Saw a not-too-surprising article on finances yesterday.
That article was written by Megan McArdle, and gave some
good advice about the cost/benefit questions involved in homeownership.
However, one of the commenters managed to produce a
very funny parody of the typical "bad example" of homeowners turning their house into a money-sink.
After slaying our ancestral enemies and throwing their corpses from
the battlements of my clan's ancient fortress - and then surviving the
deadly politics of just who would rule from its heights me and my wife
were finally home owners.
We could handle all the life and death
struggle of owning property. Siege preparedness, check. Keeping secret
passageways to ourselves, check. Challenges from people destined by
the prophesies of obscure gods to rule in our stead, check. Personal
finance? No.
I got a HELOC to do some repairs and the wife was riding
me to have the crenelation spruced up. Our big mistake? We dipped into
it again to pay some dowries and hire some mercenaries to deal with this
whole Ogre infestation thing.
Never borrow from gnomes against the
seat of your power for things that you don't use to increase the value
of the demesne. Now it seems like every third fowl we squeeze from our
serfs go to those guys. Sometimes I just don't think it is worth it.
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I found the comparison between a debt-riddled noble of a past time and the debt-encumbered homeowners in modern America to be funny, and pointed.
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