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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Conyers GA
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IWS #153 - Results
I had a ton of responses to this and am glad to kick IWS back off. Here's hoping this can once again become a regular feature here.
Questions: 1) What is your annual income? The runaway winner here was $50,000 with 21 people giving that response. Basically, if that wasn't your answer, you lost, since the second highest response was $75,000 with 7 answers. 2) How much credit card debt do you have right now? Zero was a good answer here, both in matching Stupid as well as making good financial sense. Here's my PSA to everyone: GET OUT OF CREDIT CARD DEBT!!! Okay enough preaching. The top answers were: $0 - 11 responses $5,000 - 11 responses $10,000 - 8 responses 3) How much is your monthly car payment? $300 was Stupid's answer here with 13 responses. Next was $500 with 9. 4) How much money will you need to save in a retirement account before you can retire? I was very surprised to see answers between $50,000 and $80,000 here. Maybe they know something I don't, but Stupid was actually pretty smart here with the most popular answer of $1,000,000. You love the nice round number, don't you Stupid? 5) When you think of money, who first comes to mind? I guess this was to be expected, but Bill Gates was a clear winner here with 26 responses. I chuckled at the person who answered 'wife' though. If she's anything like mine, she's kind of the opposite of Bill Gates. 6) If you could invest $10,000 in a company's stock today, which company would you choose. I'm sure mainly because of its proximity to question 5, many people answered Microsoft (13 responses). But the winner was Google with 15. Apple also did well with 10. |
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Coordinator
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Conyers GA
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Not counting their pennies:
-------------------------- 46 Dodgerchick 45 LoneStarGirl 44 MIJB#19 43 SnDvls 42 CU Tiger 41 Warhammer 40 finkenst Thinking about starting to count their pennies: -------------------------------------------- 39 MikeVic 38 MizzouRah 37 Cringer 36 dangarion 35 panerd 34 MrBug708 33 k0ruptr 32 B & B 31 ColtCrazy 30 Sublime 2 Piggy bank starting to fill up: --------------------------- 29 Vince 28 Greyroofoo 27 stevew 26 digamma 25 Eaglesfan27 24 Logan 23 oliegirl 22 ThunderingHERD 21 Masked 20 NoSkillz Has a checking account AND a savings account: ---------------------------------------------- 19 jeheinz72 18 Castlerock 17 Karlifornia 16 Lathum 15 Toddzilla 14 Butter_of_69 13 lighthousekeeper 12 Pyser 11 General Mike 10 Mustang Making smart investments: ------------------------- 9 st.cronin 8 Coffee Warlord 7 Radii 6 BrianD Living high on the hog: ---------------------- 5 Raiders Army 4 QuikSand 3 Passacaglia 2 Joe And the Oracle of Omaha himself: -------------------------------- TazFTW Congrats to Taz!!! He's the winner of IWS #153. Last edited by KWhit : 03-10-2008 at 01:16 PM. |
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#3 |
Favored Bitch #1
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: homeless in NJ
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I had forgoten about this
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Appleton, WI
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The car payment question is going to kill me.
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#5 |
Coordinator
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Conyers GA
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Posted. See above.
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#6 |
Pro Starter
Join Date: Jul 2001
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grats Taz
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#7 |
General Manager
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: New Mexico
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500$ car payment? How is that even possible?
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Appleton, WI
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#9 |
General Manager
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: New Mexico
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Um, that high. I think the highest car payment I've ever had was in the low 200's.
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Burke, VA
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tip for st.cronin - don't ever buy a car from Sir-Mix-A-Lot
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Appleton, WI
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Price out a new mid-range anything and you'll get pretty close to $500. I checked out a 60-month financing at 7% for a mid-range Honda Accord and it came out closer to $600/month. Even a mid-level Civic is over $400.
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#12 |
Coordinator
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Dayton, OH
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Stupid #5. I think I got nearly all the most popular except that one. I totally blanked.
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#13 |
Head Coach
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Hometown of Canada
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Sent.
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#14 |
Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: NYC
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Taz FTW.
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College Benchwarmer
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: St. Catharines, Canada
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I choked on the salary question...damn!
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Pro Rookie
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Los Angeles
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i came up with george washington for money. not even close, im guessing. still happy with 12th
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Dayton, OH
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I gave people here way too much credit on income methinks...
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Edinburg,TX
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I am pretty sure that was me. My own opinion came out on this one I guess. Being on the road for most of our marriage the wife has taken care of the bills, taxes, and all around anything to do with our money. It helped earn me a bottom 10 finish though. Woohoo!
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Pro Rookie
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Honolulu, HI
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w00t!
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Coordinator
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Dayton, OH
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Me too. At least we're both stupid.
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#21 |
Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: New Jersey
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Me three. I came very close to going with 50k for question 1, but for some reason went with 40k. |
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College Benchwarmer
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: A sports era long ago when everything didnt require a Nike logo
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I had George Washington also.
Always thought that the results should be posted in FULL, especially after taking over 2 weeks to compile. Hell, Ive forgotten half my answers by then.
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Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Colorado Springs
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The Credit Card debt killed me.
And I went so close to 1,000,000 on the savings, but switched to 500,000 at the last minute. |
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#24 |
Pro Starter
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Alabama
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Bah, I think I had all the top answers except the car payment, which I put "none"
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#25 |
Coordinator
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: The Great Northwest
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See this is one where I went with what I thought the answers would be more then what I would answer them myself.
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#26 |
Coordinator
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: The Black Hole
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How is $300 the average car payment? WTF can you get for that?
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Favored Bitch #1
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: homeless in NJ
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Coordinator
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: The Great Northwest
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Head Coach
Join Date: Jul 2001
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Coordinator
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Conyers GA
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Feel free to do it that way when you host one. And it wasn't over 2 weeks, since I posted the questions on 2-27. By the way, you may be able to find your answers in your Sent Items folder since you PMed them to me. But if that's too difficult, here they are for you: Quote:
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College Benchwarmer
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: A sports era long ago when everything didnt require a Nike logo
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You're right KWHIT
13 days < 2 weeks I took your advice and found my 'sent folder', didnt know you could do that, or even how to really. It seems that I have sent a PM here before, sometime back in 2005, over 3 years ago. Keep on truckin' man.
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#32 |
Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: the yo'
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I did okay, hitting the most popular on a couple.
Missed badly on the car payment(350) income(75k), and went with Buffet instead of gates. |
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Coordinator
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Conyers GA
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Glad to be of service. ![]() (Sorry if I was snarky before; it was a REALLY shitty day at work today). |
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Coordinator
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: The Black Hole
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Ah. Okay. The last car we got (last year) we put $20K down, got $4K on our trade-in and our monthly payment is ~$400 per month for 3 years. That's why I thought $300 was low. Anyhow, I thought there were over 50 entrants? |
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Coordinator
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Conyers GA
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I lied. Well.... I was excel challenged at the time. I had a few mai-tais, saw that the excel row was over 50 and made a premature post. In all actuality, the list of contestants starts at row 11 of the spreadsheet so I was off a bit. |
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Head Coach
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Hometown of Canada
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You people make a lot of money.
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Edinburg,TX
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I am basically unemployed if that makes you feel any better. ![]()
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Coordinator
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
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3rd worst!? I googled the first four questions for answers. Take a guess whether I'll do that again. Yeah, indeed: unlikely.
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Appleton, WI
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: the yo'
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Bump
C'mon, we can make IWS work. There were 46 entries last time, there's obviously some demand to keep the game going. Where's the next one? |
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#41 |
Coordinator
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Conyers GA
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Yep.
Taz, if it wasn't clear to you, you're supposed to run the next game. If you can't or don't want to, just let us know and someone else will run it. |
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#42 |
Unregistered
Join Date: May 2004
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I'm terrible at it, but I'll participate again.
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Willow Glen, CA
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Most people also extend the length of their loan. Speaking as a former car salesman (yeech), almost everyone jumps right to 5 or 6 years, and we even had one person request a 7-year loan (at a ridiculous interest rate, too). Many, many people are very, very uninformed when it comes to the financial implications of spending that much money that they do not have. It was the fact that it was my job to prey upon those people and get them to buy the car even if it was a terrible life decision that turned me off to the car business almost immediately (worked there for 3 months).
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Coordinator
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: The Black Hole
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Y'know, before we bought our car I read Confessions of a Car Salesman at edmonds.com. Great read. I can understand your pain. |
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#45 |
Pro Rookie
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Fresno, CA
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19th, not terrible for a 1st time out.
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#46 |
Coordinator
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Big Ten Country
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Missed this the first time around. My 3rd place is the best I've ever done.
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#47 |
Pro Rookie
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Honolulu, HI
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I'll try to get something up in the next few days.
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