Yearly Archives: 2017

Liquidate A Hoarder House
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Liquidate A Hoarder House

Liquidate a Hoarder House To date, I have liquidated the contents of four entire “hoarder” houses and dozens of apartments (deadbeat tenants often walk out leaving a lot if not everything behind!).  One house was so packed, I had to work from within two garbage cans to make enough room just to get in the […]

Retiring in Mexico
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Retiring in Mexico

SAN MIGUEL ALLENDE, MEXICO AS A RETIREMENT DESTINATION As many in my “boomer” generation are approaching retirement, we are all looking for ways to stretch our savings and reduce living costs. One plan a friend and I conceived of was to look at places to retire outside the United States.  We decided to search out […]

Downshifting Into Humility
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Downshifting Into Humility

On my 40th birthday, my wife took me out for dinner. It was an amazing meal at David Bouley’s restaurant in New York City, which, if you have not been there, is “to die for.” About halfway through, my wife said she wanted to give me my birthday present, but that I would have to guess what it was. […]

WAIT for the Pain?
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WAIT for the Pain?

I was in the hospital recently for an ambulatory abdominal surgery that lasted 3 hours.  In the recovery room, I was feeling no pain and after the wooziness wore off, I showed that I could drink a cup of coffee and eat a tuna salad sandwich, which in my locality is the ticket to walk. […]

How To Legally Break 110 MPH
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How To Legally Break 110 MPH

If you like going fast but are tired of getting speeding tickets and risking a serious accident, there is a way that is legal, relatively safe and lots of fun. If you own a fast exotic car, like a Corvette, Ferrari or Lamborgini, you probably already know that you can take your car to a […]

Why Not Single-Payer Auto Insurance?
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Why Not Single-Payer Auto Insurance?

Many boomer-age Americans believe that the time is ripe for automobile insurance “reform.”  Current liability and collision coverage policies are built around the most costly, inefficient model – that is, multiple commercial insurances that drive wasteful complexity and high administrative costs. Commercial multi-payer auto insurances rely on public subsidies to preserve private insurance profits. The private […]

What is, “Net Worth” and What’s Yours?
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What is, “Net Worth” and What’s Yours?

One topic that comes up when Boomer Guys get together to have a few drinks and talk is Net Worth.  This topic might come up in your group of guys, and maybe you don’t know your net worth.  Maybe you don’t even know (or care) what net worth is.  So here’s a few answers, just […]

Secret Colors Attract Women
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Secret Colors Attract Women

Okay, this article is going to sound lame at first, but hear me out. Imagine that you had an inside track on a simple, weird technique that could work like a top-notch fishing lure, or a radar homing beacon, or like the smell of coffee and bacon in the morning when it comes to getting […]