jjpenguin
<font color=red>A penguin with mouse ears & wooden
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- Sep 26, 1999
Great thread
Isn't it strange that people look at what you have or what you do to see if you're "rich". I suppose a lot of people see us that way as well, we live in a great house in the poshest part of town and holiday at least once a year to Florida or other long haul destinations and if at all possible try and get a couple of weekend breaks in as well.
However, a great deal of the house was bought with the money left when my parents died (my mum died before she was 65 and my dad gave up after that but still hung on for another five years,desperately unhappy and drinking too much. I'm an only child.). and we are grateful for that every day. One of the lessons that this taught me was not to wait till "later"; they did and couldn't do anything they had saved for as my mum was too ill.
This is why we also put part of the money into DVC so that we could do what is important to us, take time to relax and enjoy each other's company at a magical place that we both love (me a bit more than DH!!)
My job pays the bills and DH is setting up his own company which is finally starting to earn something. This means that there isn't much time to go away so we want to make the most of it when we do.
Like others have said we have no social life and don't drink, smoke or have a big car, we prefer to spend our money on travel. Since we've been a one income household we have cut down on eating out, clothes etc. preferring to spend our money on what we find important. You can only spend it once!!
Isn't it strange that people look at what you have or what you do to see if you're "rich". I suppose a lot of people see us that way as well, we live in a great house in the poshest part of town and holiday at least once a year to Florida or other long haul destinations and if at all possible try and get a couple of weekend breaks in as well.
However, a great deal of the house was bought with the money left when my parents died (my mum died before she was 65 and my dad gave up after that but still hung on for another five years,desperately unhappy and drinking too much. I'm an only child.). and we are grateful for that every day. One of the lessons that this taught me was not to wait till "later"; they did and couldn't do anything they had saved for as my mum was too ill.
This is why we also put part of the money into DVC so that we could do what is important to us, take time to relax and enjoy each other's company at a magical place that we both love (me a bit more than DH!!)
My job pays the bills and DH is setting up his own company which is finally starting to earn something. This means that there isn't much time to go away so we want to make the most of it when we do.
Like others have said we have no social life and don't drink, smoke or have a big car, we prefer to spend our money on travel. Since we've been a one income household we have cut down on eating out, clothes etc. preferring to spend our money on what we find important. You can only spend it once!!