Living The Semi-Retired Life: Here's How I'm Saving My Money This Month Compared To The Filthy Rich
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With that said, something I think about from time to time.
People like to see illustrations of how much money rich people have. Or just people who have a lot more money than they do, even if they’re not technically rich.
We usually access this information via social media and stories about expensive real estate being bought and sold. Within a few blocks of where my girlfriend and I rent a below market rate Los Angeles apartment, celebrities (and people you and I have likely never heard of) routinely make multi-million dollar real estate transactions.
It’s another world. Right out my front door.
An even better way to gawk at obscene wealth on display is to pull up insider transactions for publicly-traded companies. That is stock bought and sold, most often via exercised stock options.
Doing this can make you feel financially small when you make the mistake of comparing it to your spending decisions and how much you’re able to save on a regular basis.
For example—
