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Starting to invest at age 40, what do I need to know?
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Date: June 14th, 2026 7:03 AM Author: Brilliant balding stead (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5874089&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49937363) |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 9:28 AM Author: Charismatic Milk Fanboi Literally am in the Same boat but check out my story.
Put off investing for ages bc too pussy.
When I finally went in I was stupid and went all in on a specialized long short fund in Feb that did great at first that has been down only since April when the mkt went up 20% and is flat now. So I freed up some more cash and bought vgt at literally the top ($124.5) one week ago and watched it fall 10% and now I want to die. |
Date: June 14th, 2026 7:44 AM Author: frisky state striped hyena https://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3025754&mc=227&forum_id=2
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Date: June 14th, 2026 7:45 AM Author: Dashing set boiling water buy Bitcoin and forget about it
https://www.blockchaincenter.net/bitcoin-rainbow-chart/
*this is not financial advice |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 7:49 AM Author: Brilliant balding stead I have about:
$100k in regular random stocks
$250k in my 401k all basically SPY
$50k in BTC
$200k equity in home
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Date: June 14th, 2026 3:00 PM Author: hairraiser effete organic girlfriend garrison What stocks? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5874089&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49938065) |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 7:46 AM Author: exhilarant nubile menage I guess try to get Lucky since you’re starting so late (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5874089&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49937383) |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 7:47 AM Author: Brilliant balding stead I don’t understand the compound interest thing in a 401k. Aren’t you just investing in an index of stocks that go up? How is that compound interest? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5874089&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49937385) |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 7:53 AM Author: exhilarant nubile menage If nothing else there’s a dividend yield that gets reinvested
Anyway if it goes up by 8% 2 years in a row that’s technically compound interest
There are other forms of interest that don’t compound per se such as the interest paid on a Bond iirc. |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 7:54 AM Author: Brilliant balding stead Gotcha. I’m very far behind. But my NW is about $600k I guess. Plus I’ll get $100k from her grandfather when he dies I guess. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5874089&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49937391) |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 12:55 PM Author: gay potus If you buy 100 dollars worth of SPY today and it goes up 10% a year you have 110 next year. If you put in another hundred you have 210 invested. At the end of year 2 you have 231. You buy in another hundred that's 331. At the end of year 3 you have 364. If you didn't invest at all you'd have 300 which would be worth about 288 after inflation. Would you rather have 364 dollars (worth about 352 after inflation) or 300 dollars. Now add 3 zeros to these numbers. 364,000 or 300,000. In one scenario you made a year's worth of salary of the average person and you beat inflation by a substantial amount. 352k or 288k. The person who didn't invest is really far behind.
In one scenario your investment is compounding as you make gains on your principle and on your gains. It compounds brother. Not doing anything is ttt af. |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 1:05 PM Author: Brilliant balding stead So I have $250k in my 401k and it’s in SPY. Am I good? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5874089&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49937949) |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 1:11 PM Author: gay potus It's always good to have your core retirement in SPY. You should also have a more aggressive risk sleeve seeing as the market is in a historically significant bull run. Given the chip stock boom you want to own some NVDA AMD INTEL MU SNDK SOXL type shit. You should have an edge account where you go for the moon and then when you make a lot of gains pull out of your risk sleeve and dump it back into SPY for stability. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5874089&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49937958) |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 1:16 PM Author: Brilliant balding stead Had $20k of MU at $64 during the Trump Tarriffs and sold It at $70 for a quick $4k lmao. If I held I’d have $200k. |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 1:16 PM Author: gay potus Here's some investing advice:
Never sell |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 5:47 PM Author: Brilliant balding stead Thanks (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5874089&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49938426) |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 6:04 PM Author: hairraiser effete organic girlfriend garrison i can beat that. i bought $4,000 of AAPL in 2000 a little bit before the presidential election. i doubled or tripled it and sold it.
i happened to calculate the other day what i'd have if i'd held. something like $4.2 million. |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 6:08 PM Author: Brilliant balding stead Oh Jesus. Makes me feel better. Guess we need to hold. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5874089&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49938489) |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 6:10 PM Author: hairraiser effete organic girlfriend garrison i've put like 50k each into PLTR, TSLA, NVDA and MU. i figure at least three of these are going to have apple-like gains over the next 20 years. not selling. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5874089&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49938501) |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 6:14 PM Author: Brilliant balding stead Yeah definitely. I look at my $100k stock account as my “find MU again PLZ god” account.
My 457 I just max out by July then I can contribute to a 401k which is amazing because my cap is basically $50k a year. 457 I can take out upon retirement with no age.
I have $250k in SPY in the 457 and like $150k in SPY in the 401k but I don’t count it because I can’t touch it until I’m 59 or whatever. |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 6:15 PM Author: hairraiser effete organic girlfriend garrison when i make equity at the end of this year, i can put like $70k into the 401k plan. gonna do all ROTH 401(k). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5874089&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49938511) |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 6:16 PM Author: Brilliant balding stead Very nice man. And you’ll have more to fuck with too in your brokerage. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5874089&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49938514) |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 6:19 PM Author: hairraiser effete organic girlfriend garrison trying to stack like $3m in brokerage acct over the next 3 years so i can be fully financially independent. it's nice to know i can stop working if i want.
i can already leave law if i chose to do that, because our expenses are reasonable and wife and i have like $3m in 401(k)s and IRAs, which over 20 years will turn into like $15m or whatever. it's nice knowing that i could walk away from the profession if i wanted to (oddly, or perhaps fittingly, now that i CAN leave, i enjoy the work way more). |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 6:21 PM Author: Brilliant balding stead Oh shit. That’s good money. What age will you retire from law? No doobs yoU can give a range. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5874089&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49938541) |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 6:28 PM Author: hairraiser effete organic girlfriend garrison i really don't know. i'm 47 now, and i actually have a lot of fun doing it. the last couple years my book has been around $2m, so i'm interested in trying to grow my book just to see if i can. comp next year is likely gonna be like $800k or more, which is insane to me. (getting to $3m in brokerage acct is obviously a stretch and assumes significant returns,w hich probably isn't realistic but if i got to $1.5m, i could probably retire).
i was thinking of maybe in 3-5 years handing off my book to a junior partner who used to work for me as an associate at BAKER AND HOSTETLER and recently lateraled here, and just telling the firm to pay me like $300-375k and i'll work like 800 hours a year. not sure tho.
i'm also thinking about leaving law entirely by like 53-54 and opening a coffee bar. i worked at one in college and i really liked it. i'd only do this if i had enough to straight up retire, because you have to assume the biz would fail. |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 6:33 PM Author: Brilliant balding stead Very nice. That’s a good age to do it. Any earlier, unless you have fuck you money, is too early to sustain the lifestyle. You’ll be out of this shit professional with enough time to enjoy your golden years. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5874089&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49938586) |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 6:44 PM Author: hairraiser effete organic girlfriend garrison brother we gonna maek it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5874089&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49938632) |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 11:55 PM Author: gay potus 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5874089&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49939409) |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 8:09 AM Author: Electric cobalt mediation water buffalo no matter when you start, investing is just hoping to get Lucky (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5874089&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49937412) |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 1:16 PM Author: gay potus There's a lot more to it than luck. SPY has gone up 14x since it's inception in the early 90s. If you had 100k invested on day 1 you'd have 1.4 million thirty years later. In that same time span the dollar has lost two thirds of its value. Now picking winners and losers has an element of luck to it for sure. But if you just buy the market you're betting that America will figure out how to make more money next year than it did this year. And this almost always happens with a high level of degree of certainty. It's been true since the American stock market began it has gone up forever. So yes it's a gamble because short term the market could crash but it always rebounds. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5874089&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49937967) |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 7:57 AM Author: Snowy unholy gas station Just put everything in a S&P fund like VOO or FXAIX and forget about it until retirement. If you want to diversify, do 50% VOO 30% VTI and 20% VSUX. These are ETFs covering the S&P, the broader total stock market, and international funds.
Don't ever sell till retirement. Ignore market swings. You lose more money panic selling than leaving the fund alone and accepting the bear markets every now and then. |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 8:03 AM Author: Clear love of her life deer antler Fuck that: http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5874026&forum_id=2#49937400 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5874089&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49937406) |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 9:24 AM Author: Charismatic Milk Fanboi Why not do something like 50% VTI 50% VGT? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5874089&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49937533) |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 8:04 AM Author: Arousing persian 40 is too late just yolo til you die (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5874089&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49937408) |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 8:04 AM Author: Drunken Knife Jewess I am not sure if bitcoin us good or bad. Spmo is a good index better than s&p (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5874089&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49937409) |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 9:43 AM Author: metal appetizing international law enforcement agency box office what about QQQ? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5874089&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49937568) |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 9:44 AM Author: Brilliant balding stead I have about:
$100k in regular random stocks
$250k in my 401k all basically SPY
$50k in BTC
$200k equity in home
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Date: June 14th, 2026 9:45 AM Author: 180 Chocolate Plaza (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5874089&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49937572) |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 1:13 PM Author: Aromatic primrose stage hissy fit I have been investing all my life, and it's almost killed me. Now I'm just on the long slow decline, on my way out. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5874089&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49937960) |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 1:13 PM Author: silver thirsty dilemma brethren jfc i already have roths building up for my kids and they are all under 5 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5874089&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49937961) |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 1:20 PM Author: Galvanic principal's office death wish The professional class will be gassed (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5874089&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49937976) |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 1:25 PM Author: Brilliant balding stead I have about:
$100k in regular random stocks
$250k in my 401k all basically SPY
$50k in BTC
$200k equity in home
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Date: June 14th, 2026 1:19 PM Author: Passionate amber gaming laptop parlor you've come to the right place (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5874089&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49937974) |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 1:27 PM Author: Lascivious topaz marketing idea https://x.com/NSMAUSofficial/status/2066054808977752410?s=20 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5874089&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49937995) |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 5:30 PM Author: hairraiser effete organic girlfriend garrison do this: 40% VOO, 20% FBTC, 20% SMH, 20% VGT or QQQM (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5874089&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49938383) |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 5:48 PM Author: Brilliant balding stead I already have $250k in spy in my 401k (457). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5874089&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49938428) |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 5:58 PM Author: hairraiser effete organic girlfriend garrison you could honestly just leave it in that and let it ride, but i think putting money in tech and bitcoin is a smart move. i'm not recommending VOO over SPY or whatever, they;'re the same (although VOO is cheaper) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5874089&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49938460) |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 6:00 PM Author: silver thirsty dilemma brethren op these were the guys all talking about tezzies and speculating on shit coins for liek 5 years straight (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5874089&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49938464) |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 6:05 PM Author: hairraiser effete organic girlfriend garrison i've been investing since probably before you could walk and i have no idea what a tessie is. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5874089&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49938479) |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 6:06 PM Author: silver thirsty dilemma brethren dont make me pull up ur crypto bort poasts zurich (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5874089&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49938483) |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 6:09 PM Author: hairraiser effete organic girlfriend garrison i have bitcoin, ethereum, and solana. i put maybe $2k into dogecoin for shits and giggles. my investment in solana was like $25-30k.
i have a significant % of my 401k in the bitcoin etf (and a smaller amount in ethereum), but i have never speculated on shitcoins or whatever. |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 6:03 PM Author: Brilliant balding stead Thanks. My bad it’s not SPY but it’s the fund’s equivalent to SPY. I looked at it side by side and the investments are basically identical (in the pamphlet it has a side by side with SPY). I think the expense ratio is very cheap too I think lower than VOO.
I have $100k in a bunch of different stocks. I’ll give it to you here:
$ONON $APPL $INFQ $SERV $HBM $ANET $RKT $STN
Apple being my biggest win so far I got it around $110.
I have $50k in BTC too but I bought at $70k when it was dipping so I might be fucked.
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Date: June 14th, 2026 6:08 PM Author: hairraiser effete organic girlfriend garrison i'm a believer in investing in index funds/sector funds over individual stocks, but i have put a significant amount lately into NVDA, MU, PLTR and TSLA. i'm basing this purely on surface-level knowledge but i'd probably not want to be in apple, at least not as a big % of my portfolio. seems like the returns won't be much different from the S&P at this point. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5874089&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49938488) |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 6:09 PM Author: Brilliant balding stead Gotcha makes sense. I read that a lot about apple. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5874089&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49938491) |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 6:10 PM Author: Brilliant balding stead I got destroyed on ONON thanks to a $99 two year deal for Motley Fool lol. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5874089&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49938504) |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 5:35 PM Author: Carnelian Razzmatazz Filthpig Shrine Lesson 1: Do not wait till 40 to start investing (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5874089&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49938405) |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 5:47 PM Author: Brilliant balding stead Thanks (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5874089&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49938425) |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 5:38 PM Author: Histrionic brass wrinkle nursing home go all in SOXS, its free money (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5874089&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49938412) |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 6:02 PM Author: Alcoholic legend school cafeteria call options on that is even better (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5874089&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49938472) |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 6:17 PM Author: Histrionic brass wrinkle nursing home I hit 1m around 40 and that was around Covid and I got scared and went only like 15% equities and missed out on the fast comeback. Then I furked up shit with QQQ covered calls and missed out on 100k profit. Then last year I actually "won" with Orange Man's tariffs and made a huge profit to only ruin it this year betting against the market during Iran War and now my NW is only like 25% above what it was at age 40 (granted I have no work income but still)
If I had just put 80% in equities at 40, half in SPY and half in QQQ I'd have at least 1.6m now (I dont even want to calculate it, it prob cld be closer to 2m)
So dont be retarded like me but it depends how much money u have and if u want to risk it. If I had put shit in chip stocks Id have like 5m now ljl |
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Date: June 15th, 2026 10:39 AM Author: hairraiser effete organic girlfriend garrison my wife and i got to $1m combined around when you did, in mid-2020 (around april/may). we are around $3m now, plus i'm gay.
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Date: June 15th, 2026 10:55 AM Author: Histrionic brass wrinkle nursing home yes nigga i suck but wld need to know how much income u've made since then, and u have two incomes. so furk u benchod ive literally made $0 since 2019 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5874089&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49940068) |
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Date: June 15th, 2026 6:16 PM Author: hairraiser effete organic girlfriend garrison good point. we have made millions since then but have spent much of it on taxes and kids. fuck my life. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5874089&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49940839) |
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Date: June 15th, 2026 10:52 AM Author: Aromatic primrose stage hissy fit My wife and I hit $1m in Feb 2021. Now we’re at $2.45m. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5874089&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49940055) |
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Date: June 15th, 2026 10:56 AM Author: Histrionic brass wrinkle nursing home yes but half of that is goin to ur wife when she runs off with darnell (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5874089&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49940071) |
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Date: June 15th, 2026 10:58 AM Author: silver thirsty dilemma brethren way more than half (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5874089&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49940075) |
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Date: June 15th, 2026 10:58 AM Author: Aromatic primrose stage hissy fit She's got 4 kids, mang, she's going nowhere. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5874089&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49940078) |