How Much Money Makes You Rich?

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25 cents.

25 cents plus 25 billion smackers.

all the money in the world can't make you rich, but it does help!
live how you want to be, and the rest will fall into place.

Hard to say. So I easily live with 1000 EUR in the month, its sufficient for my everyday cost and my hobbies. But because of my countries laws, there is also an health insurance already included, and a small rent insurance. So for US standards you had to add this to the 1000 EUR. Whats left I am saving to rebuilt the old house, I live in.

ok, if i wanna live in a clifftop abode above pacific beach [washington coast] but lack the duckies to make that happen or the means to get the duckies to pay for such] then how will i be able to live "how i want to be"? how will the rest "fall into place"? enquiring minds want to know.

Simply by stopping to think about dreams, accepting reality as borders of your wishes, and then choosing the best possible solution. If you choose to live on the moon, when you cant to so, its your fault as well because of you dreaming instead of thinking of the best possible option to make you as happy, as you can.

If it was about dreamland and fairytales, I would like to have my own pacific island with noone on it but me and my partner I´d earn my money by writing books or something else, I can do alone on my computer, and the rest of the day I would grow veggies and catch fish. This would be my absolute dream, but you dont need dreams to be happy, reality allows you to be happy as well.

So I dont have my own island, but I live in a small, peaceful village, with a small river right behind my house. The house is very old, and we needed to renew everything. Doors, windows, roof, wet walls, heating, water supply, sewers, ... Still we could live in it from the first moment, and whenever some money is left, we renew the next part. Because its so old, there are lots of small buildings in the garden, so a small room where you cooked your cloths by hands in earlier days, a small wooden house for the gardening stuff and so on... They are linked with walls as it was custom in earlier days, so I dont get to see my neighbors. ^^The front side itself is closed by the house and at the fourth side is the small river with a field behind it and a small hill with a forest and behind that there are only two farms I dont see anyway. The field is only for hay supply, so the farmers are only working on it about 6 days in the year.

Sure, a tropical island would still be much better, and the old house sometimes drives me mad when you want to renew something, and then you find again 12 other things you need to renew as well, you didnt know before and having a real holiday at home and not an "renewing the house by holiday" would be nice. But when the sun shines and I sit in my garden, reading a book or watching the cat catching her fifth mouse on the field, then maybe I am not supersupersupersuperhappy. But being happy is ok as well. And carrying building material keeps you sporty. ^^

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wow you sound like you have a heavenly situation, with a mate and all. that will be grist for my dreams at night. instead of counting sheep i will meditate on what type of earthly happiness you have, or a similar version.

How much is that in Simoleons?

Enough so you don't have to work another day in your life? Who knows the current criteria.

to Fnord- 2, 500, 000, 000, 025 pennies.
to BooToMostStuff, it would be prudent to factor in the usual nouveau riche wants when figuring out how much one needs to feel rich. unless, of course, one were an ascetic.

H.G. Wells disagrees with you first statement.
The country of the Blind by H.G. Wells tells a very different story on that.

So many people have the option to never work again if they just scale back their possessions and standards of living. That's why I think a hard number is in order.

That raises for me the issue of purchasing power. The equivalent ~$1,300 a month here is considered insufficient, even though most of the U.S. is cheaper than most places in the eurozone. People can and have lived happily on $1,300 a month, but culturally, I think many Americans want better for themselves.

At least $50 in my bank account.

We are rich. Hubby brings home a little less than $50K a year. Fantabulously wealthy, in comparison to the fact that Daddy made about $36K a year when he retired after 30 years in the mines.

We own our home and cars. We have food on our plates and food in the pantry. There are kid toys and grownup toys coming out our ears, and books everywhere. We even have a little discretionary spending money and enough savings for a good used car. There's wealth on the monetary front.

The garden is coming along good this year.

We're all healthy; I just wish Hubby would learn portion control, stop being so very sedentary, and start working on losing the 100 extra pounds he's carrying.

I'm not very happy, but it is better than it used to be.

I just met another neighbor yesterday. That makes four-- and three of them aren't afraid of me.

It looks like the people we're talking to about help for my son have their heads on straight.

I am taking the kids to see my side of the family for Easter. We have relatives that will let us crash in their houses. I'm making pecan pie for Easter dinner. I have a good bottle of whiskey that I've been invited to share with my aunt and uncle and cousins.

We are wildly, unimaginably rich. Other than the depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress, it really doesn't get any better than this.

Any amount of money that would allow me to deal with the outside world on my own terms.