I attended a school that was kindergarten through 8th grade in one school. We called the K-5 portion the elementary school and the 6-8 portion the junior high. Together, we called them the grade school. I picked “elementary school” in the poll.
I say “fiver” instead of five. It’s the Canadian way.
Same for my high school, except that there’s still only one high school. It was a smallish unincorporated city surrounded by Los Angeles, so it didn’t have a lot of room to expand. I just checked the population stats, though, and they’re about 25% higher than when I lived there (I know there’s more density now). Maybe more singles or seniors are who expanded the population.
My elementary school is a Catholic one and my only school that was in one building. I still pass it occasionally when I have to go to the hospital, instead of the local clinic (for whatever reason). Looks pretty much the same. They painted some trim a dark blue and added a couple of potted plants outside the (in my time) mostly unused front door. Otherwise looks exactly the same.
This is true, but I started kindergarten at 4.
I went to four different elementary schools, so hard to choose. I think they all still exist, but not sure.
I never went to middle school because the school district I lived in at the time went straight from elementary school at 6th grade to high school at 7th grade.
Our family moved a lot when I was a kid, so I went to seven different schools between kindergarten and high school.
When I’m channeling my inner Raymond Chandler (yes it happens) I might use fin for five, as in “Hey buddy - got two fins for a sawbuck?”
Makes me think of my favorite Abbott & Costello bit “2 tens for a 5”
I check my 401k balance daily, which I know is a bad habit, one I have been trying to break.
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I have a final salary pension (if you retire at the standard pension age you get 1/n of you final salary for each year of service), so I never have had a retirement portfolio. On two occasions I requested a calculation of what my pension would be if I took early retirement (and on the second occasion did so). I also have some shares that provide part of my savings (though I wouldn’t consider it a retirement plant I could use it tp top up my retirement income if necessary) which I check on roughly once a quarter.
I don’t use spacer words, but my timing isn’t impeccable.
Same.
I check my retirement account about once every three or four months, so I said “other” (falls between two of the options).
And, I, too, don’t use spacer words, but I doubt my timing is impeccable (though it’s pretty good).
Like others, no spacer words here, and I’m very peccable.
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My retirement account is included in my daily Quicken download so the balance is always updated, but I rarely pay attention to it. I only look at the investments once a year around my birthday for rebalancing to see if anything needs changing.
I use “one thousand” as spacer words, but not “one, one thousand” that always seemed dumb to me. I say it like a real number - one thousand one, one thousand two, …
One thousand one, one thousand two.
But it doesn’t help my timing much, because I can’t judge whether I’m saying it at the right speed — that is, I can tell whether I’m sayingitrealfast, or . . . verrry . . . sllooowly, but there’s quite a range in the middle and if you’re talking more than a couple of seconds being slightly off in the pace adds up.
Every Thursday in the business park where my office is is Food Truck Thursday, where a different food truck comes every week. Getting lunch from the food truck has become my weekly routine.
Both my sister and I are retired, and she checks her Fidelity account Every Single Day.
Oh well. Gives her something to do.
I started the food truck poll because I went to my first one last week (Mexican) I was wondering if I was ahead or behind my peers. As usual, I’m behind.
I check my portfolio several times a day, when the market is open. I know I shouldn’t.
Recently my husband had a discussion about “One Mississippi, two Mississippi,” and someone what would be the version for the metric system. So he said, “One metric system, two metric system, …”.
Regarding food trucks, a Thai food truck started appearing near home during COVD and it’s still there every Wednesday, but we no longer see it, as a building was built in our sight line. So we forget about it for weeks, and then remember it’s there, and then get something from them.
We also went to two street food festivals this year, which are basically a bunch of food trucks gathered together. So we probably average out to eating from a food truck about once a month. Is that considered frequent?