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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seems unhealthy, but it's not really abnormal for a lot of people to have a difficult time transitioning to drawing down their investments. Lots of people become millionaires by being thrifty, and once you refuse to waste any money whatsoever, it just becomes a part of who you are. This is an extreme case though lol[/quote]

This may be part of it but I think there are also aspects of "it's never enough" and "nobody wants to admit they're rich."

Case in point: my mom will talk about how they budget super carefully to live on my dad's "modest pension" (her words; he retired with an excellent pension in his late 50s). She'll complain about property taxes and vote down the school budget because she doesn't get to "line item veto" the items she considers a waste of money, after spending my childhood complaining about selfish old people voting down the school budget. She'll worry when my dad does discretionary spending. I think she really wants to be seen as still scrappy and making do with very little.

I recently found out they're not touching their very healthy 401ks AT ALL. So they really don't have to worry about money. But there is also talk about continuing to build wealth and maximize gains.

As someone much earlier in life worrying about even staying employed through the next year, much less the next decades, I appreciate that my parents are very very secure,  but I also find the "we have some much but we're still worried" posture maddening. [/quote]

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