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[Trogdor1123]

I have a bit put away and have 2 pensions through my work (and a crappy government one), both of which are rather generous. Assuming I have a 2% growth in wage ( I've averaged closer to 6% the last 10 years) I and my family should be just fine.

 

[Tajaz2426]

Been retired since I was 38 and about 45 now. My wife wants more out of me than the Marine Corps did.

On the financial side every deployment I would receive per diem of a certain amount. I would get the cash out of the ATM horse it and eat Raman noodles every deployment to safe countries for six to seven months at a time and invest when I returned.

I have five deployments to combat zones which was hazardous duty pay of 500 extra a month and I would do the same.

I invested heavily into apple in 05 or 06 and then Tesla early on, also. I have a company that does my stuff now but I used to pay attention as much as possible.

In 08 when the housing market crashed I took out tons of loans for land and houses that were being auctioned off and made a good return on 2015.

I live off of interest pretty much now on things and some rentals that I have left. I don't live a life of anything crazy. I mostly hike, ride horses, rock climb, and sky dive for fun , so I don't spend much on that.

Just be good with your money, invest when you can and the market is in correction or worse.

My wife still works though as she sees how horrible retirement is on me. She runs the post offices in our area and wants to retire so if anything happens we have another retirement.

That's about it.

 

[Wilhelm_85]

Praying to the Lord

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Been retired since I was 38 and about 45 now. My wife wants more out of me than the Marine Corps did.

On the financial side every deployment I would receive per diem of a certain amount. I would get the cash out of the ATM horse it and eat Raman noodles every deployment to safe countries for six to seven months at a time and invest when I returned.

I have five deployments to combat zones which was hazardous duty pay of 500 extra a month and I would do the same.

I invested heavily into apple in 05 or 06 and then Tesla early on, also. I have a company that does my stuff now but I used to pay attention as much as possible.

In 08 when the housing market crashed I took out tons of loans for land and houses that were being auctioned off and made a good return on 2015.

I live off of interest pretty much now on things and some rentals that I have left. I don't live a life of anything crazy. I mostly hike, ride horses, rock climb, and sky dive for fun , so I don't spend much on that.

Just be good with your money, invest when you can and the market is in correction or worse.

My wife still works though as she sees how horrible retirement is on me. She runs the post offices in our area and wants to retire so if anything happens we have another retirement.

That's about it.

When the global financial crisis happened, a bunch of us at my old company were seriously thinking about pooling our money to buy a property in Arizona. One of the places hit hard as it has lots of summer/retirement kinds of places and some homes were being dumped for $100k. We were like.... if we all chip in $25k we can buy a summer home we can all share. I bailed since I already had an investment property. The other guys never bothered.

It was nuts how many homes were being dumped for a fraction of the cost!

But as you said, looks like we are kind of similar. Even when we make money, we dont go ape shit blowing it all on stuff losing it back. That's a problem many people have. The second they run into more money (like getting a promotion), they amp up their spending too, so end of day they are broke again.

My excess money, I just cycle it into more investments. I basically shop and live similar to when I first moved out. ya, I got a nice car now and can afford to buy a new MSI laptop when I feel like it, but my overall life style is pretty much the same.

For some people, the more money they make the more they blow it all. For others, the more money they make, the more they bank.