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Fuelman » 23 Jan 2026, 9:20 am » wrote: ↑

23 Jan 2026, 9:20 am

Only 40% of households have the house paid for. Doing that by 45 years old is pretty rare. 
 
20 years of no mortgage payments before retirement is a good place to be, good on you!

The investment volatility was uncomfortable in our past.  It is now too.

We put our 401K's  into ownership of  our home years ago. An inheritance also helped our economic security.

An associate inherited some Sherwin Williams stock which we cashed out a big chunk of it  a year ago at a peak  $389 a share in November when I had jitters of a Trump crash. It's at $348 this morning. It has not gotten past that peak we sold at since.  I regret not flipping it all at that time.

There was no will for the transfer of the stock.  Getting the transaction done was extremely difficult.  But we got  the stock in his name just in the nick of time.

Getting what I have in the stalker market out is a priority right now.  I have those same jitters now.  Our shyt is going to collapse in a reset. A New Crypto World Order is in impmentation right now.