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To me, money is not about buying things; it's about having options. The more money you have, the more latitude that you have to do the things you want, avoid crises, face them head-on, or simpy be yourself without kow-towing to others.
My wife and I have done well, but we drive 12- and 13-year-old cars. Traveling's not that important, so we don't take expensive vacations, either. We've paid off our house instead. We still worry about the future, but if worse came to worse and we lost our jobs and insurance -- we'd have plenty of time to retrain into something else. I've been off work for 18 months, retraining for another career, and we've barely felt it.
Now that's worth a lot more to me than the latest consumer trinkets or a giant SUV with OnStar. And it is true -- the more stuff you own, the more it all owns you.
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