What Are Your Life NUMBERS So Far?

[iLander]

The sheer number of things that you own and go through, during your life, is staggering.

I wrote this up once for my husband's anniversary card, and it shocked me.

In my life so far:

Married 32 years

E-rings 4 (if you count my anniversary ring, which is all I wore for 7 years)

Apartments 11

Houses 5

Cars 10

Cats 6

Dogs 2

Couches 12 (including 4 in my current home )

Purses over 20

It takes some thinking, but it does give you a longer view of life and all it's "stuff".

What are your numbers? Feel free to add in anything you want (lots of yoga mats? waffle makers?), let's hear it.

 

[distracts]

In my life so far:

Married: 2 years

E-rings: just the 1, but I wear some other rings on that finger occasionally

Apartments: 1, plus a dorm

Houses: 3, if you count the two I lived in with my parents

Cars: 2

Cats: 3

Dogs: 1

Couches: 2 (not counting my parents', since they weren't "mine")

Kindle books: 1886 (only a few of them are free project gutenberg books too... I would be ashamed but I love books)

 

[kenny]

Partnered 13 years

"E-rings" 2

Diamonds 30, maybe

Cameras 13, maybe

Apartments 4

Houses 3

Sexual partners NOYB

Cars 7

Cats 0

Dogs 3

Birds 7, maybe

Couches 4

Guitars 14, maybe

Pianos 7, maybe

Relationships 4

Purses 0 ... so far

 

[isaku5]

Partnered 13 years

"E-rings" 2

Apartments 4

Houses 3

Cars 7

Cats 0

Dogs 3

Birds 7, maybe

Couches 4

Guitars 14, maybe

Pianos 7, maybe

Relationships 4

Purses 0 ... so far

Married for 52 years

E-rings 2

Apartments 0

Houses 3

Children 2

Grandchildren 2

Cars 10

Dogs 0

Cats 8

Cottages 0

Pianos 1

Birds: 1 (actually our daughter's, but he lived and died with us. Charlie Brown was the baddest boy in town and he loved it!!)

 

[gregchang35]

With my current rship:
Partnered : 9 yrs, planning for the 10yr anni bling!!!! Though nothing flash, kids tend to chew up budget! Lol
House: 3
Apt 1
Pets: none
Engagement rings (no bling) : 1
Bling rings: 3 (mine)+1 his
Other bling: earrings n necklace-2.
Cars: 4
Couches: 4. Currently 3 in this house!
TV: 5, 3 in current home!
Small leather goods: 5 (1 travel wallet) - all LV.
Kitchen ware- love the le crueset range.. Slowly acquiring them. Lol

 

[House Cat]

Married 5 years

E-rings 2 (only one from this relationship)

Apartments 10

Houses 2

Cars 6

Couches 10

Cats 7

Dogs 4

Purses ???

Children 4

Grandchildren 1

Pianos 2

Birds 2

 

[amc80]

Married 3

E-rings 1

Houses/apartments- 33, and #s 34 and 35 will happen within a month. And I'm 35 years old :-/

Cars 7

Cats 3

Dogs 2

Couches 2

 

[KaeKae]

In my life so far:

Married: one time, 26 years next month

kids: 2

E-rings: 3

bands: 7

Houses 7

States: 5

Cars 6

Cats 10

Dogs 5

pet rats: 3

Couches 10

Purses no idea

shoes: no idea

piano: 1

sets of china/plates: 6

 

[manderz]

Married: 2 1/2 years

Together: 13 years

E-rings: 1

Apartments: 5

Houses: 2 (in another few weeks)

Cars: 3

Couches: 5

Cats:2

Dogs: 1

Children: 0

Piercings: 13

Boats: 2

 

[diamondringlover]

Married 31 years

Kids 2, no grandchildren and neither are married

E-rings 4

Apartments 0

Houses 2

Cars 7

Cats 1

Dogs 3

Couches 6

Purses dont know....

all of these numbers are since I got married

 

[Jambalaya]

Fun thread! So, these are lifetime numbers. For example, I don't have a thousand books right now, but have probably owned this many in my lifetime.


Marriages: 1

Engagement rings: 1

Number of dwellings lived in: 7

Farm animals: 30

States lived in: 1

Couches: 3

Pianos: 3

Pairs of earrings: About 70
Rings: About 40
Necklaces/Pendants: About 100
Bracelets: About 40

Books: 1000

Purses: 3

Wallets: 10

Shoulder bags: 40

Friends lost due to circumstance, death, geography, growing apart, or inexplicable sudden bitchiness: 20

Family members lost to death: 6

Bosses: 8

Jackets: 60. (God, how I love jackets.)

Mugs: 40. (I love mugs too!)

Scarves: 60. (Love scarves!)

Boxes of hair dye: 80

Candy items eaten: 11,000. (Estimated weekly average X number of weeks I've lived.)

Cups of coffee drunk: 33,000.

Visits to Tiffany: 40

 

[distracts]

Married for 52 years

My grandmother - married for over 70 years - says that marriage gets easy after the first 50 years. Can you confirm?

Kitchen ware- love the le crueset range.. Slowly acquiring them. Lol

What colors do you collect and what's your favorite piece? We do green and yellow. I think my favorite of them is the real tiny ones that are perfect for single-serve chicken pot pies. We have a bunch so we can make them in bulk and pop them in the garage freezer - they cook better in le creusets than in single-serve size pie tins!

Fun thread! So, these are lifetime numbers. For example, I don't have a thousand books right now, but have probably owned this many in my lifetime.

I just used kindle books since there was an easy count available for that on the app - if I counted up LIFETIME books I'd surely be well over 5k. I have always bought between 3 and 6 books per week, and if you multiply that times weeks in a year times since kindergarten... that's a lot of books. I've only ever gotten rid of two - Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld and Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay, the two books that win my award for "the only books I hated so much I didn't keep" - so I could count them all up, but that seems like way too much effort.

 

[isaku5]

Wow!! 70+ years of togetherness (sanctified by marriage). Way to go

After 50 years, our memories fade too and we don't have the energy or the wish to start all over again.

One sobering thought for me is that I can't imagine life without my sweetheart.

 

[gregchang35]

Hi distracts- my favorite piece is actually the kettle. Reddish/orange in colour. We don't use it often, more of a show piece on the kitchen stove. Just a little bit pop of color. I use it about once a month!!! We have an electric kettle that gets used all the time.

O'wise my 28cm shallow pan gets used every single day!!!
I have a wok as well which gets used now and then.
I have the baking trays for the garlic breads.

So- slowly acquiring them.

 

[LLJsmom]

This is fun...and funny!

Marriage 1
Married years 18
kids 2
houses 3
cars 4
jobs (post college) 4
degrees 1 (would love another after the kids go to college)
e-rings 2
earrings 2 (no joke)
bracelets that I bought myself 3
necklaces that I bought myself 3
miles ran 5500+
bikram classes 450+

 

[cflutist]

Married 30 years (2 husbands)

"E-ring diamonds" 6
0.75 E-I1 (now in pendant)
1.50 F-VS1 (now in RHR)
2.05 D-VS2 (traded in for pear)
3.01 F-SI1 (pear)
0.80 FY (Tiffany RHR)
2.21 F-SI1 - CBI RHR

Diamonds - haven't counted

Colored Stones - haven't counted

Apartments 1

Houses 3

Cars (Toyota Cressida, Supra-Turbo, Camry, Lexus RX450h)

Cats 1 (adopted from MIL before it ran away)

Dogs 5 - all German Shepherds

Flutes - 6 (plus a piccolo)

Pianos 3

Purses - not many

TVs currently in house - 3 (LR, FR, my office)

Employers - 3

States lived in - 1

Age at retirement - 54

Teddy Bears /Madame Alexander Dolls - more than 2000 (inherited from my mom, hubby currently sells on eBay)

Most recently 52 staples in my head from a craniotomy and neurosurgery to remove a brain tumor ... also 3 titanium plates and 14 screws (to hold the bone flap in place) And that's why I didn't go to the GTG.

 

[jordyonbass]

I like the idea of this, it shows the full scope of people that makes up this little forum. Here's my numbers:

Married: 1 year in 12 days from now (together for nearly 8 years)

Experience at life: 15 years worth over 27 years

House: 1

Cars: 2

Boats: 2 (technicially 3 but I gave one away to my neighbour lol)

Bass guitars: 5

Regular guitars: 2

Cats: 2

Broken Bones: 9

Tagged billfish for science: 203 in 10 years

Largest of those billfish: 1200lb+

Money spent on the above: at least half a million dollars

We all have different priorities in life

 

[iLander]

All right people . . . there are some numbers here that need explanations from you or worthless commentary from me:

distracts; that's a lotta Kindle! Mostly fiction or nonfiction?

Kenny: what do you do with your old pianos?

isaku5: 52 years! What's your secret for a long marriage?

gregchang35: how do you keep the Le crueset clean? Mine seem to be all stained from lots of use.

House Cat: Finally, someone that has also gone through a ton of couches. Kind of makes you snicker when you hear the words "heirloom furniture" doesn't it?

KaeKae; I'm ignoring the rats. did you inherit all the china?

Manderz; okay, we now need a list of where all the piercings are

diamondrnglover: do I hear disappointment in the "no grandchildren" part? I, too, am still without grandchild.

Jambalaya; I have also lost friends to inexplicable sudden bitchiness (ISB). We should start a foundation to find a cure.

distracts; I need to get the T-shirt: "Marriage is easy after the first 50 years". Your grandmother's a hoot!

isaky5; Yeah, I couldn't do all this again!

greg; please see question above

LLJsmom: What the heck is bikram?

Cflutist; I'm so glad you can start to laugh about that surgery, you have a great spirit! What kind of teddy bears? I will slip in a number that wasn't on my original list: I have over 300 teddy bears. . .

jordyonbass: WTH is a billfish? And what do you have against them?

 

[cflutist]

Mainly Steiff, Hermann (German), Merrythought, Dean, (British) and a whole bunch of others. Right now they occupy two bedrooms (floor to ceiling), our hallway bathroom, our laundry room, my hubby's office. You can see why I want to get rid of them. Hubby also runs a store on our own Linux Webserver, but he put all of that on hold in February because of my impending surgery.

 

[Calliecake]

Married: 23 years same husband

E Rings: 5

Wedding bands: 6

Apts: 1

Homes: 2

Cars: 12 (between the two of us)

Pets: 1

Employers: 4 (between the 2 of us)

Purses: Too many

All of the above are during the marriage.

 

[jordyonbass]

iLander

Billfish are the family of marine fish that typically have a long upper jaw that is called a 'bill'. Swordfish, Marlin, Sailfish and Spearfish all come under the 'Billfish' family.

And I have nothing against them at all, quite the opposite actually!! My father and I have devoted much of our life and income to targetting large, oceanic apex predators when we go fishing. Around 15-20 years ago there was major problems with bio mass sizes around australia, so my family (along with hundreds of fishermen) helped to introduce the gamefish tagging program which has helped marine biologists track size, growth rates, distribution and migration patterns of a species we otherwise knew virtually nothing about other than the observation that it wasn't so prevalent anymore. Since the introduction of the tag and release program, the wildstocks have bounced back and more fishermen are now releasing their captures with the highest level of care taken. It's a beautiful thing

I had recently looked into our logbook after I decided to start keeping one when I was 16-17 years old; 203 fish in 10 years isn't bad when I estimate our family only caught 50 or so in the 10 years before that!
Of all my numbers, that's probably one I am most proud of. For marine biologists to get the same kind of data, it would take millions of dollars of investment, donation and fund-raising followed by tens of thousands of hours of labour. We really do offer a fantastic way for science to conduct research without the massive expenditure required for the data.

Here's a pic of me and a 200lb Marlin we tagged and released, he was re-caught just over 18 months later and was pushing 300lb

 

[cflutist]

iLander

Billfish are the family of marine fish that typically have a long upper jaw that is called a 'bill'. Swordfish, Marlin, Sailfish and Spearfish all come under the 'Billfish' family.

And I have nothing against them at all, quite the opposite actually!! My father and I have devoted much of our life and income to targetting large, oceanic apex predators when we go fishing. Around 15-20 years ago there was major problems with bio mass sizes around australia, so my family (along with hundreds of fishermen) helped to introduce the gamefish tagging program which has helped marine biologists track size, growth rates, distribution and migration patterns of a species we otherwise knew virtually nothing about other than the observation that it wasn't so prevalent anymore. Since the introduction of the tag and release program, the wildstocks have bounced back and more fishermen are now releasing their captures with the highest level of care taken. It's a beautiful thing

I had recently looked into our logbook after I decided to start keeping one when I was 16-17 years old; 203 fish in 10 years isn't bad when I estimate our family only caught 50 or so in the 10 years before that!
Of all my numbers, that's probably one I am most proud of. For marine biologists to get the same kind of data, it would take millions of dollars of investment, donation and fund-raising followed by tens of thousands of hours of labour. We really do offer a fantastic way for science to conduct research without the massive expenditure required for the data.

Here's a pic of me and a 200lb Marlin we tagged and released, he was re-caught just over 18 months later and was pushing 300lb

Really cool!

 

[distracts]

Thanks, Greg - I often get the Le Creuset pieces for my husband for gifts since he is HARD to buy for but he always uses cooking stuff. He's been complaining about needing a new kettle - so I am totally putting that on the list.

After 50 years, our memories fade too and we don't have the energy or the wish to start all over again.

One sobering thought for me is that I can't imagine life without my sweetheart.

Ah, well, I've only been with my husband for five years and I can't imagine life without him already... or remember it, even. We've both managed to accidentally insert the other into memories of things we did long before we met each other, and have to work to figure out who was REALLY there since it certainly wasn't the spouse!

distracts; I need to get the T-shirt: "Marriage is easy after the first 50 years". Your grandmother's a hoot!

She really is! A lot of humor comes from the fact that all of her ideas are SO out of date - totally mired in the 1950s (or earlier). She is shocked that I've been married two years without having a baby - she told me at my wedding that nine months to a year later, I'd have a baby "that's just what happens, you can't stop it." Not entirely sure how to explain to her that there are ways of preventing that.

distracts; that's a lotta Kindle! Mostly fiction or nonfiction?

Probably 2/3 fiction to 1/3 nonfiction - maybe more like 75/25 though. I buy a lot of nonfiction books in paper if I think I may need to reference back to them out of order, since I find that difficult to do with ebooks. I am such a book junkie - I don't have genre barriers if it looks interesting.

 

[distracts]

iLander

Billfish are the family of marine fish that typically have a long upper jaw that is called a 'bill'. Swordfish, Marlin, Sailfish and Spearfish all come under the 'Billfish' family.

And I have nothing against them at all, quite the opposite actually!! My father and I have devoted much of our life and income to targetting large, oceanic apex predators when we go fishing. Around 15-20 years ago there was major problems with bio mass sizes around australia, so my family (along with hundreds of fishermen) helped to introduce the gamefish tagging program which has helped marine biologists track size, growth rates, distribution and migration patterns of a species we otherwise knew virtually nothing about other than the observation that it wasn't so prevalent anymore. Since the introduction of the tag and release program, the wildstocks have bounced back and more fishermen are now releasing their captures with the highest level of care taken. It's a beautiful thing

I had recently looked into our logbook after I decided to start keeping one when I was 16-17 years old; 203 fish in 10 years isn't bad when I estimate our family only caught 50 or so in the 10 years before that!
Of all my numbers, that's probably one I am most proud of. For marine biologists to get the same kind of data, it would take millions of dollars of investment, donation and fund-raising followed by tens of thousands of hours of labour. We really do offer a fantastic way for science to conduct research without the massive expenditure required for the data.

Here's a pic of me and a 200lb Marlin we tagged and released, he was re-caught just over 18 months later and was pushing 300lb

So cool!! Marlin are gigantic - what the heck did you catch that was 1200 lbs!?!?!?!??!?!

 

[gregchang35]

Hi ilander...
LONG story...
keeping the le creuset stain free.... well, my set is only at most 2.5yrs old. That is how long we have been in our new house. also, i cook maybe 4/ 7 days, so not used daily, is my meaning. .. Also.. the kitchen stove top is induction. not sure how it works but it may be easier on the pans than open flame or electric stove tops??? my previous kitchens were gas/ electric... So, when we moved in....we HAD to replace all my cook ware!!!!!

le creusets were the ones that caught my eye. are all non stick pans. i mainly do stir fries. so, the only 'stains' (more discolouration from use on the heating element area) i see are at the base of the pan, which i can live with; see pic. is this what you mean???



i have a cast iron wok that i dearly love the look of, but its too bloody heavy and it is supposed to be non stick, but it isnt... so i only use it when i run out of pans....

i dont own any bakeware, as i dont usually bake... only a tray to heat up garlic bread... heeheh.
there is a skillet that is always hard to clean, so its really an immediate soak when i have finished using it to make it easier to clean.

Cleaning is usually dishwashing liquid and a dish rag. nothing special, i dont think..

I am not sure if that helps????
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hi Distracts

There are 2 types of kettles... this is a pic of the one i have which i love....it is the classic shape / colour combo that got me.


however, i have seen this 'new' type where i think it is more practical. i did not see this design when i was doing the kitchen ware replacement... the cover over the spout is connected to the handle, which makes is so much easier on the fingers.

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there are so many creuset cookware that i like, so i slowly buy the items i want.. er.. oops.. i need...

 

[kenny]

Kenny: what do you do with your old pianos?

Sell em.


Two secrets to a long marriage:
1. Don't die
2. Low standards

 

[Ally T]

This thread has made me chuckle all the way through!
Here are my numbers:

Marriages: 1

Married for: 8 years

Engagement Rings: 2

Children: 2

Houses: 5 (but have only ever owned this current marital home)

Apartments: 1

Couches: 5 in our present home!

Piano's: 1 (Bought for me when I was 8 & it's still with me...)

Cats: 7 (5 whilst with parents & 2 with us now)

Total Cars Owned: 11 plus 2 company cars long ago

Miles Run: absolutely no idea but average 20 per week

McVities Chocolate Digestives Consumed During My Life So Far: must be pushing a million. Easily

 

[iLander]

Married 3

E-rings 1

Houses/apartments- 33, and #s 34 and 35 will happen within a month. And I'm 35 years old :-/

Cars 7

Cats 3

Dogs 2

Couches 2

What? Have you got ants in your pants?

 

[missy]

Numbers LOL I can barely remember but here are a few I do...
I am a creature of habit that does not like change and just recently left a job where I worked for 25 years before I left due to my accident.

Husbands 1

Years
together 16

Homes
owned 4

Homes
currently
owned 2

Cats
adopted 7


Shoes/
purses/
clothing too many to count


Exercise eqipment
currently
owned
9 huge pieces including ellipticals/treadmills/stationary bicycles and
Pilates reformer

exercise
equipment
owned over
lifetime again, too many to count or remember

years spent
in college/graduate
school/residency 9


years in
career 26



total places
worked in
the last 26
years some
concurrently
with each other 5

years at
current job 14


broken bones 2

musical instruments 4
played

bicycles owned countless, well over 50 b/w my dh and me

tandems owned currently 2

miles cycled in the year before I broke my leg 4,000 or was it 5,000?


years till
retirement No clue!

 

[Catmom]

Married 35 years

E-rings 3

Apartments 0

Condo 1

Houses 3

Cars 7

Couches 9

Cats 10 inside plus those in my feral colony

Dogs 0

Purses ???

Children 2

Grandchildren none yet

Pianos 2

Birds 4

Ferret 1

Lizards 2

Turtles 2

Fish too many to count