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Originally posted by SoCal911SC
Fix everything around the house.

Do my own haircuts.

Do all my own car repairs (I can count on one hand the times my cars have been in the shop in the past 15 years).

Eat leftovers for lunch, or if I go out for lunch almost never spend more than $5.

Wash my own cars. In my 23 years of driving, I've NEVER paid for a car wash. Not once!

My daily driver is 19 years old with 160K miles. Cheap maintenance (all DIY, natch), cheap insurance, and cheap registration.

Don't buy trinkets and doodads that immediately depreciate 80% the second you take it out of the box. No plasma TV. Heck, I don't even have a DVD player!

Family eats breakfast lunch and dinner at home 6 days/week. On the night we go out, lunch is usually $10, dinner less than $30.

Consciously chose to live walking distance from elementary, middle and high school. And 3.5 miles from work. $3 gas bothers me not a bit. (Car and transportation expenses can kill you).

Never had a car payment. Never would.

Paid off house by the age of 35.

Don't pay a penny of interest to anyone. Don't owe anyone anything.

Got married relatively early, and stayed married to the same woman! (Divorce is a finance killer!)

I don't view any of the above as sacrifices. Spending time with my wife and son, watching my son grow up, is PRICELESS to me. Everything else, as I am famous for saying "is just a bunch of crap."

ARE YOU SURE YOUR NOT MY MOTHER? U sound exactly like her.....