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[quote=Anonymous][quote].....OP, collectively, you want to spend a lot of money and live like someone in this area who makes a lot more money than you do. So you don’t have to,live like a hermit, but you can’t have a full cart at Whole Foods, and go to school, and travel three times a year internationally, and get a whole house of new expensive furniture all at the same time.[/quote]

This is the way I look at it, too.  Perhaps if you demonstrated an ability to work with what you've got and improve it, you'd get more traction with your DH.  Definitely see a financial planner to ensure you at least agree on some common goals - like retirement.

Until I was 35, the only 'new' furniture we had in our house was the mattress we slept on.  Everything in our home was hand-me-down or purchased used.  When I was 35, we bought a new couch to replace my grandmother's couch from the 70s (it had a horrid turquoise plaid material which I covered with a couch cover I had painted/dyed).  Even now, my boys (MS/HS) are sleeping in the bunk beds my brother and I slept in (we shared a room) and my DD is sleeping in a loft bed we bought off Craigslist and repainted.  We have a lot of art but not 'conventional' works.  They are inherited pieces, made by me or the kids or from yard sales.  I'm now in my 50s and am not in the least ashamed of what we have in our home - neither are my DH or my teenagers.

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