While hubby and I were working our butts off, driving older cars, and paying off houses.....everyone else was partying and living high on the hog. Now at 60 we’re totally comfy and they’re all scratching to pay their bills.
We pretty much drove our cars for years until they fell apart. One of my younger sisters would complain to me "If I had your money I'd buy a Mercedes and expensive jewelry and dangle my arm out the window!". Well, I never bought a Mercedes, I don't like jewelry or care for it, and an old truck is fine for me. That sister and her husband went broke, lost their house, and are bouncing from apartment to apartment with creditors chasing them. Oh, they were party animals, but the party has long been over for them. Meanwhile me and my wife are very comfy, house paid off and no debts (and my old cars still run, one is fifty years old).