To NotMyFault: I scroll up and down this thread and do not see what prompted your post.I trust that people in this group can find humor at my expense.
I believe NMF is referring to a series of posts that began with this. If he believes the posts were at his expense rather than simply a good natured attempt at a laugh, he probably needs to lather up with some skin toughener if he plans on hanging around.To NotMyFault: I scroll up and down this thread and do not see what prompted your post.
But having been here a while, I know that there are people who are pretty quick to poke fun at your mistyping or other errors.
If this happens to you, just know that "it's not your fault". Usually, it's nothing personal. Just laugh along, and patiently wait for your turn to pay back.
Just laugh along, and patiently wait for your turn to pay back, or to pay forward.
Why do you care whether they know? Just curious.
I honestly don't care how much $ my considerably older siblings have, as long as their needs are met. I imagine they feel the same about me.
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We get the opposite from one friend. We've been retired for 4 years and don't get SS, and she is absolutely mystified that we can afford our lifestyle. I tell her it's magic.
Hi,
I'm happy to have found this forum where being responsible with money is appreciated and celebrated. As I've moved closer to FI I've started to feel like it needs to be kept very quiet and not shared with people. Family and friends are either jealous or start taking advantage of you. Co-workers who are busy talking about their expensive cars, houses and vacations seem like they would have some contempt as well. Even worse, I've heard comments made about people who are believed to be in good shape financially as being at the bottom of the list for promotions and bonuses with the explanation that they don't need the money. And these were spoken by the people making those decisions (who also complain about not having enough $$).
So it seems like people like us need to live in the FI closet and/or be subject to penalties.
What a great observation. This applies to me as well, thanks, Ha.Interesting thread. I think it is very freeing, though at times difficult, to just realize that there are people smarter, richer, bigger, healthier, tougher, better looking, younger, more socially adapted and pretty much superior to me in any dimension that one could name.
As long as I am getting most of what I need, and some of what I want, I hope to be satisfied.
Ha
........ Glad to have this forum's cloak of anonymity to share within.
What strikes me as interesting with friends and family with money is there seems to be no middle ground in their reactions when you do well. People seem to be genuinely congragulatory or very jealous. Not sure it even falls along the lines of how they are doing financially.
I recently bought a classic sports car. (Paid cash of course and it is unlikely to ever depreciate and fairly likely to increase in value).
The reactions were either very positive or quite negative ("must be nice", "people buy cars like that because they think they are better than everyone else", etc).
People funny.
Well, at one point you were dead. But then you came forth.I was different.
In short, I never felt any envy, and never had to really explain anything to anybody.