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Anonymous wrote:Our 2013 HHI was $1.3 million and we have a net worth reaching $10m. Well, I really should say DH income was $1.3 as I am a SAHM.

Retirement and college are fully funded. My parents are saving for DC's college, too as they have no idea how much our net worth is. I tell them I appreciate their kindness but that it is also not necessary...but they still put in money at X-mas and b-days.

We live in a 2800 sq.ft sfh and have two local rental condos. We live near good schools so our kids go to public school. We have a twice a month house cleaner.

I drive a 9 year old Hybrid, DH a 2 year old large SUV.

We vacation every two years in Hawaii and rent someone's Marriott 1 bdrm. timeshare usually for around $1500. We also vacation in the very exotic locations of FL, NY, VT and stay with family. We own a RV/trailer and camp in the summer almost every other weekend with another family.

Kids take music and swim lessons, dance, sports and just started horseback riding once a week. We belong to a pretty high end gym/club but DH's company pays for the family membership.

Our DC look forward to participating in our 2x yearly neighborhood garage sale. They are responsible for going through their stuff to decide what to sell. They make signs, price the stuff, set it all out and collect the money. They also do a lemonade stand with snacks to raise money for the animal shelter (we've owned two dogs - both were rescue dogs). 100% of the lemonade stand goes to the shelter, 10% of their "stuff" sales goes to another charity of their choice, 40% to the bank and 40% as spending money.

DC wear clothes from Mini Boden/JohnnieB, Gap, Old Navy, Macy's but I bargain shop and always shop sales. DH lives in Burberry polo shirts I buy on sale during Nordstrom Men's sale. I wear mall stores mid-range clothing - but again - always on sale.

We are a big supporter of education and make significant donations to education and literacy programs of all kinds, our university and a foreign exchange program DH participated in when he was a teenager.

What's our vice??? - high end steak houses and dive-diners! We don't think twice about a weekly family dinner at BLT, Morton's, Capital Grille etc...

Am I unapologetically rich? Yes - but then again no one knows that we are so I have no one to apologize to!

Troll post and very sanctimonious.

Anonymous wrote:Our 2013 HHI was $1.3 million and we have a net worth reaching $10m. Well, I really should say DH income was $1.3 as I am a SAHM.

Retirement and college are fully funded. My parents are saving for DC's college, too as they have no idea how much our net worth is. I tell them I appreciate their kindness but that it is also not necessary...but they still put in money at X-mas and b-days.

We live in a 2800 sq.ft sfh and have two local rental condos. We live near good schools so our kids go to public school. We have a twice a month house cleaner.

I drive a 9 year old Hybrid, DH a 2 year old large SUV.

We vacation every two years in Hawaii and rent someone's Marriott 1 bdrm. timeshare usually for around $1500. We also vacation in the very exotic locations of FL, NY, VT and stay with family. We own a RV/trailer and camp in the summer almost every other weekend with another family.

Kids take music and swim lessons, dance, sports and just started horseback riding once a week. We belong to a pretty high end gym/club but DH's company pays for the family membership.

Our DC look forward to participating in our 2x yearly neighborhood garage sale. They are responsible for going through their stuff to decide what to sell. They make signs, price the stuff, set it all out and collect the money. They also do a lemonade stand with snacks to raise money for the animal shelter (we've owned two dogs - both were rescue dogs). 100% of the lemonade stand goes to the shelter, 10% of their "stuff" sales goes to another charity of their choice, 40% to the bank and 40% as spending money.

DC wear clothes from Mini Boden/JohnnieB, Gap, Old Navy, Macy's but I bargain shop and always shop sales. DH lives in Burberry polo shirts I buy on sale during Nordstrom Men's sale. I wear mall stores mid-range clothing - but again - always on sale.

We are a big supporter of education and make significant donations to education and literacy programs of all kinds, our university and a foreign exchange program DH participated in when he was a teenager.

What's our vice??? - high end steak houses and dive-diners! We don't think twice about a weekly family dinner at BLT, Morton's, Capital Grille etc...

Am I unapologetically rich? Yes - but then again no one knows that we are so I have no one to apologize to!

Anonymous wrote:Me!

My HHI is 90K.

I'm rich!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our 2013 HHI was $1.3 million and we have a net worth reaching $10m. Well, I really should say DH income was $1.3 as I am a SAHM.

Retirement and college are fully funded. My parents are saving for DC's college, too as they have no idea how much our net worth is. I tell them I appreciate their kindness but that it is also not necessary...but they still put in money at X-mas and b-days.

We live in a 2800 sq.ft sfh and have two local rental condos. We live near good schools so our kids go to public school. We have a twice a month house cleaner.

I drive a 9 year old Hybrid, DH a 2 year old large SUV.

We vacation every two years in Hawaii and rent someone's Marriott 1 bdrm. timeshare usually for around $1500. We also vacation in the very exotic locations of FL, NY, VT and stay with family. We own a RV/trailer and camp in the summer almost every other weekend with another family.

Kids take music and swim lessons, dance, sports and just started horseback riding once a week. We belong to a pretty high end gym/club but DH's company pays for the family membership.

Our DC look forward to participating in our 2x yearly neighborhood garage sale. They are responsible for going through their stuff to decide what to sell. They make signs, price the stuff, set it all out and collect the money. They also do a lemonade stand with snacks to raise money for the animal shelter (we've owned two dogs - both were rescue dogs). 100% of the lemonade stand goes to the shelter, 10% of their "stuff" sales goes to another charity of their choice, 40% to the bank and 40% as spending money.

DC wear clothes from Mini Boden/JohnnieB, Gap, Old Navy, Macy's but I bargain shop and always shop sales. DH lives in Burberry polo shirts I buy on sale during Nordstrom Men's sale. I wear mall stores mid-range clothing - but again - always on sale.

We are a big supporter of education and make significant donations to education and literacy programs of all kinds, our university and a foreign exchange program DH participated in when he was a teenager.

What's our vice??? - high end steak houses and dive-diners! We don't think twice about a weekly family dinner at BLT, Morton's, Capital Grille etc...

Am I unapologetically rich? Yes - but then again no one knows that we are so I have no one to apologize to!

You don't live the way I would live with that income but what I like about you is that you don't seem smudge or judgmental at all - unlike other people. You seem very live and let live.

How would you live? higher end vacations??? higher quality furniture?? just more stuff??? move to high HHI neighborhood? charity work???

Nevermind, obviously not so live and let live.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our 2013 HHI was $1.3 million and we have a net worth reaching $10m. Well, I really should say DH income was $1.3 as I am a SAHM.

Retirement and college are fully funded. My parents are saving for DC's college, too as they have no idea how much our net worth is. I tell them I appreciate their kindness but that it is also not necessary...but they still put in money at X-mas and b-days.

We live in a 2800 sq.ft sfh and have two local rental condos. We live near good schools so our kids go to public school. We have a twice a month house cleaner.

I drive a 9 year old Hybrid, DH a 2 year old large SUV.

We vacation every two years in Hawaii and rent someone's Marriott 1 bdrm. timeshare usually for around $1500. We also vacation in the very exotic locations of FL, NY, VT and stay with family. We own a RV/trailer and camp in the summer almost every other weekend with another family.

Kids take music and swim lessons, dance, sports and just started horseback riding once a week. We belong to a pretty high end gym/club but DH's company pays for the family membership.

Our DC look forward to participating in our 2x yearly neighborhood garage sale. They are responsible for going through their stuff to decide what to sell. They make signs, price the stuff, set it all out and collect the money. They also do a lemonade stand with snacks to raise money for the animal shelter (we've owned two dogs - both were rescue dogs). 100% of the lemonade stand goes to the shelter, 10% of their "stuff" sales goes to another charity of their choice, 40% to the bank and 40% as spending money.

DC wear clothes from Mini Boden/JohnnieB, Gap, Old Navy, Macy's but I bargain shop and always shop sales. DH lives in Burberry polo shirts I buy on sale during Nordstrom Men's sale. I wear mall stores mid-range clothing - but again - always on sale.

We are a big supporter of education and make significant donations to education and literacy programs of all kinds, our university and a foreign exchange program DH participated in when he was a teenager.

What's our vice??? - high end steak houses and dive-diners! We don't think twice about a weekly family dinner at BLT, Morton's, Capital Grille etc...

Am I unapologetically rich? Yes - but then again no one knows that we are so I have no one to apologize to!

You don't live the way I would live with that income but what I like about you is that you don't seem smudge or judgmental at all - unlike other people. You seem very live and let live.

How would you live? higher end vacations??? higher quality furniture?? just more stuff??? move to high HHI neighborhood? charity work???

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our 2013 HHI was $1.3 million and we have a net worth reaching $10m. Well, I really should say DH income was $1.3 as I am a SAHM.

Retirement and college are fully funded. My parents are saving for DC's college, too as they have no idea how much our net worth is. I tell them I appreciate their kindness but that it is also not necessary...but they still put in money at X-mas and b-days.

We live in a 2800 sq.ft sfh and have two local rental condos. We live near good schools so our kids go to public school. We have a twice a month house cleaner.

I drive a 9 year old Hybrid, DH a 2 year old large SUV.

We vacation every two years in Hawaii and rent someone's Marriott 1 bdrm. timeshare usually for around $1500. We also vacation in the very exotic locations of FL, NY, VT and stay with family. We own a RV/trailer and camp in the summer almost every other weekend with another family.

Kids take music and swim lessons, dance, sports and just started horseback riding once a week. We belong to a pretty high end gym/club but DH's company pays for the family membership.

Our DC look forward to participating in our 2x yearly neighborhood garage sale. They are responsible for going through their stuff to decide what to sell. They make signs, price the stuff, set it all out and collect the money. They also do a lemonade stand with snacks to raise money for the animal shelter (we've owned two dogs - both were rescue dogs). 100% of the lemonade stand goes to the shelter, 10% of their "stuff" sales goes to another charity of their choice, 40% to the bank and 40% as spending money.

DC wear clothes from Mini Boden/JohnnieB, Gap, Old Navy, Macy's but I bargain shop and always shop sales. DH lives in Burberry polo shirts I buy on sale during Nordstrom Men's sale. I wear mall stores mid-range clothing - but again - always on sale.

We are a big supporter of education and make significant donations to education and literacy programs of all kinds, our university and a foreign exchange program DH participated in when he was a teenager.

What's our vice??? - high end steak houses and dive-diners! We don't think twice about a weekly family dinner at BLT, Morton's, Capital Grille etc...

Am I unapologetically rich? Yes - but then again no one knows that we are so I have no one to apologize to!

You don't live the way I would live with that income but what I like about you is that you don't seem smudge or judgmental at all - unlike other people. You seem very live and let live.

Anonymous wrote:Our 2013 HHI was $1.3 million and we have a net worth reaching $10m. Well, I really should say DH income was $1.3 as I am a SAHM.

Retirement and college are fully funded. My parents are saving for DC's college, too as they have no idea how much our net worth is. I tell them I appreciate their kindness but that it is also not necessary...but they still put in money at X-mas and b-days.

We live in a 2800 sq.ft sfh and have two local rental condos. We live near good schools so our kids go to public school. We have a twice a month house cleaner.

I drive a 9 year old Hybrid, DH a 2 year old large SUV.

We vacation every two years in Hawaii and rent someone's Marriott 1 bdrm. timeshare usually for around $1500. We also vacation in the very exotic locations of FL, NY, VT and stay with family. We own a RV/trailer and camp in the summer almost every other weekend with another family.

Kids take music and swim lessons, dance, sports and just started horseback riding once a week. We belong to a pretty high end gym/club but DH's company pays for the family membership.

Our DC look forward to participating in our 2x yearly neighborhood garage sale. They are responsible for going through their stuff to decide what to sell. They make signs, price the stuff, set it all out and collect the money. They also do a lemonade stand with snacks to raise money for the animal shelter (we've owned two dogs - both were rescue dogs). 100% of the lemonade stand goes to the shelter, 10% of their "stuff" sales goes to another charity of their choice, 40% to the bank and 40% as spending money.

DC wear clothes from Mini Boden/JohnnieB, Gap, Old Navy, Macy's but I bargain shop and always shop sales. DH lives in Burberry polo shirts I buy on sale during Nordstrom Men's sale. I wear mall stores mid-range clothing - but again - always on sale.

We are a big supporter of education and make significant donations to education and literacy programs of all kinds, our university and a foreign exchange program DH participated in when he was a teenager.

What's our vice??? - high end steak houses and dive-diners! We don't think twice about a weekly family dinner at BLT, Morton's, Capital Grille etc...

Am I unapologetically rich? Yes - but then again no one knows that we are so I have no one to apologize to!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sure, we have a home in Surfside Beach, SC, and hope to retire there the moment our last graduates high school. As for the Cariibbean, we tend to keep going back to the Bahamas, St Lucia, St. Martin or Aruba. They work for us and are family friendly. We rarely travel to Europe or the UAE as I will travel to those places for work. Again, the Caribbean works for our family so we keep with what works for everyone in our family.

Thanks. We're looking around Kiawah but don't want feel like one of the poors when we get there (our financial picture is about half yours; DH could retire in 5 yrs @55 but we'd still have the 2 youngest in the house so high schools are still and issue).

Anonymous wrote:OP again, I forgot to mention that I do not look at our SC home as an investment - though it is one. We do not invest in any other real estate other than our main residence. I honestly do not want the hassle. We have been approached many times. Our money is divided up and set aside (for education we figured at least 6 years of higher education for each child would be in the 750k range so have that set aside), the usual stocks, bonds, market, etc and plenty in savings. I am risk adverse and not taking full advantage of the money and are perfectly fine with that. Future splurges will be fun things that we know are bucket list items but again we have carefully set aside.

Anonymous wrote:Sure, we have a home in Surfside Beach, SC, and hope to retire there the moment our last graduates high school. As for the Cariibbean, we tend to keep going back to the Bahamas, St Lucia, St. Martin or Aruba. They work for us and are family friendly. We rarely travel to Europe or the UAE as I will travel to those places for work. Again, the Caribbean works for our family so we keep with what works for everyone in our family.

Anonymous wrote:Hello all,

Keeping it simple - 2013 income just over 4mm, net with just over 14mm, hard work and good luck have gotten us here. 2 school age children with undergrad and grad school money set aside, $500,000 HOME in PWC that is in a wonderful neighborhood with a lot of families, white picket fences and a real sense of community. Splurges? Wife has her dream Mercedes, we have a suite at the MCI Center and 3 week long trips to the carribean, NYC and our beach house in SC. When we travel we fly first class and upgrade to the more expensive accomodations. 5% of income goes to church - 5% goes to a couple of charities that are important to us. Keeping a level head and not spoiling are kids (too much) is difficult at times but always remembering where you came from so that you can always remember to appreciate what we have. Oh and shoes...DW loves her shoes...and I do not mind as long as they are high heels and she wears them to bed.