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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Reading this board sometimes makes me realize how frugal my husband is. Together we make around 700-800k. Yet we still live in our starter house, still drive regular cars, do not send our kids to private school, do not have any household help, have never flown anything above coach, don’t eat out at fancy restaurants, etc. I feel guilty buying myself nice things (like a $200 sweater).

I admit that some of this is me (I have no interest in cars or restaurants) but I’d definitely like to travel more. He always wants to go to the same places though, which I find boring after a while. I would be interested in buying a vacation house depending on where it was but he says it is too much work to maintain.

Even small things like time savers - I asked him if we could hire someone to paint the living room and he said he’d do it himself because otherwise it would be 1k to hire out. Another example is that our family skis. I’d like to hire a private instructor to take the kids so DH and I could do our own thing for the day and challenge ourselves/go fast instead of the constant start/stop of skiing with kids. It would be about $1k though and looks at me like I’m nuts.

Is this normal behavior and this board is just spendy? I feel like I don’t know what is a lot of money anymore. He thinks $1k is a lot of money to spend on painting a room or giving ourselves a fun day on our own on vacation. Whereas I feel like we can afford it? [/quote]

I haven't read all the replies but I think you and DH should have a talk about this. You need to communicate that a little more vacation and home maintenance money would make you happier. And then the two of you set aside $2k or so extra for the house and the cost of one nice trip and a ski instructor per year. These are modest asks given your HHI.[/quote]

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