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[Roy Randolph]

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[BreakingFree]

Oh, cool, I have been *thinking* about joining this. Probably after BS2, though. Bump this baby back up after I post my "debt free" thread. :laugh3:

[Shannon]

Isn't this a contradiction to Dave's program, since we are forever telling people to drop the netflix subscription?

[Sandy M]

Isn't this a contradiction to Dave's program, since we are forever telling people to drop the netflix subscription?

That would depend on a lot of variables including your shovel and where on the steps you are.

Yes, if you're having a hard time paying minimums much less getting a snow ball going - netflix would be one of the things I"d suggest you drop from your budget. If yo'ure posting me and asking what you can do to be more gazelle - I'd suggest droppnig netflix.

If you've got $40 in your budget each week to take the family to a movie - I'd suggest renting movies or going to the library.

For me, netflix is something I've thought about doing for the convenience factor. But I chose to put what I thought was a reasonable entertainment portion of my budget towards seasonal theater tickets. At this point - I don't feel that I can do both.

[BusyBee]

We've had Netflix for a couple of years now and just love it. It has saved us many, many times over the subscription cost. :wtg3:

[GeorgiaJillybean]

Love Netflix. If you can't make your budget work or have limited to no snowball, of course you should drop it. If however it is your sole source of "entertainment" (ie. you don't go to movies - more than one movie out a month would be more than the price of the netflix subscription), it is great.

We love it too for all the tv shows they carry. We don't really watch TV much at all anymore, except for college football and basketball, so if we hear something is really good, we'll just wait until the next season and catch it on Netflix.

[Roy Randolph]

Isn't this a contradiction to Dave's program, since we are forever telling people to drop the netflix subscription?

Anyone that has taken FPU (which is the FULL version of Dave's plan) there is a FULL session on buying big big bargains. And being a wise consumer. Net flicks $4.99 a month plan could be a good alternative to someone that might be spending $23.99 a month at Netflix or at the movie rental store or theater. Its a alternative to the normal spend spend behavioral one might have.

[Barb1954]

There seems to have been a flurry of "Sponsor" threads in the last day. Valueline encourages buying individual stocks. Since this is against Dave's teaching on investments, I'm wondering how much these "sponsors" are spending to support the board for you to post things not in line with DR's plan? I can understand having to pay for more hits and bandwidth on a growing board, but isn't there another way to go about it. These threads are becoming a little intrusive and may, dare I say it, cause some newbies to stumble.

[Roy Randolph]

There seems to have been a flurry of "Sponsor" threads in the last day. Valueline encourages buying individual stocks. Since this is against Dave's teaching on investments, I'm wondering how much these "sponsors" are spending to support the board for you to post things not in line with DR's plan? I can understand having to pay for more hits and bandwidth on a growing board, but isn't there another way to go about it. These threads are becoming a little intrusive and may, dare I say it, cause some newbies to stumble.

Just so you know that Charter Members that donate to the site can not see the ads, and a centralized location, a special forum of LLNOE Sponsors is made available if a Charter Member wish's to view the LLNOE Sponsors. When a new sponsor is placed on the forum it will show up in the new posts and if I place several at one time, like last night it will appear LLNOE was flooded with sponsors, as if its bad or something, only because they where all posted since your last visit you will see them in the NEW POSTS at one time.

Yes there is another way to go about it, I much rather NOT have sponsors on the site at all. The alternative is a significant increase in Charter Members or go to a Paid Membership site I see no way around not having the advertisements.

In regards to LLNOE getting any income off these Sponsors, actually unless someone purchases a product or service, LLNOE gets nothing. Unless you own a site that gets 100,000 unique visits a month (not just 100,000 visits from the same 1,000 people) that is how most all web sites generate income from referrals, they do not pay LLNOE a fee to get their adds run in advance.

I can see what ads work and the ones that don't, and once they have been on the site for a period of time to develop a track record or lack there of, the non-productive ads will be removed.

And in regards to your case as to Value Line making some one stumble, it all depends how you view stumbling, the only ones that will need this service or those on Baby Step 7 (and maybe Baby Step 4), they will have already changed their their family tree, not using debt "as a tool", and on their way to building wealth. Yes, Dave's recommendation is to use Mutual Funds (which in most cases is stocks) and paid for real estate. At that point not a person is on pretty solid ground, it sure isn't like comparing to the use of credit cards.

Value Line for some could be a good service for what ever reason they want to use the service, it shows poorly on LLNOE, it will gone soon enough anyway.

[kaykwilts]

Isn't this a contradiction to Dave's program, since we are forever telling people to drop the netflix subscription?

Netflix is a better solution than I see what some people do. For $20 a month I can get all the movies I want. There are even plans that are less than this. My SIL and BIL who recently purchased a $32,000 car and make probably $40,000 do not rent a movie. If they see a movie they want to see they just purchase the DVD. They have several bookcases full of just DVDs.

What I like to do which is even more frugal is get DVDs from the library. We are very blessed in our town that our library carries the move current movies. I do subscribe every once in a while to Netflix in order to get tv series since we decided not to subscribe to television part of the cable.

[Dorothy]

I think once a person has a "larger" sum set aside for retirement and/or is on the "building wealth" step, that there isn't a problem with that person holding a small % (5%?) of individual stocks in their portfolio.