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Why am I restless lately?

November 5th, 2011 at 12:43 am

I notice I have been thinking about all sorts of bold risky moves lately (not to mention bought 2 apple stock options to the tune of $6,800 that are looking quite risky right now. (too bad I did not agree when my husband wanted to buy Google at stock option when it was at $500 a share, now with 600 a share we would have made close to 10K in few weeks Frown(( ) , we may loose or make little on the Apple one.

Anyhow, I keep thinking that we have to do something more bold, that we won't make much progress otherwise, the way things are. I obviously don't have the money to try all these things, not sure if I can even do one, but there is something in me that is making me obsess about it right now.

Taking 30 years to pay off 1.5 bedroom apartment just seems like not enough progress. I really want to do something more. I don't know what.

4 Responses to “Why am I restless lately?”

  1. PatientSaver Says:
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    Well, totally off the cuff, but maybe moving out of the city would do it. NYC real estate is so incredibly expensive, I can't see how anyone but the very wealthy could get ahead there.

  2. Nika Says:
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    Patient Saver, we have decent jobs here, family that loves baby and come over to watch him at least 1-2 days a week. And I have a love-hate relationship with this city. Moving is not something I want to do right now.

  3. baselle Says:
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    Unfortunately, there aren't any high return safe bets out there. I'd use this restlessness to research investments, and I'd even go crazy and research investments such as commodities, gold, corporate and municipal bonds, REITs.

    This is one of the reasons that downturns are so nerve-racking. Investments seem to go nowhere because the economy is going nowhere. A wise investor once said, "you make the most amount of money during a recession, you just don't know it at the time."

  4. Whitestripe Says:
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    Research sounds like a good idea in these times. On another note, I'm not exactly sure how mortgages work over there, but here the more you pay off initially cuts your years off the mortgage dramatically. We have paid onl y little extra amounts when we can, and have taken two years off the mortgage on top of the actual two and a half years we've had it.

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