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Mr. Luddite

On 2/4/2016 7:11 PM, Justan Olphart wrote:
On 2/4/2016 1:06 PM, John H. wrote:
On Thu, 04 Feb 2016 11:45:05 -0500, wrote:

On Thu, 04 Feb 2016 07:17:15 -0500, John H.
wrote:

On Wed, 03 Feb 2016 20:04:07 -0500, wrote:

On Wed, 3 Feb 2016 13:04:03 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 2/3/2016 12:16 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 3 Feb 2016 06:44:17 -0500, Keyser Söze
wrote:

I wouldn't waste the time and effort required to maintain a
personal
outdoor pool, especially one up here or further north,
considering the
shortness of the season compared to yours.

I understand the season concern but the time is not that great if
the
pool is caged and you are not dealing with leaves and other airborne
junk
It is just money. I figure it costs about $300 a year to run the
pump
and another $400-500 for chemicals. I spend 10 minutes a week
dealing
with that and I check it in the middle of the week to be sure things
are going OK. Once you get the routine down, things are very
predictable.

Nothing wrong with having a pool if you use it. Up here
an in-ground pool is, at best, neutral in terms of adding any
value to
your property though. In some cases it's a negative. It also puts a
limitation on the market for your property when it comes selling
time.
Not everyone is interested in having a pool.

I don't care. I plan on being buried in the yard next to my dogs.
"Market value" just makes my taxes higher.

Get yourself cremated first. Makes life much easier for relatives.
My mom wanted
cremation with ashes spread on her parents graves. Well, cemetery
didn't look
favorably upon that for some reason (city or county law). So the
brothers and cousins
each took a handfull and crawled around scattering a bit here and a
bit there. A
custodian came by and asked what we were doing. We told him we were
picking weeds. He
left.

It sounds more like the cemetery was just upset that they were not
being paid for an additional person put there. I know that they
charged full price to bury my grandfathers ashes on the same plot with
my grandmother and they pretty much did it with a post hole digger.

My father went in the gulf and the main cost was the 6 pack charter I
hired to take him out over the horizon. The captain asked if we wanted
to do any fishing, since we had paid for a half day. My mom and I were
OK with it but my sister freaked.
My mom wanted to be in the Boca Ciega Bay behind her home and that is
what we did.

I am not particular about how I go into the ground. I said they should
just get a buddy with a backhoe and dump me in next to the dogs. Don't
tell anyone I am dead and keep spending the money but my wife said
that would be wrong.

In real life the only people who might notice would be the people at
the Publix when I wasn't there 3 times a week. Everything I do is EFT
and credit card so if you kept up the spending, it would look normal.
I suppose no medicare claims might ring a bell

That probably how they catch people but here in South Florida it would
not be hard to find a doctor who would file false medicare claims. At
least that is what 60 minutes says. ;-)

My wife wants Arlington. I'd rather be cremated and dumped on a golf
course. But, the
wives usually get the last word.
--

Ban idiots, not guns!

In this case she surely would. ;-)

LOL. Good point.