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Posts and News shall be ongoing and timely, on a very wide variety of subjects and happenings. If it inspires Aunty, it will be written there and sent to you if you signed up (please do!)
Wealth and Investments is the heavy on the plate and the reason Aunty started this website. In this day and age, you cannot depend on anyone else for your financial well being. You must take charge or you will be left behind. On these pages I will share all that I have learned, am doing, and continue to learn whether you are a senior like me, or a young one.
Reviews used to be called Workshop Notes but Aunty has expanded it to include subscriptions, events and products. These are condensed and cannot replace the value of actually being there but I hope they help – like borrowing Aunty’s notes if you missed the being there.
da Bests includes services, goods, restaurants, individuals, etc. that Aunty can attest to being her favorites and 100% recommended. From realtors, attorney, dentist, mechanics, to musubis and places to go. It is fun to be like those critics in publications and promote what Aunty feels is da best.
Beauty, Health and Exercise has a lot of stuff – mostly non conventional. Your health is really your responsibility, and depending on a drug to fix your problems may not be the best alternative for the long term maintenance of good health and longevity. Aunty’s beauty tips are simple ones but age on the face, hands and body happen anyway, so maybe failing eyesight is a good thing as Aunty gets older.
Recipes are simple tried and true ones. Brilliant son predicted it to be the most viewed pages. I think he is right. The Oio Fish Cake recipe seems to be viewed the most.
Aunty used to be a flight attendant for Pan Am eons ago. Flying as crew with free and discounted fares and benefits doesn’t apply anymore. Aunty’s Travel pages have tips and ways to fly in more comfort and hopefully save you money.
Finally, Miscs! are filled with miscellaneous stuff, some fun, some useful, and other tips and things that Aunty hopes you can spend some time in perusing when you are bored. One of Aunty’s favorites there is the Brain Age Test.
Please leave comments for Aunty, or email at Aunty@hawaii.rr.com. Any suggestions or requests that you have to improve this website is greatly appreciated. Visitors like you make Aunty happy.
Here is a disclaimer to this place, and this applies to every page on Aunty’s website: The information presented within this website is provided by Aunty for educational and entertaining purposes only and is not intended as, nor should be relied upon as tax, legal, medical, or investment advice. Please seek professional guidance when making your own decisions.
So, in other words, don’t sue Aunty because Aunty doesn’t claim to be an expert in any field. Aunty started this to share. Take everything with a grain of salt and your own common sense. Be nice.
Mahalo for visiting!
Hey Aunty,
What pages! You only had to go to a seminar and get things straight! Congratulations! It was good advice. And you’ve made it better.
Love,
Dianne
Thanks Dianne! I’ve learned from the best – and you were one of them!
Dear Aunty,
I think you are still svelte, agile, and powerful. In fact, you seem to get younger as you age (if that makes any sense). I hope you never mellow out…you’re too much fun when you bite off more than you can chew, and then chew, chew, chew…
Love and blessings,
The Thing
Hey Aunty — Whether it’s cash flow or capital growth, it’s always about timing. Hope you’re doing well — have a good one.
I am honored, Jeff. Your website BawldGuy.com really does give great advice. Advice, as you know, I don’t always take, but I must admit it is good stuff!
In a parallel to your Mango parable, I will give you one about the man going through the forest looking for a suitable stick from which to fashion a cane. “There’s a nice one–oh, it’s got a knot in it–that won’t do”. “Ah, there’s a good one–but it’s a little crooked, surely there’s a better one soon”. And so it went, each stick he found had some fault in it that sent him on to the next one. Until…he suddenly found that he was out of the forest. So many new investors have a similar strategy–looking for a straight stick–a perfect investment–but failing to pull the trigger until it is too late and the opportunities are gone.
Don’t know who to give credit for this one–but I’ve used it many times–even to my daughter, who was looking for a “straight stick”, but just recently got engaged to someone who may not be unblemished, but she was getting close to the other side of the forest.
Good one Bill!
Hello Auntie!
I came across your website when typing in senior discounts at CVS and saw your website. What’s this, I said to myself. Hey, someone in Honolulu. Some good it does me. I’m stuck here in Pawcatuck, CT. Well, I still feel kinship with you because, I too, was born in Honolulu, Kapiolani Hospital, before Hawaii was a State. How about that! My mother’s side of family was born in Hilo; so even though my family left the islands when I was only 11 years old, it is, and always will be, my home. My mom and dad retired in the ’70s and went back home to Hilo. Of course, they are no longer in paradise on earth, but that other paradise we will all head for some day.
It was wonderful to hear from someone like you reminding me of home. Are you the one on the right in your photo of 3 aunties? My mother gave me my middle name when wishing upon a falling star when she was pregnant with me in Waikiki where she was living at the time in 1945.
Aloha nui, Andrea
Aloha Andrea! You are a LONG way from home – means it is time for a visit! VERY different from when you were here though – lots of high rises, lots of traffic, and it is hotter than it used to be. But, it is still paradise and I can’t think of anywhere else we would live – especially since Uncle needs his ocean to fish and surf in.
Hope your winter is nice and mild and beautiful. Come back for a visit!!!
Enjoyed your bio page with the photo of 3 beautiful aunties and you certainly don’t look like a medicare-qualifying senior yet, keeping financially fit must contribute to your youthful appearance. You and KFG make an articulate and savvy team of site advisors. Mahalo nui loa, Tutu or Sistah (I wear many hats)
Mahalo Tutu!!! You so nice! Of course I take pictures with friends that are older than me – that’s the trick to looking younger, lol! (sorry sorry good friends!)
I don’t qualify for Medicare yet, but this year of the dragon, Aunty makes 60 years old – yikes! I do enjoy Ross senior discounts on Tuesdays and McDonald’s coffee, and discount Consolidated Theatre movie tickets though. Good stuff! Pretty soon I can get Zippy’s senior discount too!
Mahalo for your kindness!
Aunty
Hello aunty,
I met you once and you were the nicest lady I have met in a long time. You are full of aloha spirit. You gave me a pen with your website and I eventually got a chance to check it out. I love your information and advice. I look forward to reading as much as your posts that I can. Thank you for your guidance. Keep going strong and spreading your aloha!
Aloha Liz,
You are so sweet! I’m glad you checked out my website and accepted my pen! Sometimes I get carried away and people look at me weird – like “who is this lady giving me a pen?!?” LOL, well at least I know it worked when I gave one to you!
Mahalo for your visit and sweet comment. I look forward to our future together!
Aunty
I want some of your groovy pens! I was at BankOH Kahala and they were using them. Can I buy some in various colors, and refer my patients to you for financial services?
Aloha Beverly,
That’s kinda funny – you wanting my pens! I will leave some with “nephew” Davin Nakasato, the Branch manager. I have purple and pink ones left.
Also, I am not a financial service provider. I just write stuff that I learn so that others can learn too. Mahalo for the visit!
Aunty