RetiredGypsy
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Since these threads were started
http://www.early-retirement.org/for...ay-7-million-not-enough-to-be-rich-55188.html
http://www.early-retirement.org/forums/f28/scraping-by-on-250k-year-55203.html#post1047613
I've been trying to fill my head with all the ways I could spend $300k a year. No matter how hard I try, I just can't do it. I'm too comfortable with my life to want to rush out to drastically change anything with such a large influx of money. I still wouldn't want to get satellite television, I still wouldn't want a smart phone or a hanger full of toys. Even the most expensive things I want to do wouldn't require more than $10-20k over what I have now, and that's if I did everything over again yearly.
I'm reminded of the businessman in The Millionaire Next Door, who turned down a Rolls-Royce because it didn't fit his LBYM lifestyle. That's how I feel.
Could you? Have you been LBYMing so long that you couldn't see yourself changing much? Would you run off with $300k a year and never look back? Could you do it with half that much? A quarter?
http://www.early-retirement.org/for...ay-7-million-not-enough-to-be-rich-55188.html
http://www.early-retirement.org/forums/f28/scraping-by-on-250k-year-55203.html#post1047613
I've been trying to fill my head with all the ways I could spend $300k a year. No matter how hard I try, I just can't do it. I'm too comfortable with my life to want to rush out to drastically change anything with such a large influx of money. I still wouldn't want to get satellite television, I still wouldn't want a smart phone or a hanger full of toys. Even the most expensive things I want to do wouldn't require more than $10-20k over what I have now, and that's if I did everything over again yearly.
I'm reminded of the businessman in The Millionaire Next Door, who turned down a Rolls-Royce because it didn't fit his LBYM lifestyle. That's how I feel.
Could you? Have you been LBYMing so long that you couldn't see yourself changing much? Would you run off with $300k a year and never look back? Could you do it with half that much? A quarter?