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Amazing acts of Badassity by your SO?
« on: March 05, 2015, 12:53:37 AM »
My awesome wife surprised me with an act of Badassity today. I got home today to find she'd filled two huge bags of horse by-product whilst walking the dog. A triple win - dog walked, local walk cleaned and free growth promoter for the new veggie patch!

It got me thinking - what awesome acts of Badassity has your SO surprised you with recently?

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« Reply #1 on: March 05, 2015, 06:42:49 AM »
Made a small bathtub size vat of delicious turkey chili in the slowcooker yesterday: gourmet chili plus several more meals in the freezer for lazy nights.
After walking to the store for ingredients while I was biking home from work.
Never "goes shopping" because malls give her hives and migraines. As they do me.
Enjoys keeping our 200k ("kilometres" we call them) vehicle on the road with careful maintenance and chuckles at her friends' "car pride."
Grows stunning food and plants all summer for enjoyment and food.
And so on . . ..

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« Reply #2 on: March 05, 2015, 06:57:55 AM »
Gave up cable!!
Is now ready to give up Xbox!!!

My husband is fairly frugal in aras he doesn't care about much but prefers to spend a lot in areas he cares about (entertainment, rent). I'm making small wins in the entertainment area.

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« Reply #3 on: March 05, 2015, 07:09:14 AM »
My wife has walked to work (about 3 miles) in some pretty nasty weather this winter, as low as about 0 degrees, and much colder with wind chill. She still takes the car pretty often, but the walking is awesome, especially considering I only have a 2 mile bike ride and don't always do that in the winter.

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« Reply #4 on: March 05, 2015, 07:33:56 AM »
My wife is decidedly NOT an MMM Badass -- however, this past year, she began socking away the max 401k contribution ($18k) and put her entire bonus (not a ton, but still) into our joint savings account.  These were huge steps for her.  She still spends way too much money on frivolous shit (viz., Lululemon clothing and shoes/boots), but in addition to the big changes above, she's also gotten very good about packing a lunch for work, making coffee at home (instead of buying at SBUX every day), and a couple years ago she agreed to cut the cord on things like our landline phone and security system, and other money-saving things at home.  All in all, I'm quite pleased with her progress.

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« Reply #5 on: March 05, 2015, 08:17:55 AM »
He has decided that his current phone is still good enough, and he will NOT be getting some shiny new brushed titanium thing (!!!). This is a big step for a tech early adopter.
He just got done working 6 12-14hour shifts in a row, with a one hour commute each time. That contract should be done now, and he's dropping another $2k into his IRA from last year.
Mostly, he is supportive of any hair-brained frugal schemes I have, like box wine or running the numbers on soooo many areas to live.

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« Reply #6 on: March 05, 2015, 08:39:01 AM »
Loving this thread :)

Hubs has come a long way since we started dating. His first tax return after having a "real" job we negotiated he can buy a big TV to play games on (we have never had cable) if we sock the rest of the money into RRSP's. Now, he is on fire with the idea of FI and every spare penny gets socked away, it isn't even a discussion.

He frequently talks himself out of small purchases (he is a self admitted collector) and he uses more MMM terminology then I do.  "What would MMM do?" "I don't want to be a complainty-pants" "and "Does MMM or your forum peeps have any suggestions on this?" are regular parts of his vocabulary. He has even started referring to his car driving habits as not wanting to be a "Clown-car driver" so has become very good at making sure that whenever he leaves the house for work if there is anything that needs to be done, he does it on the way home.

We both have different issues when it comes to saving/spending so we are really good at calling each other on our bullshit excuses - which is a major switch for us. We tend to want to do things/say yes to the other person because making them happy makes ourselves happy. We have both gotten better at saying "no, dumb idea" to each other - and more often then not, he is the one keeping me in line now ;)

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Re: Amazing acts of Badassity by your SO?
« Reply #7 on: March 05, 2015, 08:43:59 AM »
My awesome wife surprised me with an act of Badassity today. I got home today to find she'd filled two huge bags of horse by-product whilst walking the dog. A triple win - dog walked, local walk cleaned and free growth promoter for the new veggie patch!

It got me thinking - what awesome acts of Badassity has your SO surprised you with recently?

I would suggest that you be careful using raw horse manure on your vegetable gardening.

http://www.examiner.com/article/read-this-before-you-dump-that-horse-manure-your-vegetable-garden

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« Reply #8 on: March 05, 2015, 08:47:10 AM »
The Hub has developed a passion for ancient video games that he gets at the 25 cent sale at the Half Price Books Outlet.  As a result of all the experience  this has given him at computer fiddling, he is now the go-to guy for computer stuff at work, making him even more valuable.

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« Reply #9 on: March 05, 2015, 08:55:00 AM »
I wish I had something to contribute to this thread -_-

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« Reply #10 on: March 05, 2015, 09:01:41 AM »
I wouldn't call my wife an MMM-style badass, but she is definitely frugal by nature. I think the time I was most impressed with her was when she broke her foot and got a $600 bill from the orthopedic clinic (who did nothing other than take X-rays and tell her not to walk on it for two weeks). She negotiated the bill down to $200. I'd never had the nerve to negotiate on medical bills.

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« Reply #11 on: March 05, 2015, 02:37:02 PM »
We turned a living room into a dining room and had the problem of no overhead light.  We usually do all home improvement projects ourselves (for example we just split one large bedroom into two smaller bedrooms completely by ourselves) but there didn't appear to be an easy way to route the wiring that wouldn't require us to put holes in our drywall and ceiling and we didn't want to run a chain or wire outside the wall so we got a quote from an electrician who, we figured, would have the proper tools to be able to fish the wires.  For $100-$200 we figured it'd be worth it (my internet searching told me it'd be about this).  The quote from an Electrician was $550 and was going to include a wireless remote switch, not even running wires.  Holy cow, what!?  My husband decided we could at the very least install a remote switch, lol, so he gave it a go and was able to actually direct wire a light because there were luckily wires already routed through the ceiling in the place where he drilled the hole to put the light box.  Cost was like $5, and then another $80 for the light. 

I also convinced him to let me cancel cable last month.

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« Reply #12 on: March 05, 2015, 02:41:36 PM »
She earns half of our income.

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« Reply #13 on: March 05, 2015, 03:06:07 PM »
He put the roof over our heads (literally, said she who watched him carry trusses up a ladder).

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« Reply #14 on: March 05, 2015, 03:22:07 PM »
Living with me!

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« Reply #15 on: March 05, 2015, 03:52:48 PM »
Walks to the grocery store and the library with 2 babies because "I know I have the car, but I'd prefer not to use it".

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« Reply #16 on: March 06, 2015, 12:07:05 AM »
Mastering his annoying weekly commute (long, no diect connection, with a suitcase or large backpack) by public transportation only. Our decision to go carfree was based on different circumstances (daily commute with a direct connection and briefcase only).

He has not even talked about getting a new car.
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« Reply #17 on: March 06, 2015, 01:50:53 AM »
My examples are more badass in number than scale I suppose. Where do I start? He fixed my broken sunglasses hinge 5 times, fixed my toilet, fixed my car, fixed my windows, sharpened my knife, staked my tomatoes with reeds, researched my excellently bargainous mobile phone, encouraged my budgeting to achieve my goal to pay off extra from my mortgage, fixed my aerial. That's a start. It's all been initiated by him. We've only known each other a year so he's been busy.
Yes, he's an engineer. He's never read MMM, just a natural.

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« Reply #18 on: March 06, 2015, 01:18:24 PM »
My wife cleaned out all of the closets and cabinets in the house - then returned all of the unopened items that we won't realistically use.
Quite a struggle with certain stores, but $200+ later.. I'm impressed!

Oh.. .and when I asked to pocket $20 just to keep on-hand... .I got denied  (bonus points for her badassity)

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« Reply #19 on: March 06, 2015, 01:32:59 PM »
I'm totally fine with spending on LULU.  They lift and separate, you know?

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« Reply #20 on: March 06, 2015, 02:01:08 PM »
He put the roof over our heads (literally, said she who watched him carry trusses up a ladder).
That's amazing.

I wish I had something to contribute to this thread -_-
Me too

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« Reply #21 on: March 06, 2015, 03:10:39 PM »
My spouse came to me a couple weeks ago and said, "can you help me with my business plan?" Then earlier this week he made a balance sheet. This is someone who 3 months ago couldn't figure out how much he earned in a year. <swoon>

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« Reply #22 on: March 07, 2015, 08:16:28 PM »
Thanks so much for posting this topic!  Very inspiring.

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« Reply #23 on: March 07, 2015, 08:55:32 PM »
He made a spreadsheet from scratch to track our savings rate/percentage and monthly spendings. Then he said he will pay for all the groceries in exchange for me to do dishes indefinitely, so that I can be encouraged to increase my savings rate minus an actual raise (since it was quite defeating) and cook in more.

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« Reply #24 on: March 08, 2015, 08:15:53 AM »
My wife cleaned out all of the closets and cabinets in the house - then returned all of the unopened items that we won't realistically use.
Quite a struggle with certain stores, but $200+ later.. I'm impressed!

My wife does this too, she was far more patient and persistent than I could ever be. We had a lot of stuff we got at our wedding we didn't need and she spent a lot of time researching what goes to what store and managed to return nearly all of it (if anyone wants to buy a fancy-pants-out-of-production picture frame let us know! haha).

She also has taken a huge interest in learning about.... everything financial since realizing I'm really interested in pursuing FIRE at an early age as well as optimizing everything about my financial life.

We were doing 2015 planning and she was asking me why we can't more front-load our IRAs and my 401k with some of our cash reserves. This was a very pleasant surprise :)

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« Reply #25 on: March 08, 2015, 02:26:01 PM »
Love reading these amazing acts!

My husband:
-Last week decided to repair his iPhone 4 rather than buying a brand new 6 when the charging port stopped working
-Applied for 2 credit cards (one 0%, one travel) when I asked him to without questioning it
-Started doing programming work on the side with a buddy after 3 years as a stay-at-home dad
-Puts up with my talk about MMM this, MMM that and is excited about the prospect of ER for me!

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« Reply #26 on: March 08, 2015, 03:10:30 PM »
Reminding me daily that frugal = awesome.

Working and investing hard to maintain out 60-70% savings rate.

Earning half our income and having contributed to half our networth.

Being on board with FIRE.

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« Reply #27 on: March 08, 2015, 04:04:50 PM »
The Hub just repaired my coat tree with glue and twine.  I am so glad as I will never find another $5.00 coat tree. 

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« Reply #28 on: March 08, 2015, 05:02:28 PM »
Tallied it up today and realized Mr PoP has put over 9,000 nails (with a heavy nailgun) into our trusses as part of their modification to vault our ceiling and give me the kitchen of my dreams.  Whadda guy! 

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« Reply #29 on: March 08, 2015, 08:50:37 PM »
He rotated my tires today and now he is vacuuming the living room.. He also earns half of the money and takes care of the kids on the weekends that I have to work.  And he works out and keeps in shape.  My friends are very jealous of me :)

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« Reply #30 on: March 08, 2015, 11:13:21 PM »
SO has a history of badassity.

Before we started going out, I gave him a $60 athletic class-pass I'd purchased but couldn't use because of a conflict with a school class. I honestly didn't expect the money back. But he saved up every single damn dollar he made outside of his expenses, and gave me a stack of $1 and $5 bills a few months later.

He works multiple jobs at a time. While being a full time student and spending hours on club activities, he'll regularly work a part time job (20 hours per week) while tutoring (5-10 hours), and working on programming that may not make money now, but really increases his skills and may lead to passive income in the future.  He's graduating two quarters early, too. I really don't know how he does it.

We've DIY'd beef jerky and other things before going on a week-long camping trip.  He turned me on to biking before I even found MMM. He also has experience with building things, and so we've planned our tiny-house (which he modeled on Google Sketchup) and we will be able to build it ourselves because of him.

ETA: Almost forgot - he sews too!
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« Reply #31 on: March 09, 2015, 10:52:31 AM »
^^^^ that's amazing! Is he on mmm forum?

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« Reply #32 on: March 09, 2015, 11:19:41 AM »
I've shared this before, but it still tickles me to no end.


Old iPhone - like a 4 or something, falls into pond.  Have never seen my hubby move so fast - went from a standing position to flat on the ground with hand in the pond in about half a second.  Found the phone and dried it out, still using it and that was months ago. 

He's in IT and people make comments about how old his phone is.  God love that man!  I know other people who would be like...oh darn, time to get a new phone!!

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« Reply #33 on: March 09, 2015, 08:20:43 PM »
I've shared this before, but it still tickles me to no end.


Old iPhone - like a 4 or something, falls into pond.  Have never seen my hubby move so fast - went from a standing position to flat on the ground with hand in the pond in about half a second.  Found the phone and dried it out, still using it and that was months ago. 

He's in IT and people make comments about how old his phone is.  God love that man!  I know other people who would be like...oh darn, time to get a new phone!!

I did the same thing with my wife's 20 dollar Tracphone.  She accidentally spilled water on it and it started to flick.  So I took it apart, dried it and reassemble it.  It took me 3 hours. She used it for 3 years until this year she switched to RW.  Now looking back, I am not sure if it was worth my time.


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« Reply #34 on: March 09, 2015, 08:36:08 PM »
My wife bought shoes on sale 3 months ago and kept the receipts.  Macy's had the same shoes on sale last week and she got them to make up the difference.  Free $23.

My wife got us a mortgage loan quote that is 1.75% lower than mine with less closing costs through her bank.  Now we are looking forward to making a real estate investment.


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Re: Amazing acts of Badassity by your SO?
« Reply #35 on: March 09, 2015, 08:53:50 PM »
My wife bought shoes on sale 3 months ago and kept the receipts.  Macy's had the same shoes on sale last week and she got them to make up the difference.  Free $23.

My wife got us a mortgage loan quote that is 1.75% lower than mine with less closing costs through her bank.  Now we are looking forward to making a real estate investment.

Love you, too, but the shoes are going to make me laugh. I literally had to walk past ALL the Macy's shoes today bc I was curious about their current sale. I think the sales people saw me, too! LOL

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« Reply #36 on: March 09, 2015, 08:58:02 PM »
Let himself get talked into biking after 20 bikeless years.

Now bikes absolutely everywhere from April-November, and even does more than a few trips by bike in winter while the car relaxes in the garage :)

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« Reply #37 on: March 10, 2015, 04:43:24 AM »
I've shared this before, but it still tickles me to no end.


Old iPhone - like a 4 or something, falls into pond.  Have never seen my hubby move so fast - went from a standing position to flat on the ground with hand in the pond in about half a second.  Found the phone and dried it out, still using it and that was months ago. 

He's in IT and people make comments about how old his phone is.  God love that man!  I know other people who would be like...oh darn, time to get a new phone!!

I did the same thing with my wife's 20 dollar Tracphone.  She accidentally spilled water on it and it started to flick.  So I took it apart, dried it and reassemble it.  It took me 3 hours. She used it for 3 years until this year she switched to RW.  Now looking back, I am not sure if it was worth my time.

A track phone is funnier!  LOL.  At least the iphone had cost us $100 and an expensive AT&T plan for two years!

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« Reply #38 on: March 10, 2015, 08:16:43 AM »
My husband has been selling things on EBay this week... Sold his xbox and a pair of sunglasses (?), and has listed his paintball gun. I almost feel bad, except I never told him to do it :).

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« Reply #39 on: March 10, 2015, 08:43:48 AM »
A year ago my SO was not contributing to his 401(k) at work. I had convinced him to start small (3%) and increase it incrementally every year or so. He decided this year to raise it to 10%. :D

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« Reply #40 on: March 10, 2015, 09:54:57 AM »
Mr. Mandalay, among other things:

Scoops the cat boxes
Happily eats the same thing every night so I can cook in bulk on the weekends
Has dialed down our spending (we go out to eat once a month instead of once a week)
Is on board with me pulling the retirement trigger with him in 2020
Ramped up our savings and investments

And, most importantly, puts up with me.

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« Reply #41 on: March 10, 2015, 04:15:19 PM »
SO bike commutes close to 5,000 miles per year and is still limping her 1996 Volvo with well north of 250,000 miles along (when it actually leaves the driveway). She's just generally awesome.

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« Reply #42 on: March 10, 2015, 04:41:40 PM »
Has done all maintenance on my very old (and free) car since we met.

Puts up with my MMM obsession.

Has been less than enthusiastic about the possibility of retiring early, but is open minded as I learn more and am able to share that knowledge. It sounds scary to him to save a large percentage of our income. But he's frugal by nature.  . .
And today he sent me a text that he saved 51% of his February income, without counting a large cash inflow from selling a set of axles!

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« Reply #43 on: March 10, 2015, 08:15:14 PM »
Mr. Mandalay, among other things:

Scoops the cat boxes
Happily eats the same thing every night so I can cook in bulk on the weekends
Has dialed down our spending (we go out to eat once a month instead of once a week)
Is on board with me pulling the retirement trigger with him in 2020
Ramped up our savings and investments

And, most importantly, puts up with me.

I literally could have written this word-for-word. Except the cat box. I do that; he does the dishes, a task I DESPISE. :)

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« Reply #44 on: March 10, 2015, 10:45:04 PM »
^^^^ that's amazing! Is he on mmm forum?

If that was directed at me - he's not. He's not as interested in the financial aspects of things, and at first he didn't really understand MMM's concepts. But one time he started thinking about "actual annual costs" for various things he needs, and we ended up at a low number, so he started seeing the light.  These days he just asks me what my "mustache friends" are talking about online and I'll tell him interesting things I've learned about mortgages and whatnot. :)

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« Reply #45 on: March 11, 2015, 09:01:22 AM »
^^^^ that's amazing! Is he on mmm forum?

If that was directed at me - he's not. He's not as interested in the financial aspects of things, and at first he didn't really understand MMM's concepts. But one time he started thinking about "actual annual costs" for various things he needs, and we ended up at a low number, so he started seeing the light.  These days he just asks me what my "mustache friends" are talking about online and I'll tell him interesting things I've learned about mortgages and whatnot. :)

That is my SO as well. He'll ask me "What are the mustachians up to today?"

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« Reply #46 on: March 11, 2015, 07:48:51 PM »
My SO lives in Seattle, where there is a paid sick leave law. But the temp agency she worked for said it didn't apply to temp workers, and refused to pay her for her one sick day. She did her own research and found out they were wrong. They still said otherwise. So she filed a complaint with the city enforcement office. The agency offered to settle with her only, but she refused unless they changed their policy. Eventually, she signed a settlement. She got paid less money than their initial offer to her, but they changed their policy - and paid the back wages they owed everyone who'd had a sick day over the last year. I admire her so much; she's truly badass.

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« Reply #47 on: March 14, 2015, 09:22:49 PM »
My husband hasn't gotten his hair cut for 4 months. He has never gone longer than 6-7 weeks in the 12 years I've known him (he says longest he has gone in 20 years.) I'm impressed.

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Re: Amazing acts of Badassity by your SO?
« Reply #48 on: March 16, 2015, 08:54:06 AM »
My SO lives in Seattle, where there is a paid sick leave law. But the temp agency she worked for said it didn't apply to temp workers, and refused to pay her for her one sick day. She did her own research and found out they were wrong. They still said otherwise. So she filed a complaint with the city enforcement office. The agency offered to settle with her only, but she refused unless they changed their policy. Eventually, she signed a settlement. She got paid less money than their initial offer to her, but they changed their policy - and paid the back wages they owed everyone who'd had a sick day over the last year. I admire her so much; she's truly badass.

Yes, she is.

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Re: Amazing acts of Badassity by your SO?
« Reply #49 on: March 16, 2015, 02:32:07 PM »
GF bought ~$35K of Vanguard ETFs. Ignoring the advice of a Financial Planner to buy higher MER investments that weren't as well tax optimized for her account.

Not blindly trusting professional financial advice and doing her own due diligence research is awesome.

:)

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