With 6 kids, I still pay off my student loans. I still pay my mortgage. I drive a used minivan. If you think I'm living high off the hog, I've got one paycheck.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Keep working and saving and striving for a better future for your children, and for their children, even if you won't be around to see it pay off.
With three kids, it was always very, very tight, and it was always a scramble for what was my next job. So I learned never to go into debt because I don't want those monthly payments to preoccupy my thoughts.
I live like most of the people in my district: paycheck to paycheck.
Sometimes I really need the money, really need to go straight to work. But if I had the absolute choice - money no object, my mortgage paid off - I'd really just work once or twice a year - but wouldn't everybody! - or at least do a different job sometimes.
Because of what I did when I was 10 years old, I'm not living from paycheck to paycheck, and I can do things because I want to do them.
I have enough money for the rest of my life and enough to leave a good inheritance for our kids.
Pay off your mortgage before retirement, and that's one less bill you'll have to worry about when you're on a fixed income.
I've lived so frugally for so long. I have to have that financial security or the world feels out of control for me.
We all need to save money to send our kids to college, to buy our first house, and to retire. But the truth is that most of us don't save very much.
I don't have a mortgage, I don't have a wife and I don't have kids, so I'm quite happy bumbling along.