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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You all should go check out the relationship thread where a woman is being excoriated for not spending money on a vacation w/ friends.  She's prioritizing her mortgage, childcare, and family ahead of an expensive island vacation and people are reaming her.

People just love to sling stones OP.  You won't win - just go home and sleep well knowing you're spared of the financial nightmares plaguing others.[/quote]
OP here.....just catching up all these posts.

Thanks for your encouraging remarks. I'm really perplexed as to how many people are giving me a hard time. I read somewhere that half the people in this country don't even have $25,000 by the time they're in their 50s. If people would put more away for retirement (and skip the island vacation, as you mention), we wouldn't have a disaster waiting to happen. What do people do when they retire and don't even have $25,000 saved? (But that's another topic altogether.)[/quote]

Here's why people are giving you a hard time.  From your initial post:

[i]WTF is all this crap about $300k being middle class and $80k being poor? I (single, no kids) live very comfortably on less than $70k (net). [/i]

This is a parenting site.  We are parents.  We are parents who live in the DC metro area, and area with a high COL.  It's hard to support a family in this area on $80k around here.   To top it off, you quote gross numbers in your "WTF" question, but talk about your net income of $70k instead of your mid-90's gross.   You came bitching at us - that's why you're getting a hard time. [/quote]

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