contributing to our system. Social security that many of us elderly depend on is always at danger of going bankrupt and yet if all these people were legal and worked legally, there would not be issues with Social security becoming insolvent.
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I don't see how Newport News rates so badly? There are two pretty distinct areas between south and north Virginia.
I live on the northern side, close to Yorktown and bought a home in 2017. Housing prices have soared. My place is nearly $100k higher in value.
The school system is very well funded. Not to say all the schools are the best, but the bus system for schools is huge and being close to other cities, activities outside of NN are easy to get to. NN the city puts in a bunch of events, many free to attend. As of 2022 with things opening up more after the pandemic, I'm already looking forward to many events. Three big ones happened last weekend.
With the shipbuilding industry, NASA, the military, we have very good paying jobs and that's helping to grow the economy.
I lived most of my life in Hawaii. Of course living on the island of Maui sounds like a dream, but crime, drugs, schools, jobs are all an issue. Rent and home ownership is only for the very rich people from the mainland and other countries. Most kamaaina, children of Hawaii, tend to leave to attend school, find jobs and be able to afford a home.
I left a beat up block tile home that needed work, roofing, etc. By the time I left, it was almost a half million dollars. Not that that did me any favors because I couldn't afford it and lost it.
Newport News I got back into a 1.6 acre place, large home and able to raise animals and provide a place for a daughter and grandkids.
And realtors contact me almost daily because its worth so much.
I agree that places in south Newport and Portsmouth are bad in crime and shootings. I see it on the news daily.
With shipbuilding, space industry, colleges and building submarines and aircraft carriers, there are lots of opportunities for jobs. My grandson attends a tech school to become an aviation mechanic and we have many tech schools that allow people to get very high paying jobs.
I kind of wonder about the other cities you have accessed now.
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@wesgregg6451 I grew up in Hawaii back when beaches were open, there were only a few resorts, condos and a the excessively rich crowd had not zeroed in on Maui, along with pre tech stock money, it was such a different life.
By the time I left in my 50's, there was no camping everywhere, despite all the homeless camps, condos and resorts that took over all the shoreline with monster mansions that popped up on all the decent spots from the shoreline to the mountain top.
It's almost more than a person can handle in a lifetime.
Now I'm in Virginia and pretty much all the ocean and river shorelines have developed properties with no trespassing.
Of course this area, like Florida, has a lot of old time money from generations past, so it's been this way for a long time.
What I wonder about all those shoreline estates, many built in not much more than big sandbars, is how long will they last. North Carolina has practically whole seaside neighborhoods being washed into the ocean.
Now instead of driving around admiring the natural beauty of these areas, we instead marvel at how much money people have to build mansions and load the driveways and garages with expensive toys.
Sorry, I shouldn't have jumped in this comment in Ray's channel, but it struck a nerve.
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My second wife was the poster child for women that men should fear. She was able to turn on this personna that she was so fine. Her voice would rise an octave or two. But when she got mad and jealous, which became most of the time after we married, her voice lowered to a rough and husky voice and she had no problem with violence.
She was about a third shorter than me, so when she attacked me and set me up for the police, both they and the court and even my lawyer, just assume that she was some petite woman that was bullied by me.
Far from the truth, a year earlier she attacked me, which was documented and put her out of the house on a restraining order. I took care of her kids.
Like a dummy, I did everything to help her get out of it.
Then a year later, almost to the day, she planned this scenario, using her son as a witness to attack me and make it look like my fault.
She had no real marks and I had a torn ligament in my thumb from her striking me with a laptop, but police only talked to her and wouldn't listen to me and hauled me off. Then in jail, I was expected to write my side of it with a broken thumb ligament killing me.
I really learned what women are capable of with this one lady. I've steered clear of women since. I just don't trust them in America.
I had so many red flags and family and friends had warning flags for me with this lady, but I was stupid.
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I came out of a school for electronics and worked in a small business. Prior to college I helped my oarents run a small neighborhood store and then a brand new movie theater.
So working on my own seemed the way to go.
I bought the business I was working in with some help.
I built a pretty good business, but basically just survived for 14 years while raising a family.
I finally had a job opening for an aerospace company, wirking nights there and still doing my businees the rest if the time.
That didnt work out beyond a few years and I went back to my business.
Another couple years and an electric utility job opened. I applied and was hired.
I sold my business and probably didn't make much.
But I was able to work oart time in that business and work for the utility.
Almost 30 years later, I had to retire due to a disability, which kead to bankruptcy and foreclosure.
Bottomline though is that if I hadnt worked for a company to earn retirement and disability coverage, I would have been screwed.
These days working so long for a corporation, union or not, they will probably just let you go early.
I was lucky, but having your own business isn't the answer unless you are very shrewed in business and your skill, or have a killer idea.
In the end, having your own business can be a bad mistake too.
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As an elderly, retired man, I have a lot of leeway in choosing how my time is spent.
Unfortunately, the physical aspects are what work against me.
Despite many, many doctor visits, I have been and will be faced with, waking once an hour or so to use the bathroom.
I am doing the various treatment that have been prescribed, but also being told, you are just dealing with getting old.
Then couple that reality to various emotional issues that can arise with family and make me lose sleep over them, its a wonder if I can ever get enough rest in the first place.
Then getting hit with emotional situations, the realities of needing to do various things that I am dreading and I then have to struggle to sleep every night and struggle to wake up all day.
Being single, at least makes it more about just my issues.
If I was in a relationship with a lady, I can just imagine how much worse this would be.
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25 years of marriage and finding myself alone when my wife monkey branches and me a total inexperienced guy.
I held off dating for a full year.
I wish I knew all this stuff then.
I basically became a target. Good job and the first wife didn't exactly run me through the ringer.
So I had a good job and a 2nd job to boot with decent income.
I became a target. Like an idiot I fell for it.
Single mom, three kids from all different dads and I fell for her dog and pony show.
I thought I found someone and got lucky.
Fast forward 6 years, she had me under her thumb, ran off my friends and family, tried to have a baby with me and locked me down big time. That didn't happen thank goodness.
She went from this seemingly living and nurturing person to a controlling and fully dominating wife.
Having worked awhile in social services and with three ex husbands, she knew the laws and how a woman has all the control.
She set me up real good and it took most of my resources to just get out of it.
I bought the house, so she walked away with some money and within a year after the divorce was final, she ran down to Australia to meet a guy she met online and within a few months was remarried.
I think 6 months in, she worked him over big-time too. She thought she could get his resources, which wasn't much, but she couldn't
He called me after it blew up. My ex wife's new husband calls to compare notes and it was the same scam she pulled in him.
Being an Australian citizen, she ground him up and spit him out.
I think she even went on to stalk or marry number 6.
Some women should have their foreheads tattooed to warn men.
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Born in California, but grew up and lived in Maui, in Hawaii, until I was in my 50's. First place was Grants Pass Oregon for two years. Their town slogan is "it's the climate", which is nice and unique for Oregon, but the two summers I lived there, we had an average of five forest fires smoking the state out. I grew up around cane fires in Hawaii and it was just as bad, if not worse.
I moved to Newport News, following my daughter and grandkids. I never heard of the town. But after getting here I realized I was right in the middle of history. Revolutionary war, civil war, civil rights, air and space history, it has it all.
Weather wise we are in the middle of the north and south and the same with weather. It's a great place to live. I'm not a big fan of the heat in summer or the cold, which isn't as bad as just an hour or two north. I would like to venture out to the small towns in Virginia and other states.
This is the reason this video caught my eye.
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Even though some of the passport bros are out to bed multiple women over seas, that is just a slice of them. Many are in search of the long term woman.
In the meantime, a majority of the western women are spending their early decades, basically doing the same. Moving from Chad to Tyrone and back. Racking up body counts, then complaining that they were used, even though they chose the lifestyle and could have given a good average guy a chance and build a life with him.
After bouncing around, ignoring the good men, in search of who they believe is better, they hit the wall and start crying that it's then man's fault and try to paint a picture of passport bros as nearly pumping and dumping these foreign women.
Having followed many of the passport bro vloggers, a big percentage don't even get involved with women, while they roam the country to see where and who the most likely good wife material is at.
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My 9 year old granddaughter has been glued to me doing yardwork, planting and always up for anything.
Lately it is more of a challenge to distract her from social media.
She does a grandpa sleepover night once a week.
I still do a lot of stuff and things that are not ordinary with her.
We can't expect kids or grandkids to grow up and want to spend their time with the elderly.
I expected it a lot earlier based on kids and older grandkids, so I am enjoying what time we have.
I know I am imprinted in my kids and grandkids heart, but just like I did as a kid, we move on and grow up.
These days, just viewing your wife as a best friend is doomed.
If you have no life beyond them, that's the way it will be.
Learn to be happy on your own.
Most of my close friends I grew up around got into drugs and alcohol or died. I drifted away from that and now living across the country, my animals, farm and gardening is my life. Fixing cars and whatever projects I get into.
Occasionally, as money is available I will travel some, but can't afford to do that very often.
This guy's relationship falling apart with his wife is a good precursor to other relations failing.
Kids either take sides or drift away to get out of the drama.
He should focus on his wife and if that is not going anywhere, get a road map on how to get out, it won't get better.
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Back when I lived in Hawaii, I was oart of a financial group that helped other learn what you are saying 18:52 .
Oaying off cards and debt in a selective way promotes the good feeling that you are getting somewhere.
If you want a good credit score it goes counter intuitive to this. You accept more credit cards, not to soend more, but to sprrad your usage among them.
Keeping you credit card usage below 30% goes a long ways to building credit.
I went in disability and eventually had to go through a foreclosure and bankruptcy.
I expected to be credit black kisted for the rest if my financial life.
Instead I took small soecific loans using credit cards from olaces like tire shops. I then oroceeded to oay it down to under the 30% point and opened another card.
The same thing.
Not with the untention of running up debt, I jeep it at a manageable kevel, but multiple cards had a positive affect on my credit score.
I did that for three years and by the fourth year, I bought a home for what renting ine would cost a month.
Seven years kater, my home is nearly double the value if what I paid.
I then used that credit to lower my mortgage interest and pay off loans I took to make repairs.
I dont hild much hop, but am hoping the next interest rate drop, I will further consolidate my debts.
At 67, I dont expect to be around to the end of the mortgage, so how much I have monthly is my main focus.
But, staying in this path, if I do ever sell my place, I will be debt free and money in the bank.
My oroblem is I tend to buy houses I like, not to flip. So its very hard to let it go and cash out.
Inwould rather buy a send home in another location and split my time by renting one out at a time.
Not that I want to be a landlord either.
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I'm a grandfather retired boomer. With three kids, six grankids and two ex-wives, I went through early retirement due to a disability, which led to bankruptcy and foreclosure.
Now 10 years later, I have good credit, a new home and land in Virginia.
Most of the last 18 years since my last divorce, I've helped at least one of my three kids at various times.
Now my eldest grandson just finished aircraft mechanic school and has a job working on small planes and earning a halfway good income, the same as fast food workers in California.
He's getting good experience, but will need to move to a bigger company before long to double or even triple his income.
A 21 year old man that knows the whole dilemma that is dating, he will enjoy life single and having toys.
I basically am providing his home and some expenses, as he doesn't make enough to be entirely on his own yet.
He is doing his best to help me pay my bills and money I have put out for him, but until he can move to a higher paying job, he is stuck living with me.
I would love to just enjoy retirement and have plenty of income and few expenses, but that day is not yet, soon though.
As a father and grandfather, I enjoy my ability to help my family, but the economy in this country is making it harder and harder for young people to get out on their own.
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Free IVF doesn't make financial sense, but low population is a real issue too. So I can see the country as a whole may need it.
Read the statistics, it's not that women can't have kids and need IVF.
It's the whole way feminism has pushed women to work and do the stuff the men have done, yet all over the world, China and other countries are having the issue that women put off kids in favor of being in the workforce.
The real biological truth is getting a lot of push back by women trying to deny that the wall exists.
The wall is just saying that at a point in their lives, they no longer have eggs to fertilize.
Some are paying big bucks to freeze themir eggs to do IVF later and often that fails after all the cost to do it.
Also, men, by the time they hit 30 and up, probably have no girlfriends because the women have unrealistic high standards.
By then, a man doing good financially and wanting a family is not interested in an older woman or older single mother.
Why would they if they have the options of a good looking younger woman, without the drama and emotional baggage that the middle aged woman has.
Most of the women could have children during their child bearing age, but they only want that 1% of the men they see on social media.
So 80% of the women are only dating that 10% that have their life together, but men see them only for fun, not wife material.
The media needs to be more truthful about these issues and not just steer the issues to cover the real answers.
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I am in my late sixties, two boys and a girl in the middle. This describes her perfectly.
Shes had kids from different fathers and although her mother and i are divorced, we have always helped her because of the grandkids.
She and her kids live with me and her oldest is 20 and almost ready to get out of school and move away. But with inly months to go, she would rather make a dramatic move and leave the house, she and her kids lived rent and utilities free.
All the things you describe, I have years of texts, where I have been bombarded by her if things didnt go her way.
My ex and i have invested over two years to get her son though school and out of tech school, where he can make really good money, but her attitude with her own kids and parents is like she is trying to sabotage his success and because we arent as hard on him as she was, she says we are spoiling him. She would take him to therapy to convince heraelf and the therapists that he has issues, never herself.
If we ever try to point the light on her, she just blows up.
Nearly 20 years of helping her and her kids is going down the drain and no gratitude for the help she has had.
Its always that we like the boys better, its a men versus women bias and the boys can do no wring, its always her.
That is far from the truth.
We have dealt with many issues among the boys, but they tend to iwn up and take the responsibility for their life and their kids.
So this video really hit hime for ne right now.
The question is how to deal with all of these behaivors.
I doubt she will ever see it in herself, so stepping back and living our own lives, is about the only option. Luckily one grandchild will be on his own and one is 15 and close to keaving the nest and the youngest at 7 has a good father to help raise her, away from this environment.
I need to skim through your videos to find an answer.
In the meantime, she uses the sicial media echo chamber to feel like she is right, from ither women in the same situation.
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I spent many years in Maui, in Hawaii operating a two way radio shop. Some of my customers were HC&S, the biggest, Wailuku Sugar, shut down and they built houses in the property and Lahaina Sugar, they had their own tech and I just got the jobs he didn't want to tackle.
These trucks, mostly Fords ran almost their whole life in the Maui, much and mud, coated everywhere with dirt.
I give the mechanics credit that had to work on them. The mechanics and purchasing agent were the ones that dealt with me.
A lot of them had the old Motorola remote mount radios.
Basically big boat anchor type transceivers that had to mount behind or sometimes under the seat. When a removal and reinstall came up, pulling the radios out of the filth was tough, but because they were usually going back into a brand new truck, the install was easier, but I had to do some heavy duty cleaning of each radio, cables and control head. I did the cleanup and maintenance check and tune up. But the radio had to look almost new or the person driving the new truck would have a fit, which I don't blame them. First of all the radios were like thirty years old and new ones were the ideal situation, but the purchasing agents wanted to save money and reuse the radio for another few years.
This truck brings back those memories.
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A more realistic film for today would be Snow White getting with every prince in the country and each Prince would be moving on to the next women, that is also seeking her prince.
Then when Snow White begind to hit the wall in her thirties, she would complain there were no men to wife her up, despite an entire kingdom of eligible bachelors, that she ignored while hopping from Prince to Prince.
Then all the bachelors she ignored, ignore her to find a younger, more attractive, fertile woman, that has traditional values and no body counts.
Then the men of the country, metal workers, miners and other traditional labor type workers go on to have a nice family with their traditional wife they found in another kingdom.
Snow White gets a bunch of cats and sits at home saying woe is me and sipping on her mead and wine.
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When you mentioned women and foreign men, my mind was racing.
I thought back to all the old movies from the forties to the sixties. A lot of them was the attractive women, going to Europe, especially France, Spain and Portugal and hooking up with the foreign chad.
The theme generally had the Chad acting like he had money to pump and dump these American women. Some cases they did have money of their own or family money passed down.
These men did the pump or dump because they had no real money, because if they were self made men, they would not want to be seen by other professionals marrying an American women or if they had money from family, the family would be down on them for finding an American and not a girl of their own country.
The women, sometimes with little money, but most with days money would go to continue their "education" in Europe or to do the one two year find themselves and see the world thing. Just excuses to get with foreign chads.
Overall, Foreign men will usually use, pump and dump the more attractive women from America and move on, eventually finding a local girl with the qualities to be a wife.
The pumped and dump women might accumulate some wealth from these situationships and many would go home broke and cry about their lives. Boo hoo😢.
Bottom line very few men in America and the world actually want the modernized American woman.
It's not that they have a think about them being from America, it's about the whole load of crap they have bought into and now believe wholeheartedly.
American men want a good American wife, why not? They are the same language, often the same nationalities and have similar cultural upbringings.
The problem is that the American women went the way of feminism and don't understand that what they are rejecting, isn't even true.
Men don't dislike independent, thinking women. They just want a woman that is actually feminine and not trying to be a man.
The whole reversal of roles in the American sexes stinks. Women want to be the man, when it's convenient and men are being driven into thinking they are women.
So many guys now speak more feminine than almost any woman. It's sickening to hear a guy put so much over the top inflection into their speech to try and sound feminine.
Blah is all I can say.
Stop the bus, I want off.
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Sunday is the issue. My grandson just began working for one of the big auto parts stores. At 19, it's one of his first jobs. His career path that he is schooling for is an aircraft mechanic.
So this job is a way to help pay for the career.
He works evenings and weekends when the more experienced people want to be off.
Maybe research the companies prior. Having a good feeling about who can actually help you and then setting a time that will allow them to focus on you is critical.
It may not be so convenient for an owner/operator since those times are generally when you need to focus on your business.
You really need your wife or someone else to do the foot work for you and then if they get a time, be prepared with all your business info and be on time to the appointment and ready to provide all the info.
If at that point, it doesn't go well, then it's on them and tells you what sort of a supplier they might be.
With such a low workforce right now, the kitchen and if people like a sales rep that spends the time with the customer is harder to find.
Your tool distributors like Snap On and Max, that come to you periodically are a great benefit to you.
The auto parts stores in good times would not only deliver parts as you need them, they would have a sales rep that stops in to visit and make sure you are happy and getting the best prices, parts and all the corporate company advertising bling to put on display.
You have got this, but as a small one man repair shop for two way radios for about 15 years, I know that if you aren't in the shop making money, you're losing it. Designate people to do the non repair work for you.
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23:23 when I was twenty, a women ten years and up reminded ne of a mom or grandmother.
Beside not being interested in older women, it was looked down on if a young guy was chasing grandmas or mothers.
Now at 67 and divorced twice. One older and one younger, I have avoided the entire dating scene.
I am still interested in a good looking women, maybe one ten or more years younger that has kept herself up, maybe a small percentage my afe or older that really did well to keep themselves up, but all in all, I cant get attracted to someone that looks like my mom or Grandma.
I'm no Adonis, but thats not my problem.
So being an expat one day and dating good looking younger women is a possibility.
I am actually quite content just being a single grandfather, enjoying my farm yard animals and grandkids.
Even if i met an attractive older lady, chances are our lives are just so different that I wouldnt be comfortable.
No thanks, I will take my oersonal comfort of a bad relationship any day.
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I'm retired from Hawaiian Electric on Maui.
Back when solar was taking off, people got upset if they couldn't get authorized to have a system.
What no one understood was that the grid was built out based on the development done in the 60's.
So if a subdivision had 100 homes, the grid was designed to accommodate probably 125 homes.
But as speculation and development came in and housing went nuts, many homes added to the house and built cottages in the backyard.
So before solar came in, the grid was being stressed by all the unplanned and yet permitted, even unpermitted additions.
So with solar, the transformers and lines feeding those places need to be redesigned and upgraded.
But to do that the pic has to approve the extra expenses the utilities had and needed to get back from the sales.
Plus, solar is great when the sun provides the power, but that isn't all day or even everyday. The utilities were obligated to provide power during all those times.
The power plants designed to provide enough power to feed everyone, had to have not only enough, but more than they needed.
That means that when people needed power that wasn't provided by the sun, they expected to still have power.
The power plants had to have what's called a spinning reserve in order to instantly provide power.
All the power plants were running, even if the grid didn't need it.
It can take hours to start up a powerplant. So they can't just shut them down and turn them back on when needed.
This means they ran and used fuel 24/7 in case power was needed.
Then there is the infrastructure which is primarily lines on poles.
These had to withstand storms and hurricanes, but unless a lot of money was spent to upgrade from wood poles, it wasn't likely they could.
Again, those fixes like everything would be reflected in already high priced electricity.
The Lahaina fire that is blamed on a spark from the lines could not be upgraded enough, without going underground and that would be so costly, no one would stand for it.
Everyone wants to see electric cars, windmills and solar everywhere, but no one wants to foot the huge bill it would take.
You can't have all that and a bullet proof system, without investing huge amounts and definitely can't expect to have cheap electricity.
Based on what we have today, if the whole system was redesigned and the old system eliminated, then maybe it would all work, but hundreds of years of power generation and infrastructure would have to be eliminated.
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My grandson graduated from aircraft mechanic school and while he should be earning $30 to $40 an hour at least, he had to take a job locally at a small airplane repair company for $20 an hour and no overtime.
There are lots of big companies that he could be earning $100k a year.
The problem is he would have to relocate around the country, mostly in bigger cities and his rent, insurance, food, etc would make it almost impossible.
I prefer he stay with me, help me out as he can financially, and get a good year or more learning to repair various types of planes, versus doing a repetitive job day in and day out.
Because he has the FAA A&P certificates, he can work at a very wide variety of jobs that require it. So from small planes, military ships and planes up to rockets.
He will do okay because he is only 21 and has a great future.
Myself I'm retired from an electric utility and in a fixed, but doable income for getting by and helping him get started.
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I totally relate to you. I have spent the last year working in my yard with earbuds, listening to you and so many other channels like yours.
But I take breaks and learn about Appalachian history, how to filter my duck pond and all sorts of stuff that isn't men & women.
Sometimes I just go to my Radio Garden app and listen to mountain music. I'm in Virginia.
The other thing is the mens channels have become pretty duplicate.
You, Clarey, the wall, the fiend and others are commenting on these videos and many I've watched already, so it's just another person commenting on these videos.
I'm 67, single and don't date, so it's all interesting, but doesn't affect me with no women in my life.
I like the way you think, so I would probably follow your thoughts on just about anything.
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Just now, per my google Bard. I asked it for the definition of a perfect woman according to a man.
"There is no one definition of the perfect woman for a man. What is perfect for one man may not be perfect for another. However, there are some qualities that many men find attractive in a woman. These include:
* *Physical attractiveness:* While physical attractiveness is not the most important factor for all men, it is still important to many. Men are generally attracted to women who are in good shape, have symmetrical features, and are well-groomed.
* *Intelligence:* Men are also attracted to women who are intelligent and well-educated. They want to be able to have stimulating conversations with their partners and feel like they can learn from them.
* *Sense of humor:* A good sense of humor is always a plus. Men want to be with women who can make them laugh and who enjoy life.
* *Kindness:* Men are attracted to women who are kind and compassionate. They want to be with someone who is caring and who will make them feel good about themselves.
* *Confidence:* A confident woman is attractive to men. They want to be with someone who knows who they are and what they want in life.
Of course, these are just a few of the qualities that men find attractive in a woman. Ultimately, the perfect woman for a man is the one who makes him feel happy, loved, and appreciated.
It is important to remember that everyone is different, and what is perfect for one person may not be perfect for another. There is no one right way to be a woman, and there is no one right way to be a man. The most important thing is to be yourself and to find someone who loves you for who you are."
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I've had profiles in like three dating apps. Paid for a subscription a couple times, but the dating apps bait guys in by making them think there is some perfect woman out there trying to contact me, but they block the view to try and get me to pay.
The few times that I did pay to see if it was true, it wasn't. The few good looking women are likely pictures that scammers put up, especially when the age and information do not match the picture, at all.
Then a scroll through literally hundreds of fat, over aged women that have nothing going for themselves. They look like my grandma. Granted I'm in my sixties, but I never wanted to date a grandma in my life, why should I now?
Most of the women that have all the toys, cars, boats and houses and travel, have the money from their divorce or a life insurance policy.
Again, grant d some actually earn their money and could be NASA scientist for all I know, but those are a very small percentage and they probably don't use dating apps.
These women look like they live in either trailers or by the ocean, just depends on how much money they have got.
These 30 and 40 year old women that still look decent and have a few miles left in them, are not really good for more than a short fling and even then, you are playing with fire. At that age, they know how to work over men.
The ones in that age group of American women would not even reply to an elderly gent such as me.
Now if these were girls from other countries, they would range from 19 to 30 and be all over answering me. But that is a different set of problems.
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11:57 looking at the two camshafts, there is a hole on the left side, closest to the timing belt. Both camshafts, exhaust and input have it.
The fact that they are aligned with each other, facing the same way, is hopeful. If they were not, then the exhaust and intake camshafts have been misaligned.
There is a pin in the timing belt side of those shafts that keeps them in sync with the timing belt pulleys. In some cases those pins will brake or shear off if not torqued down properly and then the two camshafts will turn out of sync.
Hoping the timing belt teeth shaved off and no valve damage was done.
Being a semi-interference engine, only the exhaust valves will strike the piston and get bent. So with the smoke test if that is the case, there will be smoke leaking out of the exhaust side, but not on the input side, when both shafts are removed and allow all the valves to be in the closed position.
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Just got two pair of very lightweight tennis shoes. They look good, but probably cardboard with cheap plastic.
Im wearing them now and they are not bad for $10.
I was trying to find a battery operated high oressure wash thing that looked like a drill.
Venmo had videos that showed them on their commercials.
I couldnt find it on their site and wrote them, only to be told its not them, despite all the ads on YouTube and Facebook advertising them.
I went to Temu and along with my shoes, I got the pressure sprayer that I was looking for.
Its not bad either.
I used to use Wish a lot, but they had lots of issues.
Despite many junk orders, things never coming, they always reimbursed me fully for what I paid and I never had to ship it back.
90% if everything is cheap junk, but occasionally you get decent products.
I recently was in a store that buys containers of goods, abandoned or not shipped back, etc.
Again, 90% and more wasn't worth the space it took up and the resources that it used up making them.
Majority of people buying them were low income or on disability and welfare.
I'm pretty sure they buy as more of an addiction to spending money.
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My response to a 70 year old that has had a wonderful life and doesn't understand why everyone thinks like this.
"There is always an exception to the rule. I'm 68 and not an exception. My parents weren't the exception, both my wife's parents were not the exception.
Most of my friends parents were not the exception.
The few people that were an exception were far and few between.
Even many of those exceptions maintained a marriage and were not happy and just endured it.
I have known a few beautiful couples that stayed together and spread that down into their bloodline, but even then, somewhere down the bloodline it does strike and the exception rule falls apart.
I and many others have our hats off to you sir, but you are an exception.
I also wonder when a person loses their spouse, if their relationship was as ideal as they remember it. A loss like that makes the person focus on the good times, whereas a loss due to divorce or infidelity makes the person focus on the bad times.
In addition, you were married twice to people that passed away. My heart goes out to you, I would have had a hard time with that myself.
But, if your first spouse had lived, we don't know if you two would have made it to the end.
Culture plays a big part in how people change as individuals.
You were married a second time and again, would that marriage have been so ideal if it spanned a lifetime for you both.
Now at 70, you are in a much different frame of mind and physically your desires no doubt have waned some, like most men, so staying married at that age may be much easier.
Again, I applaud you and wished everyone was more like you, but I wanted to point out some variables in your life that don't exist in most men's lives."
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Here in Hampton Roads Virginia, close to Norfolk and many military bases, we have a lot of news programs highlighting the military.
Each time, I am amazed at how many women are serving in ships.
In addition, there are quite a few military pilots flying our best jets.
I think if women don't want to just stay home, be a mom, support their family or in war time, take in jobs that are needed to support the country, then those women should serve.
There are many positions that women can work in.
The thing is if they plan to get pregnant, then choose to stay home. It's not a job that you can get and within a few months get pregnant and go on maternity leave.
A woman that wants a family should plan to serve a few years and then leave, post wall and start a family.
A woman that chooses to serve up until she hits the wall, should just adopt all the orphans that war creates or plan to work until retirement and just know that they won't have a family from their eggs.
Men and women are different, no matter what people want to believe.
That said, certain work men are naturally built for and some a woman can do.
But to say that both men and women can do any of the jobs in the military is seriously flawed.
Not to say that a woman can't do every job a man can do, but they are just not designed to hold up to many jobs.
Also, men think more logically and women use intuition and emotions to make their decisions.
Some situations require people to not use emotions or intuition to do them.
Being a mom and a wife is not a bad thing, it is a very much needed job and it shapes the future generations. Right now the future generations are caught up in a very mixed up world, which will cause all sorts of problems for the poor kids growing up now.
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My 2001 PT suddenly wouldn't start. Did the troubleshooting through the starter relay, there are a few similar ones to swap out, so that's pretty easy, even without a voltmeter.
I setup a long metal rod to reach the solenoid and voltage was present. So I applied battery voltage, via the rid, directly to the starter side of the solenoid and it cranked. Being that they are sort of a one piece thing, not like the old days where you fix them, I replaced the starter and it works great. I also had a lot of after market led lights, sound systems, alarms and bling on the car. It was previously a show car. It would die every three days if not started. I think it was pulling about 60 milliamps from the battery in the off position and so I disconnected about every aftermarket item and it seems okay. I bought it and it just had a bad battery after sitting for three years in a garage. Since the new battery, I ended up with a second new battery from the constant discharge and sitting discharged. Happy to say it's running good today with 220,000+ miles on it.
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15:23 the problem with the pride movement is not that people are different from most of what society considers normal, but they want to shove it down our throats in movies, TV, commercials and ads.
You want to be something other than what you were born, fine, just quit throwing it up in everyone else's face.
Not only does the pride movement try to induce others, but are brainwashing our children.
In an effort to differentiate themselves from normal people, they can't even agree on what people should call them. He, she or any male and female descriptions are not allowed, but they come up with totally ridiculous ways of describing themselves, even to the point of saying that what they call themselves is totally out of the ability of a human to say. WTF 😮.
They say anything they want and get all up in arms if normal people have anything to say about them.
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Ringo Starr did a great song. "No no no I don't need it no more, tired of waking up on the floor. No thank you please, it only makes me sneeze and then it makes it hard to find the door."
I grew up in Hawaii. We had Kanekapili parties in the backyard, barbequing, families getting together, playing music, talking stories and kids running with their friends.
The adults spent the night on the picnic tables, drinking, smoking and having so much fun. We watched all that and couldn't wait to get older to drink and have that fun, but we began earlier, sneaking beers and liquor.
Later in the evening, drunken adults got obnoxious and unruly. Saying or doing things that weren't acceptable or stuff they would normally do.
Lots of time by the late night and early morning, the heavies got into arguments, which helped the party end, many times badly and police coming.
Later over the years, the same parties shifted, the uncles and siblings older than us, maybe in their 20's began the party with a few drinks and then switched to drugs.
This really changed the dynamic of the parties.
Kids running around to now seeing drunks and druggies for their role models.
Eventually, while alcohol was still there, stuff like heroin and meth came in the scene.
Before long, most families were broken as the parents were hauled off to prison terms if lucky and dead if not.
Now parentless kids were being raised by older parents or grandparents, some, if not many, alcoholics themselves.
I think kids today do show signs of waking up to being just normal and actually living.
I'm 67, quit drinking and drugging awhile ago. When I say drugging, I include prescription medicines.
I am in better health, mentally and physically than I ever have been.
I got sick of knowing my kids had to see me like that and swore my grandkids wouldn't know that man.
I love the man, grandpa I am today.
Single, working on cars, raising animals on a small Virginia farm and being a role model to my grandkids.
Big business used the power of the media to sell us all down the crapper. The media can influence everyone, especially the children.
Just look at what kids are being sold now.
Being gay isn't just happy anymore.
There is no way to describe gender properly anymore.
Sexes trying to become other genders.
It's a new set of problems 😢 and so sad for the latest generations.
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He is so spot on with everything he says.
I have to say that when men see the mother of their children, their wife, etc in an emotional way, it decreases their drive for sex. They want that sex to be almost animalistic and that's what they get with the random women that they would never wife up.
So it makes it very hard to transfer those feeling on someone you love, that you will spend your life with and that gave you children.
Maybe if they practice role playing it is possible, but even then it can also drive away that love they had.
I compare that with an elderly single man, looking to date a woman and the one's his age look more like his mom or grandma. That seriously kills the desire for that man.
So looking at younger good looking women just ignites the right feelings for the man.
It's also a hard type of relationship if the man isn't looking to start another family with kids, but that woman may have a tribe in tow or if she hasn't had kids, she will want one and will not stay faithfully in a relationship with the older man.
Those feelings make it almost impossible for a man to develop a long term relationship.
I think that if a man has had a chance to know a woman closer to his age and value her for who she is, not the sex, there is a better chance for wanting to stay with that person.
In a good way, the creator or nature gave man a declining sex drive, which may help him develop a relationship that is not based on sex.
Unfortunately, a woman is often finally ready for some sex after she has gotten older and back on the dating market.
So now the man is able to be with her, looks and all, because his drive has tapered off, but she is wanting sex and another imbalance begins.
I think a good older woman has the capability to restart his desires if she is willing to put in the effort.
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Like many others that can't see a way to help in all the different issues, I go about my business day in and day out.
I am a 67 year old retired man, lived most of my life in Hawaii, but events in life have me with a great place in Virginia and getting by.
I'm in a space to help and counsel my grandkids to hopefully help them in their adult years.
The oldest will become an aircraft mechanic this year and eventually pull down six figures.
Of course I would love to live the single retired life and travel or even go live in the woods, but I have over an acre in the city, but with trees and animals, it's more like a farm away from others. I have chickens, ducks, turkey and goose, a dog and I'm happy.
Since I can't see what else to do, I am choosing to help support you in spreading the word.
You, Aaron Clarey and Legion of Men, don't know his name, are my three go to YouTubers.
Besides that side, I also follow expat channels, wishing I could live in a fraction of what my expenses are. The problem is I like living in North America and want to enjoy this country. I just wish the country could get its crap together.
I'll be tuning in, but now as a supporter.
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My 20yr old grandson has spent most of his life raised by my daughter and I have been his father figure.
Over the years he's helped me work on mowers as a very young boy and now fresh out of High School, he went straight to aviation mechanic school in Virginia.
Except for a very rocky few months when he met a younger girl and was ready to abandon his dreams and run off to get married, he's been on track.
That girl messed with him and boys on the side. He finally opened his eyes, when his heart was broken and swore off these girls.
Now he is a typical guy, playing games with buddies online, but learning to tend to his adult needs and how to make and budget money.
In a month when he gets his A&P certificate, he is on his way to a starting pay of $60k, with sign on bonuses. In a few years, he will top six figures before even 25.
If he steers clear of women until at least 25, he has an excellent chance of a great life.
Of course, as we all know, a woman could squirm her way in between him and his money and dreams.
Hopefully, he will continue to learn. I sent your videos to him to enlighten him.
My granddaughters are another issue. I'm doing what I can with them, but all three kids have different dads that don't live with their mom.
But grandpa is doing his best. My ex, grandma is also still working alongside me to help them get through life.
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The easiest way is just be outright honest and communicate and slow down.
Ascertain whether the relationship would last without lots of sex.
People lie and manipulate others to get what their fantasy is.
But regardless, you can't take back body counts.
A majority of men haven't even had aex with one women, so the majority doesn't come with a heavy body count.
This misperception is that men have sex every chance they can, but that's the minority Chads and Tyrones, not the majority of men.
Yet the majority of women have huge body counts, whether they admit it or not.
At 67, I married my first relationship, years later a second marriage was with the second person I was ever with. Fast forward 6 years to the end of that marriage, she had an underderermined amount of relationship, baded on her stories, I figure about 19.
I've been relationship free since 2006. I don't see the big rush.
Sex isn't enough to overlook how these women act, regardless of body count.
I understand the control hormones have on people, especially young people.
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5:53 women say they don't dress to attract men, yet if that's the case, why is it so revealing and focused on their looks when they dress?
If not for men, than women?
If I was a women and dressing only for myself, I would wear comfortable clothing, not squeeze into tight revealing outfits, tons of makeup and hair styling and not be worried about how I look to others.
So it's very obvious that they want the attention, but only from those they find attractive.
The women that are with men and do the club thing, again, they are dressing for men, regardless of what they tell their men.
Its so easy for a younger women to live in delusion and lie without a second thought.
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2:59 one problem with this all, is who are they?
We know it benefits various people, but people that are pushing this stuff arent all benefitting and getting rich from it.
The collective "they" that is referred to are hard to point to and show that they have this plan to change it all for a specific reason.
It's almost like people are going ignorantly along at the top with just their self serving goals and using technology and social media to change things, which could not have been done prior to all this worldwide knowledge and communications.
Back when rome had leaders with a plan, but the plans were for power and riches, I took longer, because the rest of the world took months and years to even know about what rome was doing.
These days knowledge is instantaneous.
Another example is the country heard about other countries, but in writings, then radios, then television and now instantaneously online.
Our kids are exposed to the evils of the world.
Seeing the middleeast, as an example, constantly fighting and torturing and beheading and raping and thinking thats how to react to situations they can't deal with.
This time the school shooter was a 15 year old girl.
Their whole life they have been exposed to the world and they lost all the good messages of smalltowns, small countries and having tight nuclear families.
Im rambling, but I hope I made some sense.
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I have the Cinemark movie reward club and haven't watched movies in ages, since the pandemic.
I took my grandson, his friend and myself.
One senior, two adults general admission. That was almost $50. I had free tickets, but their app and people at the movie could find out how to apply them, so I had to pay it and chase them.
We had two large popcorn, three hits and large drinks and one small pizza.
The bill was going to be about $112. Luckily, I had points built up, after they applied them, it brought it down to about $45.
Even my free tickets weren't free because it was an XD theater so they charged an extra $7+.
I attempted to pre-buy the tickets. It charged me, but applied the free tickets, but went right back to where I had to buy them. I did it a second time and did the same thing.
So now I have to chase them for those two payments.
I worked for my parents at the Maui Theater in Hawaii while in high school.
No apps or movie clubs. People paid the cashier, she handed you the ticket, instead of little machines that don't work right and no one can help on the spot.
The studios took 90 to 95% of the admissions off the top, we got the leftovers. If it played for more weeks, our cut went up, but less people came too.
The concessions were how the theater survived. So prices were always high, but still affordable.
$150 to see a movie and eat and drink for three people is $50 a person.
No wonder I don't bother watching them.
Pre-pandemic, I might watch a movie in the afternoon for something to do and to beat the heat. Not anymore, I would rather sweat.
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I started out after college, installing and repairing two way radios. Back in the day, that meant a big unit mounted in a trunk, with a couple inches wide if cables going to the driver's area and on to the battery. Inside the car, I often had to disassemble the inside to run cables and mount brackets and such to solid metal.
I started out working in my parking lot and if a customer came back early and saw their brand new car, even a Mercedes at one time, in parts like after the wicked witch finished with the scarecrow. Interior panels, seats and other parts laid out everywhere so I could do my work. In the end, they never new what was involved normally, but we're even more surprised to see it in the middle and the finished product.
I did that as cellular began and eventually things were designed to smaller, less cables and eventually becoming handhelds.
I had a number of installers working for me over the years and really, only a few could handle the work. Especially when we had a fleet change out of 20 or so vehicles that had to be removed from the old vehicle and reinstalled in the new vehicles. A lot of after hours work involved to keep from losing the use of the vehicle. I spent more time doing this work, than being at home with kids and family. But that's life as a business owner.
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I love that because of watching you do front ends for the past year, I have rebuilt the entire front end and replaced the steering arm, including dropping the subframe to do it on my PT Cruiser.
But thats not all, I have nearly rebuilt my Dodge Dakota truck front end and am finishing up today on my Kia.
The Kia had a clunking noise. After replacing sway bar links, control arms and struts, it came down to the worn sway bar to frame bushings. The worst thing to have to do.
It involved dropping the subframe partially down, loosening the steering column shaft to get just enough space. The only thing left holding it was the front engine to subframe mount.
It also involved dropping the Y pipes of the exhaust.
Luckily it is fairly new.
One lesson I learned from you is to just go the extra mile and remove things in the way, rather than trying to take short cuts that take longer and result in more damage.
At any rate, I maintain all three of my older cars myself, from self confidence of watching you work.
The money I have saved on all three cars is still less than a brand new car payment, interest and required maintenance that costs extra.
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Decades ago I was obsessed with LED lighting being the future. This was just before they developed a true white LED.
Then the breakthrough happened.
I was working for Hawaiian Electric and my first thought was cost savings on electric use, but in the early years, the street lights that cost the company maybe $75 would have been about $750 for an LED version.
The county paid the cost of the electricity and had an agreement with the utility to maintain them.
So while the savings might have been good over time, the initial cost to retrofit the LED bulbs was more than anyone wanted to pay.
Then the night sky initiative came out.
Trying to keep all the stray light from going out into the sky and also the issues it caused from distracting night migrating seabirds in the islands, became a concern.
They tried putting shields and changing the lights over, but the police complained that the new lights caused the colors at night to be different. Descriptions of car colors, clothing colors, etc made it hard for the police to get good descriptions.
With LED white lights, the color shift wasn't an issue and the LED lighting could be designed to shine only where they wanted, eliminating the stray light into the skies.
Fast forward a few years and LED lighting is very commonplace and widely used.
I retired, but always felt like there was a great opportunity in LED lighting, I just didnt get on that money train.
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Having been approached by a matchmaker company whose clients are divorced and widowed women living in Virginia Beach, enjoying the ex husband's resources, I experienced first hand this scam.
First of all I wasn't going to pay anyone.
When I would question them about the costs, they always beat around the bush.
Various ladies from the agencies would call multiple times a week. J owing I was retired, not broke and single, they constantly tried to recruit me. Promising that they had dozens of women looking for me.
I kept waiting to play the game out more if they would offer me a free pass, but they didn't get desperate enough and finally I just ignored their calls.
Looking at the dating sites around Virginia Beach, most of the women were not my type, but they had money, lived by the beaches, had boats and other nice toys.
If I was a Chad gigolo I could have worked it for the money, free trips and dinners, but that was not my style.
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No offense to you and the many YouTubers I watch, but it's related.
So many people want the easy way out to make money, stay home or be able to live high on the hog, or at least give that impression to their social media followers.
These women don't want to work hard and because this lifestyle of acting on camera, by portraying whatever life they want, could bring them in lots of money, they do it.
All are trying to do what a few have done. Whether it's Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, only fans or whatever. They want to live and earn their money from it.
Unfortunately, it has its downside eventually and all that money may not be worth the price they and their family members may pay in the future.
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There is always an exception to the rule. I'm 68 and not an exception. My parents weren't the exception, both my wife's parents were not the exception.
Most of my friends parents were not the exception.
The few people that were an exception were far and few between.
Even many of those exceptions maintained a marriage and were not happy and just endured it.
I have known a few beautiful couples that stayed together and spread that down into their bloodline, but even then, somewhere down the bloodline it does strike and the exception rule falls apart.
I and many others have our hats off to you sir, but you are an exception.
I also wonder when a person loses their spouse, if their relationship was as ideal as they remember it. A loss like that makes the person focus on the good times, whereas a loss due to divorce or infidelity makes the person focus on the bad times.
In addition, you were married twice to people that passed away. My heart goes out to you, I would have had a hard time with that myself.
But, if your first spouse had lived, we don't know if you two would have made it to the end.
Culture plays a big part in how people change as individuals.
You were married a second time and again, would that marriage have been so ideal if it spanned a lifetime for you both.
Now at 70, you are in a much different frame of mind and physically your desires no doubt have waned some, like most men, so staying married at that age may be much easier.
Again, I applaud you and wished everyone was more like you, but I wanted to point out some variables in your life that don't exist in most men's lives.
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6:58 years ago the book "The Secret" came out. Back then all the elder former hippies tuned into it and while all these "experts" came out with their theories of envisioning, intention and blah, blah , blah.
The idea was to make money, yet it was the people that did the book and sold their courses and were paid to speak, that made money.
Everyone else just paid into it.
These women are doing the same thing. They orey on other miserable women to get them to buy their courses, which is just the same regurgitation of the older useless courses.
Back then, people jumped on the bandwagon and convinced people to pay them to learn these "secrets" for more money and it's the same thing rewrapped around women and men relationships.
No doubt all the older women, were taken in and when their husbands just did their work and didn't become a millionaire, these older women divorced, probably took what they could and then searched for the Chad to get resources, but only got used and dropped.
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26:28 after walking away from a mortgage in Hawaii and my first house, disability, foreclosure and bankruptcy, I never intended to have a house again about 4 years later and a settlement, I walked into a great place in Virginia. It's gone up over $150k in equity.
When I went for a mortgage and solar for the house and an brand new HVAC system, I mainly look at the monthly costs. If I can afford it monthly, then that's fine. How much I pay in total doesn't mean much because I won't outlive the debts anyways.
So if I can get the place and pay for needed repairs and still have money at the end of the month that works for me.
Of course having enough for savings is rough, but I'm slowly trying to have 6 months worth as a target.
My whole world evolves around what it costs me monthly, not at the end, like I said I won't be here or probably not in my house if I am.
I wish things were better and maybe they might, but just a notch over surviving is acceptable. I wish I was thriving and had the money to travel and such, but that's not in the budget.
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11:34 no friends, but who voted for you to become a homecoming queen?
You might have had friends, but you already had a negative self talk going on and wasn't able to see those that would have become friends.
I was always quiet and shy. Overweight when I was young and moved to Hawaii prior to 7th grade and was one of a couple other white kids. Only one was my age.
Later on after 16 alcohol made us all more friendly, but now retired and in my 60's and don't drink, it's hard again to find friends.
It can be just as hard as an elderly person. The people you click with don't reach out and you don't make an effort and that made them wonder why you were that way.
In school, it didn't matter if a guy was short, fat, the bad boy or whatever, as long as they didn't think about it and were outgoing.
As an adult, it works better if you realize that you can't worry about it and if no one likes you so be it, but you would likely be in more demand if you make the effort.
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Women back in the day, if they did the work instead of complaining, they could go and meet friends, bake for fun, enjoy the kids and play with them.
Modern stay at home wives just complain of doing any work and want to cruise with friends and suck down frappes packed with calories, all the while becoming as big as a house and the husbands can't say anything as they watch this once gorgeous girl they married, become rotunta the giant.
They don't clean, they was clothes still together, underwear still in the pants, don't bother to shop, except for all the junk that they and now the kids eat as they sit in front of the TV and complain or on phones these days.
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I dont mind paying for the parts and labor that it takes to build a car. I also understand that the car manufacturers need to make a orofit that they can put into R&D for the future and sticking around to support the cars.
Unfortunately, there are so many levels of people in between that as soon as you buy one, lose the value that happens initially and then all the 10 and 15% cuts that go to wholesalers, retailers, car salesman and used car salesman that we are basically giving money away.
I do a lot of my own work, which gives me confidence that I'm not over paying for parts and labor, but a new car has so many restrictions about how its maintained and services, that the warranty can be jeopardized if we dont pay $700 for an oil change and service that is required at the dealership.
When I look at the price of the car payment, interest and financing charges per month, I come out way ahead buying the parts, investing in tools and even changing oarts that could be a problem in the future, not just reacting when it breaks down.
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My grandson just turned 21 and lives with me.
But straight out of high school he went to aircraft mechanic school for two years, graduated with his FAA A&P certificate (Airframe and Power Plant) and can now go on to earn 6 figures in any of various industries requiring this.
He is starting off at a small local airport to work on planes and acquire experience, while paying down debts, like his government loans and then he can pretty much pick a big company most anywhere in the world.
Being just 21 and no girlfriend or wife, which I hope he maintains, he can really set his life up nicely and maybe when he hits his forties, he can select a nice young attractive woman with a low body count to settle down and have his own kids with, not raise some other guys kids.
The crazy thing about this is hearing from you on another video about California raising its minimum wages for fast food to $20/hr.
While my grandson could relocate and make $35-$40 an hour starting in the big metro airports or factories, to stay here in Virginia he has to start off at $20.
So with his training and certifications, he is still making as much as a California fast food worker.
Fast food is already crazy expensive, I can imagine how expensive it will be after these pay increases.
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I always ignored the Publisher Clearing House sweepstakes. Not because they were a scam, but I didn't want to deal with mail all week long and sometimes more than one a day.
I'm old, at home and it provides some entertainment and home. Might cost me a stamp or two and even then I validate my entry for free online and only occasionally send one in. I've been doing it for a few years and don't really expect to get $10,000 a week for life, but who knows. Someone does and it could be me. A new casino is opening Monday and thousands are already planning to go. Again entertainment. Some will win, but most will not. I can't handle watching $20 bills disappear so quickly.
Growing up in Hawaii, Las Vegas was most of the Islanders second home. People I knew went at least once, many times three times a year. Spent big buck, a few won, but I didn't know anyone that actually came out ahead.
So are the casinos scammers? Not really, they are entertainers. It's up to people to spend their money where they want and how they want, but the type of scammers that play on others misfortunes and emotions and especially age, should be taken out of society at any cost.
The call center scammers blatantly show off their money, cars and stuff they funded with scam money.
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My situation is I have a nice 1.6 acre property with a two story house, two car garage and a barn.
I bought it in 2017 and it's worth nearly $150k more than I paid.
I am retired and 67, single with just a grandson living with me here in Virginia.
I thought about taking the money and just renting afterwards or mostly traveling.
The problem is I have animals, gardens and enjoy this place.
Buying a place that's better than most places I could move to makes it hard to sell.
The house has an inlaw section that is big enough for me.
I thought I could rent the rest of the house and have a base to come back to.
My family is scattered between Hawaii, California, Virginia and Australia.
Traveling is expensive and a pain. I don't care for California and Australia. Too expensive and too far.
I spent most of my life in Hawaii, been there and done that. It's a crazy place from what I experienced growing up.
I even thought about an Airbnb for the main part of the house or moving into an RV and just keep moving.
If you buy a house that you love, you may not want to profit from it and sell it later. Even if you did, what can you buy next?
I really hate paying someone else's mortgage by renting, which is why I have this house now. It only cost me about $200 a month more for the mortgage over the rent.
I sort of like the idea of moving to a place for a month to see what it's like and then move on to another location, while retaining my home base and renting the main part out.
I make enough monthly in retirement to live okay and it's mainly the cost of having a house, animals and loans for the maintenance, that eats up my income.
I even thought of being a passport bro and living where I can make my money go much further, but I have good doctors and medical care here and that may not be the case elsewhere.
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28:37 I've been hooked on a number of channels, your being one, but I find that over the past two months, the initial interest has waned.
In the beginning it's new, I may have never have seen the content or the style of presenting it, but like any relationship, it's not all butterflies in the stomach.
But, I find your channel and a few others are my go to channels to tune into.
I just don't binge watch them anymore. I may listen to podcast style videos with not much to see, while doing my yardwork or working on my car, but I need to be able to watch channels like yours and of course to comment.
Arnica is wonderful for those knots or strains. I use it often for minor strains.
I like the gel type that sort of evaporates after.
Often if I do it at bedtime, I'm good with to go the next day.
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How much is the warranty company paying anyways?
I'm curious if the warranty company is one of the many that advertise on TV?
I've thiught about using one, but just cant help but yhink that as long as they are making money, they are happy, but will nickel and dime mechanics and parts people to soend the very least they can.
The commercials make it sound so great, but uf they are like home warranty companies, they make it sound like no worries. They will fix it replace with like models, but when it comes to doing a replacement or authorizing a repair, they only approve a fraction and pay the customer, not actually replacing the defective appliance, but they pay off some unseen list that isn't what it actually cost to replace.
My home warranty paid me only $250 for a under counter above stove microwave that went bad. They said the microwave was not repairable.
But a new one was $600+ and insult to injury, I had to remove the old one, find a second hand one and figure out how to remount it.
I don't trust warranty companies anymore.
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I don't understand why so many people from the lower countries aren't just going to Mexico for jobs and better lives?
It would really help our immigration issues if they absorbed many of these people, especially since their languages are more similar.
If I was Trump, I would make Mexico figure out their crime and issues that deter people from living there safely and create an environment that rewards people for good work and makes it possible to have a family and a home there.
I'm sure many that come to the US, including Mexicans, would love to live in Mexico if there was less crime and corruption.
Living in the US is more of a fantasy than realistic.
So many think they can get here and have the American dream, but even Anericans can't have the American dream anymore.
Most people in the world just want conditions that allow them to work, raise a family, support a family and maybe own a home.
These are not out of reach, unless the government either works against them or turns a blind eye and let's criminals run things.
Countries of the world need to iron out a plan that helps everyone prosper.
Spreading the wealth through an honest system would help everyone and not limit the wealthy from having more money, although maybe it might make it hard for one rich person to own 25 mansions, yachts and 200 cars.
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Since buying my house, I have approximately $50,000 in repairs and upgrades that I didn't see when I bought the house.
If I knew that it would have radically changed the deal and I probably wouldn't have bought it.
Luckily, I paid $270k, spent $50k through additional loans and refinancing.
Luckily my house is over $400k now, but it became tighter than I had expected it to be.
All the work, trim and soffits, two all new HVAC and ducting, as well as solar, does add value, but if I wanted to sell, it cuts into how much I could make.
I will stick it out because I like the place and can't imagine where else I would care to live, especially states or countries.
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These stories are so common.
As social media, Tiktok and dating sites become more available to women throughout the world, the more westernized these women become.
The province girls might be decent enough, but the more access to the internet they have, the more they are influenced by the influencers.
Every year, months and days, more are turned to the dark side.
Considering their prospects and access to schools and jobs, scamming guys becomes a job for them and then they are addicted to the easy money that this disception brings.
Women love to recruit other women to help validate what they must know deep down inside is immoral and downright criminal.
Soon they and their friends are rolling in their ill-gotten gains.
The window where you could meet a province type girl is quickly disappearing and like Bo says, you have to live there, be familiar with the people and then, maybe, just maybe, you can meet an honest, good hearted woman.
But, and it's a big but, the laws in the country can definitely go against a foreigner.
The Philippines says that kids must take care of their parents and family. So if you marry one, you are legally responsible for helping her family.
They know that and the family members will crawl out from the forests and under rocks, if they hear someone married a foreigner, just to get a piece of the pie.
If you have a strong Filipina, she may hold them back, not really wanting to lose money that belongs to you and her, but they are raised to help the family.
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