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Reviving this to say....

"no debt (parents paid for my undergraduate education at a small, cheap state university, and then I went to a third tier law school at around 90% scholarship and my grandparents chipping in for the rest + living expenses)."

STFU.[/quote]

I have to agree. You know why I never went to graduate school? I had to work and pay rent. And my student loans which... actually mostly I didn't pay them. Oops. Bad call, but it was really a choice of, "do I pay my rent, or my loans?"

I married a lawyer and now we have his student loans--about 800/month--until the end of time. We are very fortunate, but I don't scrimp and save anymore because frankly, after twenty years of doing so I have decided that life is too damn short and precious to be entirely focused on saving, saving saving for the future you can't predict. You know the problem with savings? A lay off and cobra eats them. The market fluctuates and your 401K is down 30%. It's all a shell game. If you enjoy living carefully, go for it. But realize that at some point, roommates get really fucking old, and a diet of lentils and pasta and kale even more so. [/quote]

Or worse: you don't buy yourself new clothes for 10 years to save money for your children, then you die of cancer young and the second wife gets all the money, so you sacrificed for no reason at all.[/quote]

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