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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, what are you hoarding your money for?  Like, to what end? It's fine if you don't want to own a four bedroom house or join a country club or buy a Mercedes. But you don't travel at all, try new restaurants, go to museums, take random classes at a local Y like wine-tasting or cooking or foreign language, take guided tours, take sailing or kayaking lessons, etc.

You said you'll donate your money to nieces and nephews, but it's okay to spend on yourself too.

I am concerned you don't really have anything you can talk with people about. Most people working in a law firm don't play video games. They may complain about their KIDS playing them too much.

You patch your clothes to the point it sounds like if someone else wore those clothes and ran into a BigLaw Partner at say, the grocery store, they'd be embarrassed. Maybe you don't possess that embarrassment gene, but that's the kind of thing that when the partners are about to vote on whether to make you partner, they'd say you're not a culture fit. You're not giving anything out that people can connect with you on. [/quote]

I take slight offense to the word "hoard" here, but I'm 99% sure this was not meant in an insulting manner (if it was, ouch). For the most part, I just like seeing "number go up" as in my amount of savings increasing. Security blanket of sorts. My parents were not/are not poor and we had a middle class upbringing, so really, again, I just like saving money. I will spend on myself on occasion, but it's 99.99% of the time to replace something that has worn out and can not be repaired. For example, I had 7 pairs of Lululemon shorts, that I repaired as I would tend to split the seams from my gym gains. After repairing them for the 3rd time I gave them away and bought 7 new pairs (in different colors than the original set) to replace them.

I feel like the tv show/movie watching generates a fair amount of conversation topics. on the video game front, all of the other associates in my group (of which there are 5 of us) all play video games and play them with each other at times, but I don't think the partners do (at least they haven't mentioned it if they do).

50/50 on the patched clothes point, I wouldn't be embarrassed for a partner to see a patch on the back pocket of some jeans or pants but maybe some other people would.[/quote]

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