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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You cant live VERY well on VERY little.
You can live decently on little but lets not exaggerate.[/quote]

I do live very well on very little. Income is a bit less than $100,000. We are retired. We own a 4 bdrm house in an upper middle class neighborhood in another part of the country. I have a good sense of design, so the house is expertly decorated. We have a 3 bdrm apt in Chevy Chase. We commute back and forth between the 2 homes. We have a reverse mortgage on the house, and dh is a 100% disabled vet, so we pay no property taxes. We drive 2 luxury cars. I'm culinary school trained, so I cook and bake almost everything from scratch. I do my own hair manis and pedis. We shop at the commissary and PX, this lowers our purchases about 30%. Several times a month we do Whole Foods takeout. I am presently taking 4 college classes for free through the Va, and we do not pay for health insurance. I buy designer purses such as Chloe, Gucci and Ferragamo on EBay or Fashionphile, greatly discounted. I like expensive face creams such as La Mer and LifeCell. Nice perfumes such as Chanel No 5 and Burbeery Brit. I get these on EBay. I am very frugal.

I purchased my house while single years ago. I left the DC area, because I could not afford the high prices. I settled in a lower cost area where I could afford to buy. Shortly after, I married my first dh. Five years after he passed away, I married my second dh. But even with my first dh, we were able to live well on very little. I was a corporate traveler, and so was my late husband. We racked up a lot of airline and hotel points, and were able to vacation in places like Hawaii for free. I don't travel as much now, because my present dh is on dialysis.

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How much do you soend on travel?
Sorry but cooking, doing your own mani and pedis sounds crappy.[/quote]

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