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Originally Posted by frazod
My best friend is a miser who saves ever penny he can. We bought new cars at roughly the same time back in the late 90s - he recently, finally sold that car (a hideous little 4-door forest green Saturn), and I'm on my sixth different one.
Of course, he got wiped out when the stock market went to shit. Now he wishes he'd blown the money on new cars.  |
if a man saves his money and wants ANY car on the planet and can pay for it without financing it...
Go for it, you work for it, you earned it, spend it as you wish.
But....
When you have a mortgage taking 60% of your salary, you do not need a 40k suv and a few credit cards
Theres where the problem is, people start using their cards to live when they are in rough times when they should have saved when they were having good times.