Munger said to marry with low expectations, they sound too high maintenance… How about a power drill?
Avoid personal trainers, they often run off with them…
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Well, it’s either that, or this www.countrylife.co.uk/international-property/sale/ireland/ki……
Just a hair over 20 shares.
20 shares for a fixer-upper like that?
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20 shares for a fixer-upper like that?
I wondered about that too. “Now unoccupied but largely intact” does not inspire much confidence.
But really, the 16th century castle is thrown in for free.
The main cost is the 1745 country house Sopwell Hall, which is fully restored and ready for habitation.
That main house is 14,235 square feet. Enough for a cosy cottage, but there’s another 4000 in sundry dependencies.
I gather that the castle is mainly for looking at, and bragging rights.
But if you like to fixer-up, I suppose it is also a fixer-upper.
Jim
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She has been dropping hints about a cottage…but I’m thinking maybe a new vacuum cleaner
A very clever man. So during this holiday season, I bought a diamond necklace (low 5 figures) to my wife and when we went to Costco for milk we picked up a air fryer for $35 ~$40. She talked about that air fryer to her sisters, during our dinner with friends, yada, yada… Never once mentioned about that necklace. The only time she mentioned is last week, we need to go to bank and put it in locker.
sigh… I think Jim’s choice of vaccum cleaner may be better. Especially if the old one weights a ton. He may get more thanks honey’s for that.
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I bought my wife a fax machine for her birthday one year(no joke). The engineer in me thought it would be “practical”. Besides, that I needed one.
The advice I got years ago was to also get her a comfortable sofa that would fit in the backyard shed. Because that’s where I’d be sleeping.
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I bought a diamond necklace (low 5 figures) to my wife and when we went to Costco for milk we picked up a air fryer for $35 ~$40. She talked about that air fryer to her sisters, during our dinner with friends, yada, yada… Never once mentioned about that necklace.
Was she wearing it at the dinner? If so, she did not need to talk about it. Believe me, all the other women noticed it. She got more points for not mentioning it.
Men don’t understand women.
A few years back we were taking a cruise out of Miami. We fly in a day ahead and stayed at a hotel which included a bus shuttle to the pier. The bus made half-a-dozen hotel pickups and ours was the first, so we were in about the 3rd row, me at window she at aisle. At the 3rd stop I remarked at how so many of the women getting on were all dressed up and decked out with necklaces, etc. I said, “Why? We’re on a bus, we are all going on the same ship, nobody here to impress.”
My wife said, “Wrong!! Every women is checking out all the other women as they get on and evaluating the gold & diamonds they are wearing. It’s only you men that don’t look at that.”
Later on, a local jeweler had a Xmas sale of 1 ct diamond rings for like $1000. Of course, the diamonds were not of the highest quality, but still … 1 carat. I was going to buy her one, and she said, “Not one. Two.” Huh?? Took the diamonds out and had them put into a pair of earrings. People will grab a hand a look close at the ring while “admiring” it. And, of course, see that it has a crappy diamond. But they can’t do that to an earring.
I said that the stone in the earring is so big that it looks phoney. She gave an exasperated sigh and said, “No, women can tell it’s a real diamond and not a phoney.”
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Another piece of hard-earned wisdom: even if it is a beautiful expensive heated one, a toilet seat is not a suitable birthday gift. Not sure why, doesn’t it show that I listen when she complains?
“No, women can tell it’s a real diamond and not a phoney.”
My wife can see the difference. She wears very little jewelry, but has an advanced degree in geology. better than low expectations is a wife who can earn more money than you:)
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Well, it’s either that, or this www.countrylife.co.uk/international-property/sale/ireland/ki……
Just a hair over 20 shares.
Looks drafty. Maybe something a bit smaller in a place with better weather?
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I can’t be the only one who’s never heard of an “Investment Ranch”… what kind of roping skills do they use? 
Perhaps roping in patsies?
Go Dyson, mungo!