[gcparent]

I agree 100%. We never traded up like many in our town. We stayed in the same small home despite our family size growing.
We don’t have 50k cars in our driveway. We own 2 cars one with 90k other 100k. I drove the last one 14 yrs til died on side of road.

[hal ogen]

You’re a poker. Ours have 150k and 188k. Just warming up.

[ConservativeMind]

I drove my reliable compact car for 17 years. We now have two used cars bought at auction that are similarly reliable and were inexpensive. We plan to keep these for years, too.

My wife and I really enjoy living frugally, thankfully. We even make our vacations as add-ons to company paid trips, minimizing our costs.

We do get loans that are especially low interest for the cars, as I can easily get better use out of the money paying down our mortgage or through investing.