Yeah, after buying new cars/houses for the kids and helping out a few relatives/friends and donating to my favorite charities, I would dump a bunch of money into my brokerage accounts and buy more stocks.
Yeah, I have a tough hide. They are SOL. No matter their SOL stories.
That’s where I’d be lucky - no one on my side of the family flies. They’re all terrified of it. We’d be separated by an ocean, and they don’t know how to dial internationally.
It's not in trend anymore, but it's really funny when you find out that some people around you just do the same and you start talking about your ways of keeping your money for retirement.
Only 1 of my 4 kids--ages 28 to 34--has anything setup for retirement, and she's my youngest. She's got a retirement account through her work that part of her paycheck goes into and also has an individual brokerage account that she puts about $5k a year in to buy stocks. The other kids spend everything they make.
