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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, show us your expenses and we’ll tell you how to live like a king.  Clean your own house, cut your own lawn, stop streaming multiple services, stop it with the daily Starbucks.  Bring your lunch.

What kind of car do you drive?  Do you vape?   Are you getting a new phone every year?

Stop keeping up with the Jones’s. [/quote]

Do you believe that having a cleaning lady, lawn service, streaming and ability to spend $20 bucks daily on lunch/coffee signifies luxury extravagant lifestyle if one works full time in a professional job? It's funny you think this is extravagant and get mad at DINKs in professional jobs (IMO they should be easily able to afford these things) but there is no questioning of the sky-is-the-limit accumulation of wealth by the 0.1% who cannot even invent ways to spend their vast fortunes and buy enough luxuries you cannot even fathom.  The trickle down from the uber rich class is only in form of charity and based on their personal values and opinions.

Good peasant, be happy things we used to take for granted in middle class upper layers are going extinct and we will be sifted into rich and poor happy to work most of their time and take on education debt just to pay for basic life not being able to afford a cup of coffee, happy hour drinks or a movie ticket.  
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We were higher earning DINKS in professional jobs in our 20s and early 30s.  Never hired a lawn  service or cleaning service until we had kids.  Really didn't like wasting $$$ on Starbucks and lunches out.  Took our lunches 3-4 out of 5 days.

Now we are rich.  And part of the way we got there was by budgeting and not wasting on extraneous items.  That extra $1-2K/month went into our retirement. 
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Now you are also old.  Enjoy trying to catch up on all the missed fun, outings with friends, travel.  You will never get that time you spend cleaning your starter home and mowing its lawn back, time you *could afford* to have.  You will not remember bagging these lunches on your death bed.   You can bury your money with you, or give all the millions to your kids, so that they have all the things you didn't allow yourself to have without any effort whatsoever.   But keep judging those kids who grew up without wealthy parents and want to enjoy some little fruit of their own labor.

DCUM at its finest.  Let's glorify austerity in youth (when it concerns other kids, not your own), but we also need many millions to retire because we want to live the high life as geezers.  :lol: [/quote]

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