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Originally Posted by gg282  WOW... About 75% of the respondents here are small thinkers. $400 a month, $1000 a month?
Is that an idea life style?
Gary |
Yes - an ideal lifestyle can be had for this - I also think you have missed the point a bit.
What would all those $11000 a month buy you - someone to do your cleaning and catering - if I wanted that I could have that here for less than $US150 a month.
Invest all that money? Where? Hamdulilah, I was too lazy a year ago to shift my savings into a high-interest Icelandic bank account unlike many others and so didn't lose everything. My small investment in the stockmarket is worth just 60% of what I actually invested a couple of years back. Real estate? Well that too - values are substantially reduced on what they were a few years back.
Luxury vehicles? - as Will Smith's father reportedly said to him as he was buying his nth car/motorcycle - "son, you only got 1 ass" - if I want one I can hire one.
Fancy food, clothes, jewels - not interested - never have been. I spent a couple of weeks one time having fancy 3 course meals cooked by a cordon bleu chef twice a day and was begging for beans on toast by the end of it.
Hours of expensive beauty treatments to keep me looking young? No point - last week several women of my own age and nationality (ie not some guy trying to talk me into bed) who met me for the first time thought I was 20 years younger than I really am.
Yes, there are some major (non-personal) projects I would love to carry out if I had bucketloads of money - but as the poster above said, there are other ways of doing things.
I used to earn a pretty fat salary (compared to most) working in corporate - but I was very ill, highly stressed, had no time for friends and family or relationship, no time to read, study, whatever. I decided to think big, not small, and reconfigured my life for smaller financial needs so I could have the TIME to think, relate, read, sit and stare in to space for an hour if that's what I want to do! Take 2 hours drinking my morning coffee if that's what I want to do!
In my (humble
) opinion, TIME is the greatest luxury.