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My pension is about $130,000. Medicare is reimbursed and my secondary ins. is no cost. My wife was mostly stay at home so her SS is $500 a month. I paid in 10.26% for the first 8 years on the job then was able to get the plan A rate of 8.05% till I hit 30 years of service. I have a little in a 457 plan. I figure if I quit motorcycles, gave up my new truck and my wife gave up her equestrian lifestyle I would have an extra, oh, $2500 a month but if I dropped dead tomorrow I would have no regrets. Life insurance and home equity would net my wife about a mil in cash. I tend to keep cars around for a while. My previous truck was 21 years old. My wife's car is a 2012. My travel trailer is an 08.
$130,000 sounds like a lot but I live in SoCal and even with the equity I have I don't believe I could buy my home today.
There are a few things I would do better if I could go back but I will never say I wish I hadn't gone here and done that. I wish I had done more.

Add to that good health and no kids on drugs, and you're filthy rich! Richly blessed is a better way to say it though.

Smoke-
You ever hear of Bryce Environmental?

As others have said, it isn't what you make, it's how much of what you make you spend.

Living below your means and investing+property will get you wealth eventually. Making tons and living on credit will get you more debt faster than someone who's "poor."


I'm just glad my wife isn't a "spender"

After referring to my tax forms I seem to have an annual income of about $80,000 Cdn. This is from pension, investments and government supplements. House has been paid for years and its value has increased substantially lately due to inflation. I'm wealthier than I ever was.

I worked for just shy of 40 years in a lower mid-level government job that I enjoyed. My wife never worked outside the home until our oldest child was 13 years old. From that time she only worked in retail so her income wasn't significant.

I think it is safe to say we lived a more or less frugal life. In spite of this we enjoyed annual vacations, went to local dances and had a good circle of friends. Due to health problems I no longer hunt or belong to a shooting club. It's been a good run but the string is running out. We have no regrets!

Jim

Not really sure, half to 2/3rds of what I make is cash.

You’re gettin’ audited

Yep, they're a competitor. We did a project side-by-side with them at Peterson AFB here in CO. Peterson has a big problem with PFAS in their groundwater, Bryce was doing a technology demonstration of a soil cleanup technology, and we were doing demonstration projects for two water treatment technologies. Steve Becker was their guy.

We've also done work with some Bristol Bay Companies, Bill Burke and Steve Johnson before him (not the guide).

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Good health so far and 4 kids from 33 to 13. None ever in any trouble. Got one Nurse, one teacher, and one going into sports medicine. The 13-year-old is the only boy. I am just now remembering what a Neanderthal a 13-year-old boy is compared to a girl. Yes, sir I'm a blessed and happy man and I will be till I die because I choose to be.

Times are tough. I've shut most of the house down and am living in the library....

Just modestly recovered my car seats instead of getting a new car this year...,

More than sufficient for my needs. House will be paid off in 3 months. If I could just figure out the damned health insurance without going broke, I would retire as soon as the house is paid for. way too young to get medicare.

The Queen, bless her heart, visiting my vault prior to her passing...,

You probably never made that much, just saved and invested well, right?

Naw, I just found a collector penny...,
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