On Dec 1, 9:06*pm, DerbyDad03 wrote:
On Dec 1, 7:10*pm, BobR wrote:





On Dec 1, 4:10*pm, DerbyDad03 wrote:

On Dec 1, 4:35*pm, BobR wrote:

On Dec 1, 1:13*pm, DerbyDad03 wrote:

On Dec 1, 10:50*am, BobR wrote:

On Dec 1, 3:26*am, harry wrote:

On Dec 1, 1:14*am, "HeyBub" wrote:

[Number 28 makes this post on-topic]

Texans will never say...:

31. When I retire, I'm movin' north.

30. Oh I just couldn't, she's only sixteen.

29. I'll take Shakespeare for 1000, Alex.

28. Duct tape won't fix that.

27. Come to think of it, I'll have a Heineken

26. We don't keep firearms in this house.

25. You can't feed that to the dog!

24. No kids in the back of the pickup, it's just not safe.

23. Wrestling is fake.

22. We're vegetarians.

21. Do you think my gut is too big?

20. I'll have grapefruit and grapes instead of biscuits and gravy.

19. Honey, we don't need another dog.

18. Who gives a damn who won the Civil War?

17. Give me the small bag of pork rinds.

16. Too many deer heads detract from the decor.

15. I just couldn't find a thing at Wal-Mart today.

14. Trim the fat off that steak.

13. Cappuccino tastes better than espresso.

12. The tires on that truck are too big.

11. I've got it all on the C: DRIVE.

10. Unsweetened tea tastes better.

9. My fiancé, Bobbie Jo, is registered at Tiffany's.

8. I've got two cases of Zima for the Super Bowl.

7. Checkmate

6. She's too young to be wearing a bikini.

5. Hey, here's an episode of "Dukes of Hazard" that we haven't seen.

4. I don't have a favorite college team.

3. You Guys.

2. Those shorts ought to be a little longer, Betty Mae.

AND THE NUMBER ONE THING THAT YOU WILL NEVER HEAR A SOUTHERN BOY SAY:

1. Nope, no more beer for me. I'm driving a whole busload of us down to
re-elect OBAMA!

Best post yet heybub. I take it you are fromTexas?

You might add, "I never employ illlegals to do work about the house."-

Nope, doesn't apply. *I am a Texan and I made that statement several
years back. *As a result, I have to do all of my own yard work and
work on the house since it's almost impossible to find anyone who
doesn't use illegals for those jobs.

On the other hand, I used to pay $35 a week to have my yard mowed and
trimmed. *I now do it myself, do a better job, and it only takes me 30
minutes to do it. *I don't mind making $70 an hour and the yard looks
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Even if that kind of math made sense, you're "making" $35 a week, not
$70 an hour.

But of course we all know that you aren't making one red cent

I pay myself the $35 that I would have paid to someone else for 30
minutes work. *The last time I used the calculator that came to $70
per hour of work. *I never said that was my only income just that I
was making $70 an hour for doing my yard. *What I still haven't
figured out is why the yard crew that used to do my yard took almost
45 minutes to do the job with two people.

As for not making one red cent....A penny saved is a penny earned.- Hide quoted text -

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Your total net worth just before cleaning your yard was $X.

What was your total net worth after you spent the 30 minutes cleaning
the yard?

If your net worth did not increase after cleaning your yard, you
didn't earn one red cent.

If your net worth did indeed increased by $35 after cleaning the yard,
please tell us where the money came from. There has to be a debit
someplace to offset the credit, unless you printed the money yourself

Had I paid an idiot like you to do my yard for me, then my net worth
would have been reduced by the $35.

$35 dollars saved is $35 dollars earned.

That's good...you're half way there. You realize that your net worth
is decreased when you spend money on services.

Now you just have to figure out that saving money isn't earning money
because it does not increase your net worth - unless of course you
invest it wisely, but that's a discussion for another thread.

Let me try using your financial logic...

The wife and I just walked the dogs instead of paying someone to do it
for us. I guess I just earned about $15.

Earlier, we cooked dinner instead of paying a chef. I don't
know...let's call it $75.

I drove myself to and from work instead of paying a cabby, that's got
to be at least $100.

Before I went to work, I ironed my own shirt, which I also laundered
over the weekend instead of paying someone to do it for me. Minimal
earnings, maybe $6.
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Note that these are all real services that people pay for. In fact,
they are all things that I have actually paid someone to do for me in
the past. By your logic, I should now be able to claim that I "earned"
$196, in one day, just by doing some every day tasks on my own instead
of paying someone to do them for me. If I do just those things
everyday, that's over $70K in "earnings" in a year.

At some point the IRS is going to come looking for me

On the other hand, had you paid all of that $70k to someone else you
would have either been $70k worse in net worth or you would have had
to earn an additional $70k to make up for all of your spending on
services that you could easily have done for yourself. My mistake,
you would have had to earn closer to $100k to offset the spending
since the IRS would have taxed the additional earnings needed to
offset your spending.