01-11-2017, 03:10 PM
If you think "hey man, I can swing a $500 car payment" when you're 22, then you should be (paying off debt or) saving more for retirement. I don't care how good your returns are, there's no making up for an extra 10 years of investment. I was married at 25, so I didn't have that single-and-making-cash phase, but bumping from my 6% (401k match) to 10% would likely have made a noticeable difference.
I'm a big fan of spending money to enjoy my life, so don't be afraid to buy things that make you happy... just be smart.
I'm a big fan of spending money to enjoy my life, so don't be afraid to buy things that make you happy... just be smart.
'76 911S | '14 328xi | '17 GTI | In memoriam: '08 848, '85 944
"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth
"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth