I would not advise people to buy a car or house without making a list. You will probably improve your intuitions by making a list and then sleeping on it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Buy with your heart, not your head. You can look at all the aspects that make a purchase practical, but that kind of thinking makes it an investment rather than a home.
When you get divorced, you have to go through this awful thing of listing everything you own. When you actually sit down and write the list, you realize that the only good investments are art and property.
We each own one car, and we have a reasonable house. It's a lovely place to be, but it's not extravagant.
I think I'm pretty smart on what I spend my money on. I still don't have a new car, I drive my old car that I've had forever. But I bought a house in downtown Chicago.
I had the notion that, OK, so now we have all of this wealth, we could buy not only one expensive car, we could buy all of them. As soon as you realize that you could buy all of them, then none of them are particularly interesting or satisfying.
In life, you need a house and a car. After that, you have a choice.
I never buy a house thinking that I'm going to sell it.
Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can't comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there's no life and love inside.
We like lists because we don't want to die.
I don't buy cars I can't drive.
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