When did u stop being cheap?

[Roller252]

Hi all.
Here's the deal. I'm a full scale RPCD (11yrs) and still won't spend a dime. Debt free beyond my mortgage and my child support ends this fall. My two vehicles are 16 and 33 yrs old. (run just fine) 401K and IRA both well funded.

Wife and I went mattress shopping this weekend and WTF. National chain store (strip mall) wanted like $4k for a Hybrid and frame. I get the whole investment in health and sleep blah, blah, blah but it's a bed none the less. Any how my point and question is we all make good money some more than others (depends where u live etc) but you never know.

I'm on the 9.5 list (like it matters) and will clear 6 figures like a lot of us but still can't get get used to it. When did u decide it's time to enjoy what u work hard for.?

 

[sailfish]

I've always gone cheap on things that don't mean sh* to me, moderate on things I'm not particular on but need them to last, and all-out on things I take a very special interest in.

 

[rod]

I've always been cheap with most things. (except I like a nice house-new vehicles and Harleys). Our last mattress we bought about 8 years ago listed for around $1700. A friend who owned a percentage of our local Quality Inn and Suites got me the same identical mattress for $700. Hotels and Motels get STEEP discounts on that kind of stuff. Its nice to have connections.

 

[sailfish]

The pillow I lay my head on at night is twenty three years old. Sounds weird, but it's comfortable and I like it. Hard to sleep on anything else.

 

[542thruNthru]

Only things I'm not cheap on is alcohol, food and sex lube.

 

[quad decade guy]

Hi all.
Here's the deal. I'm a full scale RPCD (11yrs) and still won't spend a dime. Debt free beyond my mortgage and my child support ends this fall. My two vehicles are 16 and 33 yrs old. (run just fine) 401K and IRA both well funded.

Wife and I went mattress shopping this weekend and WTF. National chain store (strip mall) wanted like $4k for a Hybrid and frame. I get the whole investment in health and sleep blah, blah, blah but it's a bed none the less. Any how my point and question is we all make good money some more than others (depends where u live etc) but you never know.

I'm on the 9.5 list (like it matters) and will clear 6 figures like a lot of us but still can't get get used to it. When did u decide it's time to enjoy what u work hard for.?

Didn't say how old you are....that matters...in my way of thinking.

One thing I have realized(a long time ago) (I'm 58)....is you never get time back and you cannot buy time at ANY PRICE.

Now, a caveat......I'm hated and belittled for enjoying the fruits of my labor. I wouldn't be some of these guys for anything.....probably kill myself.....

That said, I also don't want to be that guy as they are putting me in the ground....."Yep.....old Quad Decade Guy......went his whole life and was frugal to the end and slept on a 8 year old mattress and a 23 year old pillow..."

You get one shot at this life......how much do you want to give up?

 

[Re-Raise]

You have a vehicle that is 33yrs old?!? Good lord man

 

[Roller252]

Sounds weird

Not weird, just gross, unless of course your 23 yr old pillow has a heart beat

 

[Roller252]

You have a vehicle that is 33yrs old?!? Good lord man

I think that makes it a classic right?

 

[Roller252]

Quality Inn and Suites

Friends in low places. Is that u Garth?

 

[Poop Head]

..ready to depart this life in the next breath.


I bought a new truck once i got my integrad date.

 

[TearsInRain]

I've always gone cheap on things that don't mean sh* to me, moderate on things I'm not particular on but need them to last, and all-out on things I take a very special interest in.

This is the way

 

[sailfish]

Not weird, just gross, unless of course your 23 yr old pillow has a heart beat

My last mattress made it about nineteen before the springs started to wear through the middle.

 

[nWo]

We have a building full of dudes with $75,000 pickup trucks that never haul anything outside of an occasional cornhole board. Cul de sac Cowboys.

3 years into their 7 year loan? Trade it in for a newer truck an build up more debt. But man the chicks in the parking lot are super impressed.

 

[Poop Head]

Nothing but the finest

 

[sailfish]

"Yep.....old Quad Decade Guy......went his whole life and was frugal to the end and slept on a 8 year old mattress and a 23 year old pillow..."

If it's comfortable, why replace it?

 

[542thruNthru]

My last mattress made it about nineteen before the springs started to wear through the middle.

Thats easy to accomplish when all you do is sleep in your bed.

 

[sailfish]

I have sixteen year old shirts from high school that still make just fine work shirts.

 

[sailfish]

Thats easy to accomplish when all you do is sleep in your bed.

Anything else I just use yours while you're at work.

 

[iowa boy]

I'm so cheap I can make 40 bucks last 2 weeks and still have 20 left over.