Most of mine have been taken, but I'll say additional responsibility at work or higher titles. I've reached a stage where I'm content with my work life balance and compensation and I just want to carry on with regular cost of living raises. Unfortunately, that's frowned upon and I'm supposed to keep striving for more

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:An engagement ring and a wedding. I've told my SO that he is NOT to get me an engagement ring and that if he does, it means he doesn't know me and we need to go our separate ways.

+100

You're the first person I've heard express this--I thought I was the only one!

Nope. I don't have an engagement ring (I'm not the PP). First husband let his sister convince him I didn't mean it. Idiot. Second husband believed me. Married 25 yrs.

A second home. It's a lot of work and a lot of money.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Agree with many of these - kids, expensive or luxury bags/shoes/cars/etc.

I honestly don't care for luxury anything in terms of "stuff" or material things. I'd rather have a nice experience or trip.

Sorry but kids are nothing like these other items. They are actually the opposite.

Sorry but I don't think you understand the question. Kids are something many people want/desire, but are not something I desire/want any more than I desire a porche.

Kids are the ultimate experience, not a “luxury item”. Strange that the pp lumped them together.

NP. This has to be a truth for everybody, across the board, no exceptions tolerated/ Is this just because you declared it?

Anonymous wrote:Premarital sex

This is the only one where I'll say the poster is absolutely misguided 🤣🤣

Travel. It's miserable to travel now, I would rather use my money in other ways.

A hot tub.

Anonymous wrote:I’ll go first - going to st barths. It seems like a worse island than the others but just more expensive and like Miami Beach?

A single family house in a “desirable” suburban neighborhood. Or even semi-suburban like CCMD. Tried it. Hate it. Give me multi-family housing in a real city any day.

Anonymous wrote:Disney cruise
Huge freestanding tub
Pet dog

Add to this, Disney World.

I've been, both with kids and without, last time in 2022. It was awful, way too crowded now and ridiculously expensive. I will never go back. I don't get people who want to make that their vacation every year.

More than two kids.

Anonymous wrote:A boat- so expensive. So many intoxicated boaters.

A vacation home - would rather go different places than return to same place over and over.

A pool- too much work, liability.

A vacation home is an investment especially if you rent out.

expensive skincare, designer purses

A boat- so expensive. So many intoxicated boaters.

A vacation home - would rather go different places than return to same place over and over.

A pool- too much work, liability.

Sushi, designer anything at all, a house (condos for life!), fancy restaurants.

Anonymous wrote:Expensive cars with all the updates. Or having more than one car per person.

+1

I’ll add: a giant house, a prestigious high paying career, an overflowing closet of clothes.