Losing All Your Possesions

Reminds me of a joke my Mom told me recently.
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There was a man who had worked all his life, had saved all of his money, and was a real “miser” when it came to his money.

Just before he died, he said to his wife…”When I die, I want you to take all my money and put it in the casket with me. I want to take my money to the afterlife with me.”

And so he got his wife to promise him, with all of her heart, that when he died, she would put all of the money into the casket with him.

Well, he died. He was stretched out in the casket, his wife was sitting there - dressed in black, and her friend was sitting next to her. When they finished the ceremony, and just before the undertakers got ready to close the casket, the wife said,

“Wait just a moment!”

She had a small metal box with her; she came over with the box and put it in the casket. Then the undertakers locked the casket down and they rolled it away. So her friend said,

“Girl, I know you were not fool enough to put all that money in there with your husband.”

The loyal wife replied, “Listen, I cannot go back on my word. I promised him that I was going to put that money into the casket with him.”

You mean to tell me you put that money in the casket with him!?!?!?”

“I sure did,” said the wife. “I got it all together, put it into my account, and wrote him a check…. If he can cash it, then he can spend it.”

 

I wish I could have done better. It seems that your wife
needs status. In my searching just now it seems that this
is common in women.

This is a matter for a good marriage counselor. This probably
will not work. Doing nothing will certainly not work.

http://www.google.com/search?num=10...result&cd=1&q=good+marriage+counselor&spell=1

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(I have not read the book below. It just confirms what you
have been saying about the wife. I have no idea if it can
be helpful in your situation. It may just be more confirmation
of a problem which is indeed obvious. I also just did a search
of the word 'status' at the same book at the Amazon site.
The word comes up MANY times in the book.)

What Women Want-What Men Want: Why the Sexes Still See Love and Commitment So Differently

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Wh...n-Want/John-Marshall-Townsend/e/9780195131031

Excerpt from link:

Men want young, beautiful women and casual sexual relationships; women look for committed relationships with men of wealth and status.

 

i'm just a special needs kid who doesn't have stuff to lose so I dunno how to answer but doctors told me years ago i lost some of my brain but also told me in time they hope it will get better...

By the way..i have some paint for my bicycle and it says to mix 1 part of the paint with 1 part water....does that mean i just put like a cup of paint in a bucket and then add a cup of water to it and then stir it with a stick and then use it?

 

Joey, mixing with a stick in a bucket is improper and will lead to streaks. Instead, put 1 part paint concentrate in the kitchen blender; add 1 part water; and run the blender on High with the top off. Don't ask for help from mommy; she will be proud of you if you do it all by yourself. If this doesn't work the first time, try 5 parts paint to 5 parts water and blend on High again.

 

thanks for the concern. We tried the counselors but they were so pathetic. Instead of telling us to buckle down and deal with things they acted like you could create masterpieces with finger paints -- if we could just communicate better.

It was such bullshit. The bottomline is money. Now I am making it again and guess what.

 

It must seem to you that rich and successful people all have bad relationships and no girlfriends, thats the most ridioclous generalization ever.

When in reality most women chase the most well established men.

Men can either choose or not choose to have a good relationship with their wives and children, its optional
Some are too power hungry, ego centric, and don't really care,

The reason why:
They can pickup another women in a split second because of their wealth and status, That is why they do not care.



For everybody else who thinks having family, children is some sort of success story, don't kid yourself, that imo , in my whole life was the easiest to accomplish, all it took was some time and affection.

Money on the other hand, was mt everest.

 

regarding losing all your possessions.
During the whole market crash and multiple others 2000, obviously I and many others who did watch their sh1t did not lose a dime,


It is a mans responsbility to always keep their status/account/balances/money in check.

RESPONSBILITY.

Always remember, whover/where ever you are right now as of this moment , it was all YOU.
If you failed/gone nowhere, it was because you are a uselses piece of s. who didn't have his stuff in check
If you succeed, it was because you did have it in check



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in reality, children/wife, are easy to "fall back" on so you can still call yourself a successful man cause you got "a loving family" , when you didn't take care of your own responsbility, so now your kids/wife will have to suffer with you..

in poverty.




Good luck in poverty, at least you have children to still greet you with respect when you should expect NONE because you deserve NONE. <b>You failed them as a responsbile provider.

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This equivalent to caveman days, when the man goes out hunting and does not bring back an ounce of meat in fact he loses a leg in a failed hunt,
Sure he will go back to his starving wife and children waiting for the man to bring something home, except all he bought home was a broken leg.


Now they will all starve.



To call this man a successful man because he has a loving family would be a disgrace and insult to the people who did bring home the bacon.

 

Quote from coolweb:

It must seem to you that rich and successful people all have bad relationships and no girlfriends, thats the most ridioclous generalization ever.

Where in "Many rich and successful people" does it generalize to "All"?

The point was quite obvious. You made it clear you don't associate with the wrong kinds of people. That was the purpose of the above response.