watchman3135
Recycles dryer sheets
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- Jun 28, 2017
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Congratulations!
Thank you.
Congratulations!
I just checked all of our accounts tonight and with this crazy market we hit a milestone and officially entered multi millionaire status at $2,069,004.72. I am 55 and the DW is 51 and years ago I always wondered what it would feel like to be a multimillionaire and now I know. Not one bit different ...
There is only one question to ask - "Do you have enough for you?" What anyone else has is irrelevant.
+100Rest assured, just about anyone posting here is better off than most of the world.
I count my blessings and keep a healthy perspective. The whole idea of FIRE is you are doing things on your own terms. That to me does not include worrying about how others do it.
Although it's nice to be able to compare notes on NW, living expenses, etc with other people, I find it more useful to keep a "diary" of data on myself & compare this over time.
I agree. I believe one can more easily get into trouble by looking at what others have or spend, instead of figuring out what one's own needs are.
Congratulations. It felt anti-climatic for me too.
I try not to judge myself against other people. It'll only end in disappointment.
NW is relative.
Most of what we have in life is the result of good luck, starting in our case with being born white and American, with many more lucky breaks along the way. This is also true of the political Kennedys and the financial Waltons and Buffets. While we continually marvel at our good luck, we certainly don't consider ourselves to be failures because others lucked into better parents or had other wonderful luck.... wondering if others seeing higher net worth's make you feel somewhat of a bit of a failure? ...
Spoiler alert: the next $1M will come faster than the last one, and so on...
Nope.
Some have less, others more. Same as it ever was.
This is especially true if you are expecting a large inheritance.
As for those with >$5M who worry about having enough - those are people who want a FAT fire.