Sounds like you were brought up the same way I was.My Dad was a child of the Depression...he was the youngest of 8 kids brought up in the filthiest slums of Boston.He taught me,both by word and by deed,to always live below your means.For example...for his entire life,even when he had become comfortable and successful,he wore a Timex watch and drove Oldsmobiles when he could have afforded *much* better.
And I,too,live beneath my means.
“For example...for his entire life,even when he had become comfortable and successful,he wore a Timex watch and drove Oldsmobiles when he could have afforded *much* better.”
Yea... in my 68 years I’ve purchased 2 new cars. The first when I got out of the navy and was single. The second I bought for my spouse in ‘95. But then, I had a company car most of my career.