Boomers Downsize for Retirement Abroad

You spend half your life collecting treasures and half your life getting rid of stuff.

I'm happy to still be in collecting mode.
;-)

You must subscribe to 'He who dies with the most toys, wins.' Ruth. LOL I've always liked that bumper sticker, you never know if the person with it on their bumper believes it or is being facetious. I know which it would be in my case.

Collecting 'stuff' is a waste of time and money. Given a choice between your most precious 'treasure' and another day of life, which do you suppose you would choose? It's all just 'stuff' Ruth.

as someone who has 'contributed' to Ruth's collection of 'stuff'... PLEASE don't encourage her to stop collecting!. I do think collecting 'stuff' if very much a part of a certain time of your life, and most of us here on the OT have passed that stage...it's part of 'nest building', and we are no longer building those nests... if there were any fledglings, they have flown, and the older we get, the more we have and/or collect, the more we have to dust! I hate dusting, and love travelling. Ergo, i must declutter.

Ruth knows all about this dusting problem, since she is my 'domestic goddess'!!! so i am happy to have someone around who appreciates a gift of my mothers silverware, or china, or crystal..... and when she decides it is too much 'stuff' for her, i hope she finds someone else to pass it on to!

~~grins~~

You own something, it owns you.

And to quote Wayworn
'You can't apply logic to an emotional issue.'

America is amazingly free of corruption, in that at least the average person is not faced with having to pay bribes as part of everyday life.

That is simply not true. However, since I am still living here, I am limited in what I can say since I still have to go along to get along. But I'm amazed that people feel the need to post things that are simply not true. Just don't post rather than post a fib, K thx. :-)

You must live in a weird part of the USA peachfront.

#47 & 48
It depends where you look. While in country X, in Africa or South Am, it'll be a bribe paid in cash, or a money transfer to a Swiss account, in America it'll be much more sophisticated. In countries like America, and in Europe, it's usually made in a quasi legal way, using loopholes of the law system.
Generally, it's considered that in military industry and weapon trade no business is being done without bribes (or I should find a better word). And that's a huge volume in money terms, which will never find it's way into the statistics.

Fieldgate, the corruption being talked about and that peachfront says she is exposed to, is by the average person in everyday life. Not the weapons trade.