Elon Musk, Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and too many more to list are all Billionaires yet they still go to work doing something they love, They're not putting in 8-10 hour days 5 days a week but these are people that are "financially free".I'm always curious as to what people plan on doing once they are "financially free", most will say travel the world, but it you retire at 35, you'll run out of travel destinations over the next 60 years traveling several times a month before you hit that 95th birthday if that's the only thing on the agenda.

LOL It did give me a good kick in the pants, though, it made me realize that I really have to put more work into learning what I need to learn if I want to get into this business of investing.I'm sick of this business of living paycheck-to-paycheck and never having enough money for when things come up, or to go on vacations, or to buy gifts for friends and family on birthdays and such.

In 6 months they broke 3 light fixtures - I had reports their kids were spraying a garden hose from the outside of the house into the kitchen, broke a large kitchen cabinet door, broke several plastic pieces of a new higher end Fridge, fist sized hole in the wall, carpet stains and the entire house may need another repaint, damaged woodwork, scratched kitchen cabinets, stole the curtain rods, curtains my wife spent a lot of time picking out stolen, destroyed the back yard - let the weeds grow several feet tall in the flower beds etc.  

I was working as a bartender and she had saved every single birthday, christmas, graduation, etc. gift I had ever gotten for this moment.

For 8 years we sacrificed by eating out only on birthdays, no coffee, $1000 max budget for Christmas (family of 5), driving my 2001 Acura MDX for going on 12 years, and zero vacations.

I put them in pretty envelopes and play off the excitement someone may have for opening up a birthday card or invitation or some kind. 

We just went out for my birthday with my in laws.

I use to save my birthday money, small jobs, then all the way through my college (I was lucky and my parents paid for my education) so I used all the money I made from serving towards my first house.

But they also include birthday parties, kids playing outside and families welcoming new babies home.

Similar for the desert flowers in good years (last year was outstanding and this year looks like it could be outstanding).