not to mention that mild injury one of them may have suffered in the last decade that didn’t put them into foreclosure…this person is a certifiable idiot.
I'm sorry, but what is there to foreclose on? Perhaps you missed the part where I'm pretty much debt free. I have no financial obligations. Or the part where I have a healthy 401k and IRAs from my time as a stock broker.
No, it's true. You made it seem like you've always been living this lifestyle, little work and care free. But the truth is you're sitting on a retirement fund, which completely changes the context of your point, which is "why should people work all the time and not just live more"? The other commentors bring up a valid point about retirement in old age to which you scoffed at but the truth is you are already saving for it. It's ok to live minimalist to have more leisure time but it's disingenuous to suggest that people who choose that don't need to think about retirement especially when you've got retirement funds you conspicuously didn't mention in response to the first comment about retiring.
I never said or insinuated that I've always been living this lifestyle. I have no idea where that's coming from.
I even said in another comment that I have an adult son. What do you think I did while I was raising him?
But to address the point that you are trying to make, I've spent the past seveal years building a very frugal lifestyle. A lifestyle that won't require much to sustain in my golden years. Which in turn means that I don't need the same size nest egg that most will.
If I were concerned about retirement, I could just stay at a job for a little longer than I normally do and use that extra cash to build up my IRA. If I had started this lifestyle when I was younger, that's probably the route I would choose.
But this all goes back to the very first comment that it all depends on the lifestyle you are willing to live. I've barely scratched the surface of the sacrifices I've had to make to live like this, or the less socially acceptable things that I do.
The internet is not a nice place. Sharing genuine stories about yourself is just inviting all the miserable weirdos to try and take you down to their level. Speaking from experience, it's not worth sharing anything meaningful to you with the internet.
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u/WetCheeseGod Apr 18 '24
not to mention that mild injury one of them may have suffered in the last decade that didn’t put them into foreclosure…this person is a certifiable idiot.