whee! taking a plunge with spending

[palomalou]

I have been hunting for a thread about freeing up one's spending habits, but can't find it. We have a taken a big plunge and rented an apartment in an Italian city we love though we will be able to spend only half the year hear on tourist visas, and bought a modest grand piano for it ( I am/was a pianist). we had been spending about 63% of what firecalc and i-orp had said we could, and with these stints in Europe will still spend a good 30K less than both of those and our financial advisor at TIAA says we can. I keep having to take a deep breath and remind myself that we have calculated it six ways to Sunday and it is safe. A hard transition from, "Is there any way I can keep from spending this money? Is there any way I can do this for less?" to "We can spend at this level safely and we want to and we won't live forever."

 

[braumeister]

I have been hunting for a thread about freeing up one's spending habits, but can't find it.

Perhaps this one:
Blow that Dough

 

[marko]

Get a boat. A big one like the 52 footer I had. The maintenance and storage alone will broaden your horizons about "freeing up your spending habits".

 

[JoeWras]

Careful. Starting a thread with that word has caused the world to tilt on its axis.

I wasn't around when it happened, but people talk about it in legendary terms. I don't understand it. All I know is some people use wh$% because the word is so legendary.

 

[W2R]

Careful. Starting a thread with that word has caused the world to tilt on its axis.

I wasn't around when it happened, but people talk about it in legendary terms. I don't understand it. All I know is some people use wh$% because the word is so legendary.

Here it is, for any that are curious:

https://www.early-retirement.org/forums/f28/record-dow-whee-30317.html

 

[Sunset]

What Italian City ?

What about furnishings , does it come furnished ?

 

[palomalou]

Perhaps this one:
Blow that Dough

Yes, that was it! i was searching every permutation i could think of for "spend."

 

[palomalou]

What Italian City ?

What about furnishings , does it come furnished ?

Furnished, down to dishes and sheets, in Bologna. We will have to get a dryer. I do not understand how northern Italians do without. It makes me crazy to think, "I might run out of underwear, or shirts, or whatever, in 3 days, so I had better do laundry now, so it has time to dry." In Sicily, or anywhere in southern Italy, if you have consistent warm weather, a terrace and things dry fast, maybe, but here?

 

[DrRoy]

If the math works, go for it.

 

[flyingaway]

Do you still keep your U.S. home?

 

[racy]

Get a boat. A big one like the 52 footer I had. The maintenance and storage alone will broaden your horizons about "freeing up your spending habits".

The two best days in a boat owner's life: the day he buys it and the day he sells it.

 

[MarieIG]

Well, it sounds as if you are in a great position. (I don't spend just to spend - but if something comes up that you want to do - you know you can.)

 

[Lewis Clark]

Get a boat. A big one like the 52 footer I had. The maintenance and storage alone will broaden your horizons about "freeing up your spending habits".

"Boat" is an acronym for "Break Out Another Thousand". : )

 

[Fermion]

They really need to update the b.o.a.t. thing. One thousand just does not go very far now in a marine store.

 

[Teacher Terry]

People don’t have dryers in Europe because the cost of electricity is so high which is also why many don’t have AC. My relatives in Poland which is a cold climate dry everything in the bathroom on a drying rack in cold weather.

 

[marko]

They really need to update the b.o.a.t. thing. One thousand just does not go very far now in a marine store.

Heck, that is what it was costing me for ONE WEEK'S worth of winter storage!

 

[marko]

The two best days in a boat owner's life: the day he buys it and the day he sells it.

For me, the day we sold her was a melancholy day. She just got old on me and too big for us and needed some very, very expensive repairs. (sniff!)

See my post. https://www.early-retirement.org/forums/f27/second-happiest-day-113890.html