[jhynesrockmtn]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

It seems to be going by at a snail’s pace for me. For the past few days I’ve been calculating the kind of lifestyle we can afford given balance between how much money we have and how much longer we have to live. Do we live large and hope to die soon, or live on cat food and live to 110? Either way, the suspense would be killing me if I obsessed about it.

As I understand it, there is a growing "die with zero" movement. So many of our generation were savers and the thinking that is typical is what can I leave for my heirs? I've had to work to get it through the head of my financial guy that my goal isn't to leave the biggest pile of dough for my kids/grandkids. I love them to death, but they are doing well and will at a minimum inherit my house. That is plenty.

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