People who saved all of their money at a young age instead of living, and now are 50 plus years old.

How are your lives today? Do you regret your life choices when it comes to the money aspect?

We scrimmed for decades. Our house is paid off. We have one car payment for three more months.

We have no credit card debt. Our retirement savings are ahead of schedule. Next week, we head to Iceland for my 52nd birthday. Totally worth it.

Nobody wants to be 75, sick, and too poor to quit working, no matter how much fun you had as a 20-something.

I did mostly stupid things in my early 20s, but I always put at least 15% of my income into 401k's

with matching benefits. After 24 years living the corporate middle manager cube life,

we had the means to purchase a wholesale nursery, and now I'm a flower farmer. I just walked

through my greenhouse with my dog with a cup of coffee, and I do not regret a penny of savings.

Losing my job as a fairly well-paid engineering manager in the defense industry and having

to sell my house during the housing crash in the early 90s ended up in retrospect being a defining moment in my current financial

well-being. It took roughly six years to get back to anywhere near my former career trajectory

after landing a good position in the cellular industry. Once Brunt twice shy, my wife, a registered

nurse and I bought a home that was about half the price the bank said we qualified for. Our reasoning being, if one of us lost our job, most likely me again,

because nurses, we wouldn't have to lose our home again. Fortunately, that never happened. We were

both able to advance in our careers and were able to pay off our mortgage in seven years,

fully fund our son's college education, max out our IRA contributions, and have

literally no debt. My wife just paid cash for a Subaru Forrester, not the fanciest of cars or a

status symbol by any means, but she loves it. Today is literally my last day at work before I voluntarily

retire early at the age of 58. I feel like this is for the most part going to be very one-sided,

except for people

who have had just rotten luck in finances or maybe property investment or something like that,

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