There ate thoughts that investing during a recession can become very lucrative.

I've survived a few "end of the world" panics (viet name war, cold war, 87' crash, noro virus, dot com bubble, great recession, 2008 real estate market crash, SARS, Ebola, bad raccoon I once ate, on and on, you know the drill, been there done that and the world still goes on.)

But the truth is, if you have your buying criteria and fiscal fundamentals down to a tee: for instance, BUY FOR CASHFLOW and set your BREAKEVEN OCCUPANCY threshold, then you should just buy Real Estate. 

For good deals with reputable wholesalers, there will be lots of savvy, well-capitalized buyers that know their numbers to a tee.

We went ahead & ate the cost of this one as it's a multi unit building.

Don’t buy the first thing you ate shown.When they found out I was a “California Investor” they initially were trying to show me SFRs going for $175K that had a gross rent of $925/mo and I was being told this is phenomenal compared to California

You pay the worst part of depreciation on a vehicle from years 0-2, so if you have owned it 2 years or more you've almost certainly ate all of the massive depreciation already and the car is just about to get cheaper to own.

I know all about hustle: I woke/wake up at 4:00 a.m. to exercise every morning, ate/eat a very healthy diet all while I worked 3 jobs during my last year of high school (2 jobs since the age of 16) and saved every penny to buy myself a car with cash and begin saving.

An honorable mention is The Fish That Ate The Whale: The Life And Times Of America's Banana King by Rich Cohen.

When I was in the Marines, I once spent a month in the Moroccan desert and we just dug beds in the hot sand, ate cold military rations, and bathed in the Atlantic, which is the most minimalistic that I've ever lived, but it was also one of the simplest and most joyous times of my life.