Two menopausal, single women, what a delight.

Painting with cheap paint is like trying to roll on food coloring... it's messy and very hard to get right.A good roller is important.

Food for thought...

Getting the seller down in price is a process where they have to eat the bad food in small bites to accept it.

I wouldn't rent rooms though because having that many unrelated people in a household might be a violation and if you live there they will befriend you and will inevitably end up not paying rent and/or becoming dependent on you for rides to places, food, cleaning, etc

I was actually thinking she was "old fashion" but I was easily spending $20.00 most days on food and coffee and I felt broke all the time.

It is unlikeley that there is no income whatsoever but she may qualify for at least food stamps.

By year 20 ~$1,600,000 AFTER taking out $50k/yr to fund point number 3)3) After year 7 or so, taking out $50k per year and putting it in the stock market (totaling $1.5M)(Not to mention that none of this money is going towards funding my life (food, cars, entertainment, etc.) - All of that type of stuff is being funded by my lucrative job - which is what also allows me to invest 50-60k per year!

We're still not %100 decided, but this post has given us plenty of food for thought.

We ranked all our monthly expenses with a 1 to 5. 1 being absolutely essential like food and shelter, 5 being totally frivelous - stuff we were spending money on which was neither necessary or enjoyable to us, like a storage unit we had because I couldn't be bothered to organize our garage more to make space for the stuff in the storage unit. 3 we would use for things which were not necessary, but we enjoyed.