[debtfreeme]

It just makes me feel better to read and have ideas, people to bounce ideas and questions off for topics I know very little about (buying a house for example).

I could live really comfortably if I chose to spend my money but I am the one who prefers to save around 25% each month post tax and about 15% pretax, which totals more than 1400 a month. It is important for me to have a cushion, save for a down payment and save for retirement. I am also a contract employee whose job could end at any time (august anyone??) so I would prefer to have more in the bank than I currently have.

I also found this site not ling after I started this position and doubled my money. It was important to use it/save it the best way I could so that I got the best return, either by saving it or my choices in spending it. If that means I live in a town house with two room mates, share all utilities etc to save more money, gas, time, expenses then that is what I choose.

The choice I made when I was younger haunt me now and I don’t want to live with them forever. Another 2 years and I can have the life I want and hopefully the life that I am supposed to be living, cause the one I have right now is not it.