kam
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Almost half of millionaires admit they don't feel rich, many of whom admit they would need a minimum of $7.5 million to feel truly rich. What does rich look like to you? Gayle Kind Show
Turned on the TV this am when I woke at 5:30 am for a few minutes and the above was the topic.
I do recall one woman calling in saying Rich was the person who needs the least. That the sun shines through the apartment window the same as it does the house on the river.
Gayle talked about how she once thought $50,000, then $100,000 etc would be what she needed to make.
And how she would never spend $300 on a blouse or a certain amount on shoes and how that all changed as her income changed.
The talk is from an article that said most millionaires do not feel rich.
I noticed many years ago when I lived on the coast that having a million was not rich anymore.
They (don't know who they are) said that 7.5 million is now the new rich.
What about you. What does rich look like to you? For those of us with health needs it adds a whole different perseptive.
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How about enough to pay all my debts and enough to pay all my bills each month. Then enough to take a real vacation every year.
Sounds good to me!
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kam
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I have to flash back to before I came down sick to answer this one.
There is rich and then there is comfortable.
Rich would be having ones health.
Wealth would be having wonderful friends and being able to go place and do things with them ....enjoying life.
Financially stable would be:
Diversified: Real Estate including a working ranch that supports itself, Other investments, (need to come back to this)
At one time I thought having my own plane would be the way to go. I still feel this way. Need to be specific with what kind of plane.
Don't want a small two seater with maybe two seats in the back. Need somethign a bit larger and smoother..but also don't want a jet.
rich would be being able to have a healing ranch for those who need a place to stay while they are healing from lyme and other conditions
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I'm leaving on a jet plane...
with white leather couches, wide screen TV, a full kitchen & beds.
Don't know when I'll be back again...
***I like this*** --->> rich would be being able to have a healing ranch for those who need a place to stay while they are healing from lyme and other conditions
Healing Ranch... in the desert? or on the ocean... or both.
That would be rich... in more ways than one.
I think we are all as rich as we see ourselves. To be rich is to be satisfied. As long as someone is always reaching and never satisfied, they will feel poor no matter how rich they are.
Herbert Hoover - 31st President of the United States said, "About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends."
Our ends should be endless. That starts with belief. Someone who feels like a pauper will not be able to rise above his own thoughts.
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randibear
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we have friends who are filthy rich. they own a ranch of 31,000 yes 31,000 acres in wyoming.
we go there at least twice a year adn he hunts there in october.
they are the most down to earth "common" people you'd ever want to meet. you would never ever think of them as having money. never....
for me, money to pay off these bills and help out my one sister. to feel comfortable but not afraid when i buy something.
some people consider me well off but i'm not....just use plastic too much.
some of the richest people i know wear overalls and drive pickup trucks.
but hey that's texas for ya...
and yes i would be rich indeed if i had my health.
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"Rich" -- would be able to send my kids to college and not be in debt forever over it.
then: "Study hard and get into the best school you can, honey!" now: "Oh crap, they are taking us seriously! What do we do now?"
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Wealth is, I think truly in the eye of the beholder and each is affected differently by having that wealth. I have two rich friends who both own airplanes. One insures his to the hilt while the other carries no insurance, he figures if he crashes bad enough to tear up his plane that he won't be around to worry about it! He do have a point but still, I carried enough to replace mine, cause if I lost mine I would have had to step and fetch to replace it. Friends call a boat a hole in the water that you throw money into, well a plane is like a hole in the sky. You never get it just like you want it till you can't use it anymore! We had our plane for about 25 years. This was the perfect plane, big single engine, six seats and 20,000 ft ceiling. We went to just about every state except Alaska and I had plans to do that. In the last couple of years I had the paint taken down to bare metal and a beautiful paint job done. While it was down for paint I had a new and beautiful interior installed, leather seats with sheepskin centers and carpeting. I guess now I know where planes picked up their feminity, you doll anything up enough it looks good!
I made a few trips to the casinos, the main reason for having the plane, then heart problems started, though to be lyme induced. With an ICD implanted in my chest, getting past my medical examiner for another year was problematic at best. Easy fix, just teach the wife to fly and the be her co-pilot for the next 25 years. To abbreviate a bit, she had to have the latest avionics, think gold here!!
Well, we got all that and she didn't want to fly anymore! Another year goes by with only 6 hrs in the air and an excessive annual bill and we decided to sell. Got tired of dealers and low balers telling us how little our plane was worth when a new one is over half a mill with the same performance so we chose to donate it to Wings of Hope. They are very happy and I'm very sad!
The secret of wealth is good health and a damn good mate! I came out of three marriages with a cigar box of personal effects, a good job and deep in debt to the IRS. Life now just gets better ever year. It's a state of mind (mostly), like the man said, you can't roller-skate in a buffalo herd, but you can have fun if you've a mind to!! Kam, I guess I'm living your dream, I have the ranch too. I just had to order 500 gallons of diesel, I don't feel so rich after doing that!!
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Lab Rat...hoping it is a long time before you need to order diesel again. Posts: 15927 | From Became too sick to work or do household chores in 2001. | Registered: Dec 2002
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kam, what an interesting question. Thanks for making me think about this.
"rich" to my parents who both came from having nothing meant having enough money to pay the bills and helping their children as best they could.
The "rich" they gave us was instilling the drive to get educated and to strive for success. We never expected financial help because we knew it wasn't within our reality.
"Rich" meant having the opportunity to become educated and landing a good job.
"Rich" to my husband (whose parents also came from having nothing) and me meant being grateful for being able to give more to our children.
We were "rich" because we were able to put aside money for college, were able to give our kids a backyard with a swingset, were able to go on vacations, and were able to provide them opportunities to participate in a variety of sports and activities.
These days "rich" means being able to pay out-of-pocket medical expenses.
And like back in the day, "rich" means having enough money to pay the bills and help our children as best we can.
"Rich" still means instilling the drive in our kids to get educated and strive for success. And being "rich" is having the opportunity to become educated and landing a good job.
But after this DD, "rich" to me would mean that I could have a foundation to somehow help people who are suffering.
And selfishly speaking, being "rich" would also mean that I'd be able to own places in my favorite cities: San Diego, San Francisco, West Palm Beach, Cape May, NYC.
-------------------- You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
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