Scraping by on $500k

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Threads like this make me really grateful for the life that I have. My husband and I make around 120k. Only debt is the mogage and about 30k in student loans. We own our cars and have no consumer debt. We both have pensions and 401ks. We have about 10k in savings and usually takes 2 or 3 vacations year plus trips to visit families. We are both pretty frugal people and we're very happy. I think it helps that we don't need a lot of luxury items in our life.

Grateful for being poor?

Grateful that I'm not stuck in some keeping up with the Jones style rat race that leaves me broke and miserable.

Because you know you can't keep up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:$500k and feeling v. comfortable.
4 kids in private, 529s fully funded.
No nanny, no lawn service, no house cleaner.
No vacation home. Nice vacations, usually domestic.
House bought for $1.2 15 years ago. Could pay off but prefer not to.
2 suvs '09,'11
Retirement pretty much set.

This is great but if I ever make 500,000 dollars a year, (not likely) I am paying someone to clean my house. That is all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Threads like this make me really grateful for the life that I have. My husband and I make around 120k. Only debt is the mogage and about 30k in student loans. We own our cars and have no consumer debt. We both have pensions and 401ks. We have about 10k in savings and usually takes 2 or 3 vacations year plus trips to visit families. We are both pretty frugal people and we're very happy. I think it helps that we don't need a lot of luxury items in our life.

Grateful for being poor?

Grateful that I'm not stuck in some keeping up with the Jones style rat race that leaves me broke and miserable.

Because you know you can't keep up.

If you win the rat race, you are still a rat in the end.