Chooooooo$$$$$$$$ Choooooooooo$$$$$$$$$$!!1

[Roscoe]

Have you tried playing golf with Don for money, I hear that's a quick way to make a buck!

That would be a losing bet, unfortunately.....

[Silverback]

Have you tried playing golf with Don for money, I hear that's a quick way to make a buck!

[Baba Ganoush]

I'd buy a $3,000 fox body, those things are only going up!!!1!!

[quikag]

$5k for 2012, I believe. Any other investment is going to most likely have a disproportiate amount of risk relative to potential return. You can always invest in a high-yield bond fund or some crazy international etf, etc. if you want to maximize your risk and potential reward in that sector. You could buy ~2 ounces of gold too.

...Or take the $3k and buy a little trailer, lawn mower, edger, weed eater, and blower, and start hanging fliers, i.e. start a business. I guess it all depends on whether you want to actively participate in your investment or just put it something and hope it works out.

[Roscoe]

Dude, if you have the $3k to invest and have emergency cash liquidity already and no high interest debt, open a Roth IRA. Log onto Fidelity, Vanguard, or T. Rowe Price and get it set-up. Doesn't take long. Then put that $3k into a Total Stock Market Index Fund or S&P 500 Index Fund and forget about it for 30 years. Or even better, max out the Roth IRA contribution every year and dollar cost average that annual max/12 every month through auto debit which you can also set-up with all of those companies (Vanguard, T. Rowe, Fidelity).

The above is solid advice. Take it or leave it.

No, that's solid advice, I appreciate... Was looking for something above and beyond those types of investments, and to see if there was anything other than stocks that might provide a decent rate of return.

I have an IRA with Putnam, Fidelity, and 401k's with Fidelity (x2), and T. Rowe.

Was curious if others have experimented with any bonds or notes, or the like...

I appreciate someone with a voice of reason, finally. Also wanting to keep it liquid and the gold rush is already in the past.... although some are speculating it may hit $3k/oz, which I don't see that happening...

What is the annual max to contribute to a Roth?

[racrguy]

So much for investment advice.... I thought this was a welcoming, friendly place. Boy have I been wrong for ... 11 years....

Go ahead and poke fun for me being a "broke ass"....

Right there with ya. There's only one member here I'd even remotely take advice from, MAYBE 2.

[quikag]

Dude, if you have the $3k to invest and have emergency cash liquidity already and no high interest debt, open a Roth IRA. Log onto Fidelity, Vanguard, or T. Rowe Price and get it set-up. Doesn't take long. Then put that $3k into a Total Stock Market Index Fund or S&P 500 Index Fund and forget about it for 30 years. Or even better, max out the Roth IRA contribution every year and dollar cost average that annual max/12 every month through auto debit which you can also set-up with all of those companies (Vanguard, T. Rowe, Fidelity).

The above is solid advice. Take it or leave it.

[Roscoe]

So much for investment advice.... I thought this was a welcoming, friendly place. Boy have I been wrong for ... 11 years....

Go ahead and poke fun for me being a "broke ass"....

[quikag]

Yeah, but one day doesn't reflect a year... I was asking more for a W2....

I could post up a pay stub for "one day's hard work" with a commission check and that wouldn't be appropriate, now would it?

I think he wanted to imply on a 7/3 work schedule, he basically pulls down a quarter million a year. hahahahahaha....

Didn't even crack a grand? How do you afford to pay your Butler on that pittance, Govenor?

[Roscoe]

Here is one day's hard work.

Yeah, but one day doesn't reflect a year... I was asking more for a W2....

I could post up a pay stub for "one day's hard work" with a commission check and that wouldn't be appropriate, now would it?

[FreightTrain]

What cracks me up is when broke asses try to give advice about money and want to talk shit. I'll put my money where my mouth is. I only speak the truth. To bad alot of other folks don't do that on this site.

[quikag]

Here is one day's hard work.

haha. Cracks me up when people post up their pay. They're either FOS or incredibly prideful. I guess you're the latter since you allegedly posted up one of your pay slips. Must be a trip-rate payment.

[FreightTrain]

I have to ask one thing, Mr. Almighty Railroad Big Money guy.... How much exactly do you W2 that allows you to cast stones at people that (you perceive) to not be nearly as fortunate as you? I know you (probably, based upon your previous posts) work "incredibly hard", but at the end of the year, what does that get you?

Just asking because you have a record of touting how much you make...

Here is one day's hard work.

enough to buy a $50k half ton pickup with squeaky seats.

god bless

All that money done turned him into a full blown diva.