Re: and without being too cynical (archive)

Don't get married. Marriage and children are gigantic drains on cash flow, taking away from things like cars.
My recommendation. Get going in a career in a solid industry (I've always been in medical products). Buy a house. Get an Accord. When you've accumulated enough wealth for your age, buy a nice car.
Get married when you're 35 or so, financially set, and can have other types of fun in life.
I wouldn't base my investment strategy on buying an M5 someday.

Isn't being 35 a little too old to be having "other types of fun" in life???? After all, right now I'm young enough that when I have fun and I happen to regret it later, I can always excuse it with "I was young a stupid". When you are ~35, it's harder to use that excuse.

Also, I think I would like to have kids when I'm arround 30 - money is important; yea, I understand kids cost a lot, but then it's a quality of life issue.

Actually, when people talk about buying houses, investing, etc. When you are in your mid-twenties, I'm not sure if that is rational. After all, most people at that age move arround a lot - with a house, you need to stay put for at least ~2-3 years (taxes, closing cost, realtors, etc).

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I think, if it's affordable to you, having kids Chip 12:25 10/15/2001 (3)
- good point : M ADDICT 12:49 10/15/2001 (0)
- Re: I think, if it's affordable to you, having kid eleison 12:46 10/15/2001 (1)
  - yeah, that's true, I took too small of a sample Chip 18:02 10/15/2001 (0)

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