True dat. I could easily get a $50, 000 car financed but the last care I bought I paid $11K for a used car. When I bought my Condo I had it financed at $175K but though I was approved for $300,000. My wife and I don't have kids so who needs all that wasted space?
I've largely have been putting that extra jack in my 401K cause my company is still matching what I put into it so that's an automatic 50% roi. Assuming the market doesn't completely collapse I should do all right...though I doubt I hit the magic million. My plan is the invest till it hurts till I'm at least 63 and then change employment to something less stressful and more flexible. and try to draw down as little on my savings as I can till 70. I'm not the retiring type. I want to get a nest egg saved up so that I can work at things that are rewarding in other ways.