Funny (ironic-style), as I AM doing a “bbq” (grilling tri-tips over propane, you snobs) this weekend. Having my brother and his family over, as we have not seen them in a year.
No hot dogs and bubba burgers?
It implied that b/c my salary is merely what it is, I come from a place that I cannot understand financial risk/reward and/or cost benefit analysis. Especially, since I’m not an actuary who has not experience the Bataan Death March that is the altruistic path of becoming an actuary who lives and breathes for financial analysis to best serve the needs of policy holders in times of need (balanced of course with the thirst of shareholders for return on capital (another term I guess I’m not supposed to know).
All hail St. Actuarius, the meek and humble servant to preservation of capital.
Bullshit.
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That’s a nice grill. It’s what I want, but my Weber (the cheapest model from 14 years ago) won’t die, in fact it’s still in very good shape. The iGrill is no joke, I have one and it works flawlessly. I tried a knock-off bluetooth thermometer thing and it was garbage, I forget the brand. Buy quality, cry once, or whatever.
I do like the St. Actuarius though…
actuaries actually suck at risk reward optimization imo
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That’s what I’m hoping for, a nice long life. Yes, in my grill, too!
My old grill (Vermont Castings, owned by Canadian Tire now) was 15-18 years old or so.
Well I’m not an actuary either. I work for a living.
Badaboom.
Also I couldn’t take the pay cut.
See now we’re getting spicy
I’ve bought some pretty extravagant trips. Took a trip around the world for 6 weeks, been on safari multiple times,… I spend a fair amount on sports tickets which is definitely an extravagance. I’ll occasionally spring for a top end restaurant, but usually go to neighborhood type places.
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IFYP
um, you know you’re on a forum of actuaries, right? why are you talking to actuaries if you think they all suck?
hmm…
Last year (September) when I took the family to Mallorca, I paid for a Grand Suite at a very upscale boutique hotel in Palma. Spent about £10,000 for 5 days.
That was definitely splurging.
That was a lot of words I didn’t know. Not surprising, I know I’m ignorant of large parts of the planet. So, a Spanish island. Noice.
I was just mentioning that I’d love to spend time on Greek islands, if I can convince my so to fly. Mallorca looks similiar.
i guess it’s too bad ur not an actuary because if u were you’d be much happier
Literally lol
I just remembered the most extravagant thing I ever bought. Some would say that it was the $1.2 million house that I only lived in for a year (others would say I only actually bought 10% of it), but that’s only partially correct. It was those god damn window wells.
When the quote came in for the non-corrugated steal window wells (they kind of looked like real thick, square wood planks; we had only asked about them since they were installed on the model home) the email said something around $2 k - $3 k. I thought to myself, hmm, not bad - but, stupid question - is that all the window wells included, or just one? AND IT WAS JUST ONE.
The total window well cost was well over 18 thousand dollars. Ex went for it because he really had some deep seated issues regarding corrugated steal window wells. Everything from that point on was priced in terms of window well units. Fireplace? That’ll be 5 window wells. Kids college fund? Go get your window wells.
Sweet Jeebus. We spent roughly that much on an iron fence and it was really hard to write that check, I don’t think I could part with $18k for window well treatments. Maybe one or two if they were in prominent rooms.
This was the issue. We put a bedroom in the basement, but because it was so big, it legally required a gigantic window on the front of the house (didn’t fit beside the second side window structurally). You could theoretically walk 2 people side by side (ducking) through this window. And being on the front of the house, steal was going to look ugly.
Just getting one was probably an option but when the house is that expensive already you can’t have things that don’t match, apparently. This includes kitchen appliances too - ex literally laughed at me when I suggested getting a wine fridge that wasn’t Thermador.
I was basically dating Jas omg.
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