The best financial decision you ever made

[Anonymous]

What's the best financial decision you ever made?

[Anonymous]

Buying a house in a neighborhood most everyone considered to be too dangerous.

3 blocks from Eastern Market.

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Getting into the habit of living below my means when I first started working full time. Saving is second nature, I don't worry about money, and we've built up a nest egg that allows us to splurge when we want to.

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Going to graduate school. I went from an income of ~30K a year to 100K (mid 90s)

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Getting married, going to law school, buying a house

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Maxing our my 401k even during my hardest financial years trying to pay back six figure debt.

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Marrying my husband. I got no financial education from my backward, blue-collar high school educated parents. He works with money for a living and he does well. My worst financial decision...probably getting my Phd.

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Buying a house way less than what we could afford. We didn’t even put my husband’s salary on the mortgage application.

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Starting to invest circa 2009/2010.

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Not buying a house in 2006/2007. Pulling that money out of the stock market and putting it into a money market account. Sheer dumb luck.

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Buying a house for $550K even tho the bank approved us for $975k.

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Buying our house in 1998. It was a stretch, but sold for more than double 12 years later. Just lucky timing.

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Buying a house in Logan in 2003.

[Anonymous]

T14 law school. Got a biglaw job and a spouse with the same.

[Anonymous]

Going to graduate school at 29.

Time will tell if this is a good financial decision:
Staying at a job with a pension where I can retire with 60% of my salary at age 60. That should be around $5000 a month. The highest social security amount is $2,788 and I would have to wait until age 67. So from 60 to 67 the pension should be worth 420,000.