athena53
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Maybe slightly off topic but I've been thinking how relative it all is too. For example, I'm spending around $50 on a new car and paying an extra $1000 for a different color paint doesn't faze me at all. Yet when I go grocery shopping, I'll still carefully look, and will choose one brand over another to save me $0.25.
That's me. I lost $500K on paper during the March/April crash last year. Very bad news, of course, but I waited it out. If I'd had more cash-equivalents sitting around I might have bought more.
And yet... I'm very careful to stay under 1 gig of data on my iPhone plan or it would cost me another $5 for the next gig. I was tickled at getting a $50 Starbucks gift card from e-Rewards this morning and I thought it was a splurge to upgrade to a higher-definition version of Netflix (my only streaming service, no cable) for $5 more/month when I bought a new TV. It's not a miserly life; I fly in Business Class on long-hauls, give generously to charity and enjoy spoiling my grandchildren, but those are high priorities.
I am convinced that all my frugal habits and my obsession with keeping recurring expenses reasonable is how I ended up as solvent as I am.
And you can't talk me out of it.