Ninja's_RGR'us (11/18/2011)
Eric M Russell (11/18/2011)
Ninja's_RGR'us (11/18/2011)
SPACE, anytime.100K is easy-ish to come buy with more work. Space is another story and not enough of a motivator to work towards for that long (for me atm anyways).
Dave Ramsey would frame the question this way: "Given your current financial circumstances, would spend $100,000 of your savings to go on on a space shuttle ride?".
I'd personally take the money. We could probably buy a ticket on a similar space shuttle ten years down the road for $20,000.
Who's that Ramsey guy?
My parents always pinched pennies and worked like dogs. Now barely retired, having paid off the house a couple weeks ago, they both can't drive, go on trips and my father is <possibly> on his death bed.
I agree that saving is not optional, but at some point you got to freaking enjoy life!
I wouldn't rule out taking a space shuttle ride at some point before I'm sixty years old, but I'd rather spend a few thousand dollars twenty years from now, and take one or both of my daughters along for the ride, than I would blow $100,000 today. If I owned my own consulting firm, then I would have more consideration for taking the trip today, because in addition to it being fun, it would also be an opportunity for publicity. I can see how a consultant would love to be known as "The DBA From Space".
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho