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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a mutual friend who lives like this, but on a smaller scale (likely makes far less than OP's friends).  I was at his house once and he was showing off his new pool.  Everything was top of the line.  He told me that he'd looked and noticed they had something like $40k in savings and he needed to find something to spend it on.  That is how this idiot's mind works.  He is in sales and says that he isn't worried about saving money, because he can always make more. [/quote]

I think you off base here.  Close friends do share details and a certain frankness at times as your friend did with his pool....I actually find it refreshing that he told you what it cost and his personal financial situation.  Your friend is just proud of his purchase and wanted to share that with you.  I think you are the one with the problem with envy, jealousy, etc.  Grow up.[/quote]

I am not jealous of the fact that someone I know was surprised to discover he had an extra $40k lying around and his reaction was to find something to spend it on.  A close friend of mine works with this guy, and he saves nothing in a retirement account, and from what I can tell doesn't save anything in non-retirement accounts.  This is objectively stupid behavior.  I judge him; I am not jealous of him.  I make a lot more than him and could drive an Infiniti or Escalade or whatever the shit he drives, and put a pool in, etc.

For the record, he is a nice guy but we are not close friends.  So he was definitely announcing to a very casual acquaintance that he spent every last spare dollar he had (again, forty thousand of them) on a pool. [/quote]

You sound really upset. [/quote]

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