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[quote=Anonymous]DH and I are you and my brother and his wife are your SIL. For a long time I felt jealous of what they have - okay, sometimes I still am. Their money (gained mostly through hard work, but some through SIL’s inheritance) means they have a beautiful house, can travel, etc. But one day my brother and I were talking and he said “we really admire you and the decisions you’ve made.” He was talking about how we approach money (we work to live, and calibrate our hours to pay all our bills while having plenty of time for kids and hobbies). And I realized that the admiration goes both ways. There are trade offs for both of our choices. I try to remember that we have many things they don’t (time, peace, easy-going-ness) and they have things we don’t. You can’t have everything in life, you just make choices about what is most important. When it comes down to it, time and peace are more important to me than excellence or achievement, especially of material things. I wouldn’t want to change those values, even if I would like a nice house![/quote]

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