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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My husband has started making 7 figures in the last couple of years (previously at least $500k per year), it really hasn’t changed our lives other than we are padding our savings in a big way. I guess people may be shocked if they ever found out as we don’t live like he makes that much- he still drives a 10 year old car to work, we live in a relatively modest house, (value is less than he makes per year), and I’d like to do a winter  and/or break trip but he thinks airline tickets are too expensive!! It’s a little ridiculous. Not sick to your stomach envy-worthy!  Not sure how much he wants socked away before we can actually enjoy it. I really don’t feel any different or have a different lifestyle than my friends other than I don’t work anymore.[/quote]

It changes your life in that a lot of worry magically melts away. That is such a big thing, and something worthy of being jealous of.[/quote]

True, but we have felt that way for a long time because we live way below our means.  Sometimes I wonder if we are being too cheap and should just get the nice house etc.[/quote]

I would imagine it’s much easier to live way below your means when your HHI is around $500k. From where we sit at less than half of that, still paying off student loans, and a kid in daycare, to live way below our means we’d likely have to leave the DMV, or not purchased a house. We’re not scraping by, but we don’t have much of a security blanket. And with that comes a lot of worry. [/quote]

I totally get what you were are saying- but I also know what it is like to have a $160K HHI in this area (this is after finally finding a job after getting laid off for 5 months in a terrible job market), new baby, high daycare bill and  a mortgage. We still lived below our means. Luckily we did so we could afford our place on one salary during the lay-off.  Now obviously things aren’t as stressful money-wise but I don’t feel any different as a person. I’m trying to say that unless your friend is now acting snobby and better than you, you shouldn’t let money drive a wedge in your relationship. Who knows, someday you could be in the same boat. Friends are more valuable than extra zeros in a bank account.  [/quote]

Then maybe that friend should give her some of those extra zeroes.

I really don't think you get how you sound here: Ah, well. All things are good with the right attitude. We were poor-ish for a few years, too. But it all worked out for us, and you should feel zen about it, too. Money changes nothing. I still shop at GAP, so I get you.

I have a BIL (no kids, no wife) who makes 400K a year who constantly complains about repairs to his 2.5mil home. He truly does not get how this sounds to people who don't have money to put in their retirement accounts. He thinks it's exactly the same as when one of his middle-class friends complains about an expensive home repair, or college costs, or somesuch.[/quote]

Well your BIL is house poor and therefore a moron. Hes the typical outwarslybrich, inwardly poor. Hes the equivalent of hood rich.  I'm sure the house isnt where his idiotic spending stops. Probably cars, watches, trips. [/quote]

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