Re: What's the best purchase you've ever made and why ?

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From: Rod Speed
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 07:04

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Joe <cyan999@post.com> wrote:

> Exlcuding anything to do with admirable things like making a
> charitable donation and / or paying for education (be it yours
> or someone elses), what so far is the best purchase you've
> ever made and please elaborate on why you think so.

The materials for the house I built myself, physically.

Because our tax system doesnt tax the principle residence on
capital gain and that produced one hell of an income tax free
at the time that I was building it, much more than the boss
of the operation I was working for was getting at the time.

Arguably the stocks I bought well before that was a better purchase,
but that wasnt a single purchase or even a single group of purchases
at roughly the same time, essentially because I was trading in those
stocks over decades, I started doing it when still in school, quite
literally, so that doesnt really qualify for your question.

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