What item could you “afford” but don’t buy?

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Anonymous wrote:a single family house they're so overpriced a run down right now inventory sucks.

great for you - you're clearly the smartest in the room, whereas some of us need an actual place to live

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Anonymous wrote:A new car.

I’ve never bought a new car. I always think that I would like one but I don’t do it.

I’m 60 and have never bought a new car either. I just don’t care about cars enough to even want a new one.

NP- Have never bought a new car, but I like nice cars. I have a Mercedes but paid 25k for it used. I treat it very well and plan to drive it forever, as I did with the previous one.

We buy new cars, but we drive them for 8-10+ years. Last one cost me $50K, sold it 13 years later for $14K. Paid $30K for another car, sold it 11 years later for 11K.
We like having new, so we don't have someone else problem (like many used cars do). And it works well if you keep cars for a long time. Financially we come out the same as someone who buys used cars---and we don't do repairs ourselves and need reliable cars for getting to jobs.

Sucker. Your hunk of metal depreciates a ton immediately after driving it off the lot. 8-10 years is also not very long to keep a car.

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Anonymous wrote:a single family house they're so overpriced a run down right now inventory sucks.

great for you - you're clearly the smartest in the room, whereas some of us need an actual place to live

You're reply doesn't make any sense unless your homeless living in a box. I do have a place to live its a rental apartment.

What a stupid A-- response.

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Anonymous wrote:a single family house they're so overpriced a run down right now inventory sucks.

great for you - you're clearly the smartest in the room, whereas some of us need an actual place to live

You're reply doesn't make any sense unless your homeless living in a box. I do have a place to live its a rental apartment.

What a stupid A-- response.

Yes, I need a SFH home for my family to live in and not a crappy apartment with a family of 4. Would I buy a new SFH now, probably not, but we thought of this years ago and got in when we were comfortable. If we hadn't back then, yes I'd still buy one because it's actually worth it.

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Anonymous wrote:Private schools and beach houses. Neither is anywhere near worth the money.

I would definitely pay for SN private school if needed but otherwise I agree. I would maybe buy a beach house if there were a nice beach under two hours away but there isn’t.

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Retire early - even though we could easily do it now, I have a highly paid flexible job that is enjoyable. It astounds me how driven people are here to never work again, even at the expense of spending money on their children. I am also surprised at how much people dislike their jobs (but that is another topic)

Holiday home - I am opposed given housing shortages but also like to holiday in lots of different places

Plastic surgery - I always thought at some stage I would get a facelift or something similar but have been put off recently by so many celebrities looking weird after major work.

I do spend on nice cars, did put my children through private school, buy designer clothes/bags, go to nice restaurants, great holidays

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A new house? IDK

Retirement? Yes we could afford for me to join my husband in retirement financially but I'm not interested

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A designer cat. My shelter cat is perhaps not as fluffy, but just as loveable and loving.

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Anonymous wrote:a single family house they're so overpriced a run down right now inventory sucks.

great for you - you're clearly the smartest in the room, whereas some of us need an actual place to live

What a moronic response lol. PP had no clue what renting means. How embarrassing!

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Anonymous wrote:I don't buy expensive sunglasses. They get lost or broken way too easily, especially with small kids.

I never understood this craze either. But my prescription sunglasses are pricey and I can’t do anything about that.

Once you try Maui Jims (including prescriptions) you won't go back to anything else. They are such high quality lenses and last forever (but I don't typically break mine or loose them, I'm used to having prescriptions so any sunglasses are too valuable to "loose")

It's lose, you know.

I find people like you very annoying and unlikable. And I have a graduate degree in English.

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Anonymous wrote:A new car.

I’ve never bought a new car. I always think that I would like one but I don’t do it.

I’m 60 and have never bought a new car either. I just don’t care about cars enough to even want a new one.

NP- Have never bought a new car, but I like nice cars. I have a Mercedes but paid 25k for it used. I treat it very well and plan to drive it forever, as I did with the previous one.

We buy new cars, but we drive them for 8-10+ years. Last one cost me $50K, sold it 13 years later for $14K. Paid $30K for another car, sold it 11 years later for 11K.
We like having new, so we don't have someone else problem (like many used cars do). And it works well if you keep cars for a long time. Financially we come out the same as someone who buys used cars---and we don't do repairs ourselves and need reliable cars for getting to jobs.

Sucker. Your hunk of metal depreciates a ton immediately after driving it off the lot. 8-10 years is also not very long to keep a car.

Relatively speaking, it is. I've had my car for 9 years and DH has had his for about 20 now, but most people get a new car far before the 8 year mark.

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We could afford a second home. We just haven't found the right one. Been looking for three years.

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Anonymous wrote:Retire early - even though we could easily do it now, I have a highly paid flexible job that is enjoyable. It astounds me how driven people are here to never work again, even at the expense of spending money on their children. I am also surprised at how much people dislike their jobs (but that is another topic)

Holiday home - I am opposed given housing shortages but also like to holiday in lots of different places

Plastic surgery - I always thought at some stage I would get a facelift or something similar but have been put off recently by so many celebrities looking weird after major work.

I do spend on nice cars, did put my children through private school, buy designer clothes/bags, go to nice restaurants, great holidays

Same.

I actually asked a doctor about this at an injectables consult recently, and she told me that most of those celebrities (or anyone with a %$#@ed up looking face thanks to procedures), if not all, do not just come out looking weird/terrible after one surgery. They are chasing something, and end up getting multiple surgeries, and unfortunately find doctors to do it. So it is less likely to be one surgery gone wrong and more likely to be the compounded effects of too many procedures.

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Anonymous wrote:a Hinckley

It's dumb now but I will 100% buy once I retire

They are gorgeous.

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Anonymous wrote:Boob job with implants. I've worked in plastic surgery adjacent field and absolutely not, no.

Off topic, but if you had a mastectomy, would you have the same answer?