Just became you do not “feel” wealthy does not mean you are not.
Well, lets see – what made us feel “not wealthy”
– kids clothes – largely charity shop or hand me downs from families with older kids
– kids toys, agian a reasonable proportion from the charity shop
-holidays – uk, camping
– Food – prob spend per month on 4 what many spend on 1 or 2. even last year there were a couple of months were I was trying to do food on £1 per day
– Going out,eg pub, cinema – couple time per year??
OK, our lifestyle choice was to put mrs rkk01 through a teaching degree. An investment, if you like – which should pay off if we both keep in employment.
BUT, we had to pay for every **** single thing* for mrs rkk01 to do her degree – including childcare while she was studying (500pm for 4 yrs with noincome to offset against) Ohh and yes, all the other mature students on her course got that paid for by the state, then got the “cashback” from the childminders they were in cahootz with… 👿
So in terms of “Reality Check”, if you got your head out of your rear end you might recognise that “reality” comes in different flavours
To re-quote NZcol, again..
Most of the examples given on here are normal people living normal lives, earning respectable incomes but finding that the balance of costs vs income make certain elements hard to balance. Your dismissal of this as being due to their lifestyle choice shows you up as the narcissistic bufoon that I suspect you wish to be. Yoru life is not representative of the world, people have babies, people have normal 9-5 jobs that they are clinging onto by the skin of their teeth with no pensions and no salary uplift in years while the cost of living increases. Your arguments are, frankly, rude and disrepectful.
* edited to get the emphasis right