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Well, walked away from house and GT
I wanted to extend a warm thank you and means this as a tear comes to my eye to the extended family I have been a part of on Truckblog. I had a rough year last year, out of work for 8 months and worked as a contractor and made good money. I lost my job again this year to a company out of Boston. I had filed papers to work out a mortgage with my loan company and they chose to foreclose on my house which was new in 2003. I am walking away and mailing them the keys on Thanksgiving, per my attorney. The Mustang at this point is not worth the money I spend if I need to save to get another house next year, there will be plenty I am sure.
I stripped the car this past weekend and you know what, I cried all night last night as we swapped parts over to a 2008 GT and guy I met in the parking lot at Target of all places. He is giving me good money for the color matched parts so the local new owner will get a stocker when I walk in with keys in December. I know things could be worse, I have no family personally and my family here in town are 100% behind me for what I have put myself thru the past 18 months. I am a fighter, not a quitter but you know there is only 24 hours in a day and I was working 16-18 and not being able to live and have a life. I love the house, but not going to kill myself and not be able to enjoy my investment. I thank you, everyone of you and I will indeed remain here if wanted and will consider a 2010 next Fall or Spring. I still have the truck and the other woman, 1990 Notchback so 06LNOR will be laid to rest in December when I had over the keys to the new owner.
I have never been so down in all my life, I just turned 35 and I won't go down as a quitter, but will prevail the winner once I get back on my feet. Just had to share, needed to let out some emotions.
I love you guys but at this point I need support and family which I have as well. 
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- November 24 2008 : 5:36a
| | Dood, you will always be welcome here. I know how you feel and I understand compleatly. Things will change and you will be back on your feet before you know it. I know I am a ways away and we have never met but my ears are open and if need be let me know if I cam help in ANY way. Take care and don't be a stranger!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | |
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- November 24 2008 : 9:56a
| | Man that sucks dude. I lost my job in February. I had plenty of side jobs luckily and I found another job 2 months later. Income isn't as good but I'm still able to make it. Good luck with everything and I'm sure better times will come. | |
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- November 24 2008 : 9:56a
| Brandon sorry about your falling on hard times. But know that we are all here for ya and would love to have you stick around but understand also that you may take some time to yourself. I wish there was something we could say or do to make thing easier but the sad part is there is not and some of us could also be in that same boat at some point ion the near future with things being the way they are now.
Good luck you will make it out ok | |
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- November 24 2008 : 10:26a
| Wow Brandon, I feel for ya man. Please let me say that with your tenacity and skill you'll come out of this okay. Life has it's own way of kickin' people in the nuts from time to time. It's Mother Nature's way of getting us to keep things in proper perspective.
In my adult life I've been layed-off 5 time now (but who's counting?). The worst was when I was laid-off exactly one week after moving into the house we'd had built (and doubled the mortgage!). It was 7-months before I landed the next gig. But as I look back on that time it was actually the best summer I've ever had. My wife and I got to spend time doing things together that we'd never had the time to do before. The money was the big struggle as was the constant tension of knowing you gotta find something quick.
A career counslor once told me that the best way to look at a lay-off was to see it as an opportunity to do something different with your life. Since you're in a position where you have to change your life anyway - what do you want to do with it. What course corrections do you want to make?
Hang in there Brandon - it might be difficult to believe now, but things will turn around. In the meantime, you've got all of us - I just don't know if that's a positive or a kick in the pants! | |
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- November 24 2008 : 11:10a
| | thanks everyone, I had planned to sell my house this year after 5 years of ownership and move into a somewhat bigger house with a little bigger down payment. With the market and all, the houses are there but no money like I had planned 5 years ago. | |
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- November 24 2008 : 12:36p
| Damn that sucks man! Keep your head up things will turn around.... | |
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- November 24 2008 : 5:08p
| | Brandon good luck, something will go your way. | |
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- November 29 2008 : 11:46p
| Well, I have an update. I may have gotten approved for a new apartment, brand new buildings less than 5 miles where I live now! I am wound up tonight! Still a shame but the mustang has to go, no way right now! Just wanted to keep you all in the loop! Thanks for all the kind words and emails!
Brandon | |
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- November 30 2008 : 1:46p
| I know just how you feel and it suck big time. I hope the best for you and your family. Something will turn up.
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- November 30 2008 : 7:18p
| | Hey Brandon--sorry to hear about your rough times! That really is tough to go through but you WILL pull through it. Hope all goes well with the apt! Keep us posted.. | |
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- November 30 2008 : 9:55p
| | My prayers are with you Brandon. I know how you feel as it happened to me also. Keep the faith and God will bless you. | |
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- December 1 2008 : 4:46p
| | Sorry to hear about the tough times. I wish you good luck. | |
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- December 1 2008 : 4:49p
| Brandon, sorry to hear such sad news. It unfortunately is getting way too common these days. Keep your head up high.
Hang tough, i'm sure better days are ahead for you! | |
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- December 15 2008 : 7:51p
| You got my prayers. I'm fighting for a job now. so you ain't the only one feels like they got the whole world down. keep your head up.. Just a test in life's book.. | |
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- December 19 2008 : 9:35p
| Damn Brandon,
As johnny come lately..I'm sorry to hear about all of that. I understand you 95% completely. Why 95%, I was almost there a few years ago with my house. I was luck...no BLESSED to find someone to lease from me. But I also know people who done the same as you. My prayers are with you bro. | |
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- December 20 2008 : 12:53a
| | Sorry to hear about your misfortune. We're all pulling for you brother. I have two cousins (sisters) whose husbands both got pink slipped this past week. This coming year is going to be a tough one for alot of people. We'll keep you in our prayers. | |
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- December 20 2008 : 5:32a
| | Well court is Jan. 9, 2009 at 9 AM. I am seeing a trend here 1/09/09 @ 0900. I am all set, so should go without a hitch, fingers crossed. Thanks and you guys don't even want to know about the Mustang. The bank is having me drive to a local auto auction, go figure. | |
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- December 21 2008 : 8:46a
| Quote: | I just turned 35 and I won't go down as a quitter, but will prevail the winner once I get back on my feet. |
Brandon, you have my sincere sympathies.
I'm a tad older (almost 50) and like yourself worked doubly hard most of my life.
What I can tell you from experience (having been to hell and back again & lived to tell the tale), is - that the ONLY thing that matters in this life is FAMILY first then Friends.
Material crap doesn't mean squat and it don't matter one iota in the big picture of the measure of a mans worth.
You come into this world naked and screaming with NOTHING but family and you should aim to go out the other end just the way you arrived nekkid, screaming and with nothing (prefferably the victim of a jealous husband with a shotgun, while jumpin the back fence).
Man you can't take a house & car with you dude!
We never OWN anything material in this world - period, no matter how much others with a vested interest - will tell you otherwise.
We are not owners of anything - merely custodians of it for the next generation.....even a block of land.
You can have a title deed but - lose a war of invasion by foreigners and you'll be planting rice in the paddy fields for the new Chinese owners of that same plot of land, and the victors won't be paying you anything for it!  (i.e nuthings guaranteed in this life).
Ownership is a myth.
Everything of this world - all the gold and all the silver and everything else - belongs to God, he tells us just that in the Bible.
We make the mistake of asking for what we want - not what we need!
Pray to God for your needs and they will be met and all you need is food water and shelter to survive - they are your needs, anything else is just wants.
The good lord KNOWS what you need LONG before you ask for it and when you ask for your NEEDs - you should give thanks that you have already receieved, because he has already foreseen your need and made more than adequate provision, for your needs.
You are doing the SMART & right thing to walk away from posessions that you OWE more than they are worth.
You are stickin it to the man, dude!
That fat lazy SOB has been living off your back all his life, and when you tell him to stick his material posessions and usury (loans with interest) where the sun don't shine...well you know what? - that Fat lazy SOB is gonna have to get off his fat behind and make a honest living for hisself....something as a contractor you will NEVER have any problem motivating yourself to do.
These loans sharks financiers will ALL see their houses of cards come tumbling down in this fiscal morass that your nation and by extension the rest of the world now faces.
You will get up again - it is all about swings and round abouts!
When lenders and employers etc keep changing the rules, shifting the goal posts half way thru the match - you know the outcome is fixed - you are better to walk away and not play their lopsided, fixed, stacked, rigged game - where you cannot win no matter what you do.
Ultimately - you WILL WIN.
1. You'll come to realise most of the above, so be well ahead of the game, and not get caught again. Fool me once - shame on you - fool me twice - shame on me!
2. You and many like you, who refuse to play the game - will bring down & humble, the usurers and theives masquerading as bankers, who have cleverly orchestrated this the greatest transferral of wealth in the history of the world. Their shell game ONLY works for as LONG as people play the game - do your family a favor and start teaching them NOT to play that game (i.e never borrow money).
You know - there IS a game called "making do" (with what you have) and another called "saving up" for what you need or want until you have the cash to PAY for it - without borrowing.
We all have this choice and as more of us elect to use it and to deny the lenders, then the more of them will go broke and lose everything.
You feel sad for what you have lost.
There may come a day when you look back and realise this is the best possible thing ever happened to you - and that - getting out from under the burden of debt was the SMARTEST move you ever made.
I know MANY 'rich' people - few of them have much in the way of material posession but they have famly & friends & love in their lives, - something that money cannot buy!
OK money may NOT buy you hapiness but it sure can make misery a lot more tolerable!
Now - if it is YOUR OWN money - and not someone elses your borrowing - well then you might have "a very tolerable period of misery" ahead of you, whilst those who refuse to see the big picture and continue to play the shell & pea game, put themselves their families and friends & their love relationshps - thru absolute purgatory, trying to "win" at a game where there are no winners - only losers.
You didn't lose anything - in reality you just won everything!
But don't tell everyone OK - otherwise everyone will want to join your team, and that will spoil it for the few of us who actually know how it REALLY works.
Ask your father in heaven for your needs in solem prayer, and ask in the name of his only son whom he sacrificed for you - and your prayer WILL be heard, if it is God's will, it will be granted, and he already knows all your needs in advance and has already made more than adequate provision for those needs, so at the same time give thanks that you have already received, with a thankfull heart.
(The Lord loves a cheerfull giver & a cheerfull receiver equally).
You may find that you lead a different life, and see the world thru different eyes, and you may discover you are more 'wealthy' in the things that truly matter (family, friends, love relationships) than all those supposedly wealthy materially obsessed people out there in the world - who haven't even half a clue about happiness.
May the Lord God thru his son, bless you and yours thru these difficult times Brandon.
In 2 days time (Dec 23) I will attend the funeral of a 17 year old boy,who passed away in tragic circumstances last week, his 'wealthy' father, a very old friend of mine - this his ONLY son & heir.
He own's a big business and many houses - and materially is well off.
He is separated from his wife.....and now childless and has no heir to leave his material wealth too - nor will his bloodline & name carry on.
I own FAR LESS than him, materially - but have a wife and 3 grown healthy kids who all make me proud in one way or another most days.
I know who is well off, and who isn't - I can tell you - he would swap his position for mine right now, were that at all possible.
You have not yet lost anything truly important in life in your house or car!
Glass half full or half empty, tis the same glass - just how it is viewed that matters.
I think in time - you will think differently about how you feel right now, but that won't make the comming days or weeks much easier to cope with, while your going thru the motions.
Just have faith, and all will be well in your future.
I sincerely believe that or I wouldn't have typed it.
I hope my own life experience & advice / opinion, can help you to have a different viewpoint thru what will be trying times ahead and help you to cope better.
Chin up - you'll be no orphan in this situation as MANY of your fellow countrymen follow suit - this will be a period in history where no one will hold you to blame, for the circumstances of the time - about which you can do nothing.
Time for you to become the spiritual warrior, and play the REAL game of life. Learn to live well and die well.
You will be thought the better man for it!
I already respect you the more, for the decisions you have made and actions you have taken.
Cheers. | |
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- December 22 2008 : 8:53a
| | Sorry to hear it, but at least you are being honorable about it and not tearing either item up knowing they are not yours anymore. | |
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Well, walked away from house and GT
