zinfamous
No Lifer
- Jul 12, 2006
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yeah my dad died at 57 and never even experienced retirement. everyone gave my wife and myself shit when we were blowing all of our money on traveling in our early 20's through early 30's, telling us we need to buy a house and have a kid blah blah blah.
well now we're early 30's and have a 1 year old and have traveled to more places than our entire families combined. plus we still travel 3-4 times a year since we've made it a priority.
i've got a good plan for retirement and could easily save more but that would hinder our travel plans. i think we've struck a good balance. i don't understand the people who go to one or the other extremes.
hell i was just talking to my one buddy who hasn't had a "real" vacation (as in, gone on an airplane to go somewhere other than seeing family) in over a decade and he said how he's going to take his tax return ($5+ grand) and use it to do work on his house. i told him to just fuck that and use it on an awesome vacation. he can always do work on his house later when he gets back and in the next year or so, but he's only getting older and won't be able to travel in his younger years (he's already early 40's) much longer.
Who says I don't travel? Yeah, I'm going to start traveling more, but Belize was 2 years ago. Either Cuba or Peru/Argentina something next year. I've been to enough of the caribbean to know that I don't ever need to see anymore of that.
I do like traveling to Europe, but I've spent about 7 months there, total. I'm certainly going to be heading that way several more times, but it's not like I've sheltered myself in life.
Oh and to be more clear, my 50-60% savings/investing plan is only very, very recent. I have been shitting all of that away on booze and candy and other nonsense gadgets that I don't need. I've declared to myself that I have grown out of much of that lifestyle, yet can still live and eat very well.