SecondCor521
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I just wanted to express some frustration here and ask if anyone sees any creative ideas to help address my situation that I am about to -- without any good justification -- whine about.
Basically, I'm burned out on FIRE. (Pun not intended.)
I'm doing all the "right" (or so I thought) things for FIRE, but I've been doing them so long and to such a great degree that I'm tired of doing them. I'm on a track now to FI by about age 45, but that is a consequence of spending very little and saving very much. Last year I saved over 50% of my gross income.
The conundrum is this: I'm tired of scrimping and saving and working and earning. I just want to relax a little, enjoy life a little. But I know that if I do that, my FIRE date gets pushed out. The more I relax and enjoy life, the more that date gets pushed out; in fact, because of the 25x rule and the rest of the math, my FIRE date is quite sensitive to my spending -- perhaps a 10% increase in spending would result in a year being added to my FIRE date.
Also, I spent about twice what I used to spend on Christmas, and I didn't get twice the enjoyment out of it. So I am worried that if I increase my spending rate now, the miniscule increase in enjoyment I might get would be more than offset by the dismay at watching my FIRE date leap into the future.
Maybe its just the winter blahs and I just need more vitamin D.
Thanks for reading.
2Cor521
Basically, I'm burned out on FIRE. (Pun not intended.)
I'm doing all the "right" (or so I thought) things for FIRE, but I've been doing them so long and to such a great degree that I'm tired of doing them. I'm on a track now to FI by about age 45, but that is a consequence of spending very little and saving very much. Last year I saved over 50% of my gross income.
The conundrum is this: I'm tired of scrimping and saving and working and earning. I just want to relax a little, enjoy life a little. But I know that if I do that, my FIRE date gets pushed out. The more I relax and enjoy life, the more that date gets pushed out; in fact, because of the 25x rule and the rest of the math, my FIRE date is quite sensitive to my spending -- perhaps a 10% increase in spending would result in a year being added to my FIRE date.
Also, I spent about twice what I used to spend on Christmas, and I didn't get twice the enjoyment out of it. So I am worried that if I increase my spending rate now, the miniscule increase in enjoyment I might get would be more than offset by the dismay at watching my FIRE date leap into the future.
Maybe its just the winter blahs and I just need more vitamin D.
Thanks for reading.
2Cor521