Does anyone else not care about being rich?

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I feel if I have a roof over my head that's a decent place (not infested, waterproofed, etc. you know, meets living requirements) has food in the fridge and a bed to sleep on, I'm good. I don't really care about a big, pretty house as long as my home is homey. I don't really care about having a fancy car as long as my car runs well. I don't really care about not being "upper middle class" it feels so strange as a college person for all my friends to want to achieve more and I'm happy with my husband and I making ends meat with a little emergency fund and able to save up for a little vacation here and there.
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Is that weird? I don't really want to strive for much more. The only reason I want to make a little more is to more easily afford a baby in the future.
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Maybe it's because I've been on and off homeless before, but I'm happy with my little 2 bedroom apartment that's not super decorated and having modest date nights every 2 weeks. I feel like everyone around me is constantly striving for "more" but I feel like I'm already there, and would probably be considered in the "poor" category for most people. What I want for my future more involves activities and happiness than it does money. And we've pretty much got enough money to make that happen, especially once hubby gets his career job. (Where he'll make 3x he's making now)

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Me lol there's a quote that i looooove but i don't remember who said it but he said "i make myself rich by making my wants few" and that's something i try to live by 😉

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I personally, want the best. I don't need a fancy house, cars or anything, but I don't want to just "make ends meet" and be content with that.

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My husband and I were literally JUST talking about this. He's in the military and will make a substantial amount more money over the next few years. We were aughing about it trying to figure out what we'd even do with it. We're comfortably middle class and have a daughter on the way, but we both like the way we live. We have some nice things and new cars, but for the most part we are pretty frugal. As long as our daughter always has what she needs and we aren't going paycheck to paycheck, we're happy!

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I want to be financially secure, that's it. I just don't want to live paycheck to paycheck for the rest of my life, but I don't need to be rich.

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No thats normol. I have a two bedroom house which is clean and homely. We stayed away in my SO bosses huge 10 bed mansion with acres of land and i honestly felt just lost and scared to move all fortnight i couldnt wait to get home.

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Not weird at all. Americans are way too invested in social class (I'm American) and material possessions, in my opinion.

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I'm happy with 98% of where we are at right now. We live in a tiny 1 bedroom apartment with 2 cats, 2 rats, and now a 39 pound 4 month old puppy. I have my car and suburban that I dont make payments on and are more reliable than any modern car I have ever owned (never had a problem with all mechanical vehicles personally.) They don't look the best but they serve their purpose.

Only thing that could make things even better is having our own place away from this town ( breed bans on dogs and other things we don't like.) and away from the neighbor who keeps trying to get us in trouble for no reason that we can think of. We have never done anything to them but they tried to get us in trouble with the property manager and just now tried to get animal control to take our pup away by saying he is aggressive when he isn't. They scared him while he was napping ,on purpose at that, so he barked and growled while getting closer to me.

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Satisfaction with your life is always positive. I'm choosing to become a stay at home mom and cutting my income completely once baby is here. Because I value my husband and family above money and material things. (Not saying people in a two income household don't, I just have personal reasons against having my children in day care or being raised by other individuals). I budget and coupon now, even though we have a huge savings. So I would just continue to do what I would do now.  I don't need a 250000$ home, even though we could have one. Things in the end are just things. Whether you live rich or live modest or even poor if you're happy that's what matters.

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That's a good thing. You're humble. You'll have a much happier life loving what you have and enjoying the little things than trying to be better than others or have the newest this or better that. Consider yourself lucky. Maybe someday you can buy a house you can call your own otherwise you seen to have anything you could need

Does anyone else not care about being rich?

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