Anonymous wrote:Again???! Why is there always a question like this every week?? I don't understand the obsession with comparing your money/ financial situation to anonymous posters.

Because they need to pump their nads and give themselves a big reach around... Or they simply have nothing better to do...

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Anonymous wrote:Again???! Why is there always a question like this every week?? I don't understand the obsession with comparing your money/ financial situation to anonymous posters.

Seriously. But I am curious what the early thirties posters do for a living that they are worth millions. I myself am 41 and have almost no net worth. Yeah me!! Why the hell do I open these posts....

You open them because you might get something out of them though seemingly irrelevant.

Anonymous wrote:I am of the poors. Both hubby and I didn't inherit squat. We earned it the hard way, worked for it.

Net worth 1.2 million, both 50, NO DEBT.

Congrats on your success.
Not sure why you need to cut down those who inherit. It wasn't like it was my choice. I'd kill to have my parents back. And DH and I both work, as well.
- 6 mil pp

Anonymous wrote:Net worth alone is meaningless. How much of this is yours and how much was inherited/trust fund.

35 year old w 6 mil here. Most inherited from parents who died young. How is it not mine ? My name is on the accounts.

Lucky in some ways, not so much in others.

I am of the poors. Both hubby and I didn't inherit squat. We earned it the hard way, worked for it.

Net worth 1.2 million, both 50, NO DEBT.

Anonymous wrote:Of our 1.8million we earned 1 million ourselves. The other is from a trust.

Yeah, I guess that's a fair point. If I'd started with an $800,000 trust, I suppose my net with actually would have been similar at that age.

It's not like this same question hasn't been posted at least a thousand times on this forum.
So why again?

me 42, dh 45. around 3.5m.

Of our 1.8million we earned 1 million ourselves. The other is from a trust.

No, I know DCUM has a fairly wealthy readership and that the wealthy people are more likely to post. Most of these numbers seem reasonable to me. I'm just skeptical of people in their early 30s claiming their net worth is in the millions. A 33 year old with a $2 million net worth has a net worth 240 times the average for her age. Even an extremely high income won't get you there if you have any debt. I feel like some people are either lying or forgetting to subtract their debt from their assets.

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Anonymous wrote:But I am curious what the early thirties posters do for a living that they are worth millions. I myself am 41 and have almost no net worth. Yeah me!! Why the hell do I open these posts....

I believe they mostly lie for a living.

I assume that you didn't open this post expecting to see that most people on DCUM are broke, did you?

Um, yeah

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Anonymous wrote:But I am curious what the early thirties posters do for a living that they are worth millions. I myself am 41 and have almost no net worth. Yeah me!! Why the hell do I open these posts....

I believe they mostly lie for a living.

I assume that you didn't open this post expecting to see that most people on DCUM are broke, did you?

Anonymous wrote:Net worth alone is meaningless. How much of this is yours and how much was inherited/trust fund.

Actually, inherited/trust fund equals YOURS. So it's not meaningless.

Anonymous wrote:But I am curious what the early thirties posters do for a living that they are worth millions. I myself am 41 and have almost no net worth. Yeah me!! Why the hell do I open these posts....

I believe they mostly lie for a living.

Net worth alone is meaningless. How much of this is yours and how much was inherited/trust fund.