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hell, i'd buy just her back door.

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Take a few minutes to look at connections between online merchants and the brands. For example Holts has setup connective with Ashton. CigarPage has deep ties to Oliva. CigarPage is owned by the family who started Cigarbid. IIRC, cigarbid and CI are owned by the same company.

Also Privada has put together a good family "tree" of who makes what. Compare the two lists and you can figure out which branch is in line with what you like.

I would strongly suggest subscribing to Holt's COTM in the next 48 hours so you can get the May selections. The Don Carlos Personal Reserve, VSG Sorcerer, My Father #5, Oliva Conn Reserve Churchill, and Machanudo Cafe Hyde Park are a steal (value of $80) at $35. Each month's selections go out on the second Friday if the month.

Corona Cigar, Holts, CigarPage, Neptune, and Small Batch send solid cigars. Do comparison shipping though. Holt's sales aren't really sales... they're advertisements of what their normal prices are. Corona is great when they run 20% off $150+. Their singles prices skew a bit high though. If you're going to spend $500+, wait for a 20% sale to buy your boxes. They'll be offering it Father's Day weekend and July 4th. (I had an issue with them but the resolution met my expectations.)

We're waiting on a 300k dispersement from the estate of my wife's aunt. The house sold fast but there's a lot of stocks to cash out.

We're going back and forth on using money to renovate our house or moving to a smaller house and selling our current one "as is". Also making sure the kids have a nice car and getting me the pickup truck I want (she drives a company car).

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Was anybody else watched the first three episodes so far? It’s been ok but I have seen better. I am wondering how they how they are gonna do 20 parts for this. They are already on the siege of Britain by episode 2.

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I learned one thing from those three hours... the Molatov visit to Germany. I hated how they skipped around. They went through the invasion of Poland and then backtracked to cover the treaty between Stalin and Hitler. Monday is Pearl Harbor. After promoting the series as stressing things not covered in decades, they're blowing past the embargo and diplomacy. E04 should be about the build up to Pearl Harbor with E05 covering new ground (the Japs missing the carriers/the breakdown of communication at the top of the DOW/the sailors who just spent all night with the ladies).

If E04-06 are a repeat of E01-03, all of the build up to this was complete bullshite. Just the same stories with a famous movie star narrating. The EP credits on this makes Jon Meacham an absolute joke of an unbiased "historian".

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Today’s creature comforts would include a much larger list and no generation will accept living at a lower financial life style than what they had growing up.

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First thank you for the well thought out post that actually makes a good point. All 4 of my grandparents were old enough to remember the depression. My parents were born in the early 50s, I'm a young Gen X, and my wife is a bit younger and falls in the Xennial subset. I have one kid who is in the very young millennial group and another at the start of Gen Z...so this has always been an interesting discussion for me.

My paternal grandparents worked hard and thanks to public sector jobs, knowing the importance of saving, and living within their means their retirement was quite comfortable. My maternal grandparents were unique. My grandfather ran a century old farm first settled by his great grandparents, was a successful politician, and played a part in the construction of the only interstate road in the county. Unfortunately he died at 53 which meant my grandmother had to go from being a housewife to working a desk job.

My parents were the first generation not to work a day in the public sector. They didn't take the lessons from their parents, divorced, and I grew up in a worse economic household than they did. (As an aside, my wife grew up living in a crudely constructed apartment inside of a former gas station.)

My dad's parents always imparted on me the value of getting a college degree (I'm the first on that side of the family) and I was lucky enough to have gone to college before costs exploded. My wife got out of extreme poverty through her full athletic scholarship (she should star in those NCAA ads). When we left our homes neither one of us had anything to fall back on with our parents.

Fast forward 25 years. We live fairly comfortably in a house we paid off without any help. My dad is living in the house where he grew up. As a result of me being an only child, each of my kids will inherit a paid off house. My grandkids will be the first to be affected by the rise of housing costs.

People like to criticize/blame those who have succeeded trough hard work and financial discipline. Those who go through life blaming others for their own shortcomings do not deserve any sympathy. That does not mean that college, gas, food, and housing costs aren't out of control. They are. But that isn't the fault of Boomers in general. That blame is misplaced and should be placed on the boomers in DC. Unfortunately you have hypocritical self centered idiots like Jill Filipovic who live to blame an entire generation for their own inadequacies.

I'm watching the WW2 series premiere. SNME's backstage:wrestling formula is something they should be using on RAW.

We have 2 kids. I am an only child. My dad has a house 6 hours from here and we also have a house that's paid off. In the end, both kids will have a house (or a nice down-payment if they want a different house) free and clear. It's about the only blessing in being an only GenX child. (No debts either thanks to my wife's wealthy aunt dying with no living children.) Also a few hundred thousand worth of land that has been passed down since the 19th century.

I feel for kids that are leaving college now with $250k of student loans and who don't have any hope of similar inheritances.

Have any of you ordered a box but were sent a single? I was looking forward to trying a stick and adding the rest. Instead I have a $240 stick that's pissing me off every time I look at it.

With their lack of a response Corona Cigar Company has lost a long time customer. Third straight order that they've screwed up and then shrugged their shoulders. Stay away!

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Ah so it was one of the six that malfunctioned. Gotcha.

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Correct, one of the big three. I do wonder how quickly they can investigate, make adjustments, and roll it out to the launch pad. I think late 2027 was the target for A3 if everything went perfect between A2 and then. SpaceX will have to dedicate more resources to SS tweaks now, so does this push A3 back to early 2028? Or they are willing to do A3 without a turnkey lander from both contractors?

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I don't think there was a retrieval ship, that was drone footage.

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I must have misheard that bit then. It certainly explains why the room was going nuts while it was blowing up.