Middle Class - Trapperman Forums

No Profanity *** No Flaming *** No Advertising *** No Anti Trappers ***NO POLITICS
No Non-Target Catches *** No Links to Anti-trapping Sites *** No Avoiding Profanity Filter

Home~Trap Talk~ADC Forum~Trap Shed~Wilderness Trapping~International Trappers~Fur Handling

Auction Forum~Trapper Tips~Links~Gallery~Basic Sets~Convention Calendar~Chat~ Trap Collecting Forum

Trapper's Humor~Strictly Trapping~Fur Buyers Directory~Mugshots~Fur Sale Directory~Wildcrafting~The Pen and Quill

Trapper's Tales~Words From The Past~Legends~Archives~Kids Forum~Lure Formulators Forum~ Fermenter's Forum

~~~ Dobbins' Products Catalog ~~~

Minnesota Trapline Products

Please support our sponsor for the Trappers Talk Page - Minnesota Trapline Products

Register Log In Home Forums Trapper Talk Middle Class

Print Thread

Hop To

Page 3 of 3

1

2

3

Re: Middle Class [Re: gcs] #8267727 11/21/24 07:33 PM 11/21/24 07:33 PM
Joined: Mar 2020 W NY Turtledale trapper
Turtledale trapper Joined: Mar 2020 W NY	Originally Posted by gcs Sounds about right for here....though you'd be struggling at the 52 level... I'm lower than that and I'm fine. It's all how you live NYSTA, NTA, FTA, life member Erie county trappers assn.,life member Catt.county trappers

Re: Middle Class [Re: WI Outdoors] #8267737 11/21/24 07:49 PM 11/21/24 07:49 PM
Joined: Feb 2020 Indiana P Providence Farm trapper
Providence Farm trapper P Joined: Feb 2020 Indiana	Originally Posted by WI Outdoors Originally Posted by 3togo This gives more importance to teaching kids starting to work to invest as much of their income as possible, as soon as they have enough to open an account. Decades if growth are the best possibility to retire before 80 years old. I'd rather have lots of real-estate to be honest. Takes a chunk of money to buy. real-estate. While your saving up better invest it in something with a return so it's working for you.

Re: Middle Class [Re: Turtledale] #8267745 11/21/24 08:01 PM 11/21/24 08:01 PM
Joined: Feb 2020 Indiana P Providence Farm trapper
Providence Farm trapper P Joined: Feb 2020 Indiana	Originally Posted by Turtledale Originally Posted by gcs Sounds about right for here....though you'd be struggling at the 52 level... I'm lower than that and I'm fine. It's all how you live I told my wife a year or so back that when I was an Ironworker Apprentice at 13.65 we always got by even with layoffs I off set with tree work and even had one year on the books I only made 19 k and never made more than 65k after topping out. And back then I had a life hunted, fished, did things with friends. Today well I'm making more per year than I ever though possible. Already 2x over my best year Iron working. Yes, I have a paid off farm and rental property, nice savings and investing as much as I can for retirement. BUT I don't have much of a life always at work, only hunt and fish with the kids and only have a few friends I never do anything with. I THINK I WAS HAPPIER when I was broke and struggling. She pointed out we didn't have kids back then the kids are expensive and also things cost a lot more now and she is right. I also was not thinking about retirement at all and is why I'm trying to make up for that blunder saving more now. Last edited by Providence Farm; 11/21/24 10:42 PM.

Re: Middle Class [Re: HobbieTrapper] #8267963 11/21/24 10:38 PM 11/21/24 10:38 PM
Joined: Dec 2010 Armpit, ak D Dirt trapper
Dirt trapper D Joined: Dec 2010 Armpit, ak	I think i may have been a member of the officially recognized middle class 3 or 4 years total in my entire adult life. If most of my adult life was spent in poverty. I woujdn't have known it if the government wouldn't have classified it as poverty. Who is John Galt?

Re: Middle Class [Re: HobbieTrapper] #8269136 11/23/24 07:26 AM 11/23/24 07:26 AM
Joined: Dec 2013 Flint Hills, KS J jht trapper
jht trapper J Joined: Dec 2013 Flint Hills, KS	Saw this in the news headlines and thought it was relevant to this conversation. https://www.axios.com/2024/11/22/boomers-gen-z-millennials-financial-success I must be out of touch with reality. All of those numbers look high to me, but the Gen Z amount looks insane. I figured if a guy could stay (mostly) debt free and off of government assistance, that’d be pretty successful.

Re: Middle Class [Re: jht] #8269215 11/23/24 10:42 AM 11/23/24 10:42 AM
Joined: Dec 2008 Eastern Shore of Maryland HobbieTrapper OP "Chippendale Trapper"
HobbieTrapper OP "Chippendale Trapper" Joined: Dec 2008 Eastern Shore of Maryland	Originally Posted by jht Saw this in the news headlines and thought it was relevant to this conversation. https://www.axios.com/2024/11/22/boomers-gen-z-millennials-financial-success I must be out of touch with reality. All of those numbers look high to me, but the Gen Z amount looks insane. I figured if a guy could stay (mostly) debt free and off of government assistance, that’d be pretty successful. That does seem extreme. I suppose it is possible though. One of my kids is making 75k/yr at 33. I was way past that before I was making that kind of money. The youngest is about to graduate college with a degree in Computer Science & Software Engineering, he’ll probably do okay. -Goofy

Page 3 of 3

1

2

3

Moderated by 330-Trapper, Bogmaster, Cindy, cotton, Drifter, Maddog47, Paul Dobbins, USMC47 🦫, Wolfdog91

Powered by UBB.threads™ PHP Forum Software 7.7.1