Totally agree. I used to be a bit of a penny pincher but the wife and I together are quite comfortable and since I don't have kids, when we pass on they are likely to get a substantial inheritance. My thinking is we should spend whatever we want to enjoy ourselves right now. Their dad, her ex, is very well off and will also leave them a lot, so if she passes first I may just change the trust and leave it all to charity. Lol.
This may be a re-run of a past story. My aunt and uncle, every Wednesday, for years after they retired, had lunch at the Montgomery Wards cafeteria. In their 80s, they had lunch one Wednesday, and after lunch went to the men's shoe department to get my uncle some new dress shoes. The salesman measured his feet, then said he'd be a couple of minutes in the the back stockroom looking for shoes in my uncle's size. My uncle turned to my aunt and said that while they waited for the salesman, he'd take a short snooze; the large lunch had made him sleepy. When the salesman arrived with the shoes, my uncle had passed away. When my aunt told me what had happened, I struggled not to laugh. He was 84 and died with no pain, illness, hospice, etc. He died quietly, peacefully in the f-ing Monkey Wards shoe department. God rest his soul and sole.
Today, I was thinking about that uncle. About a year before he died, he and my aunt decided to buy a new car. They had trouble! I think the car they wanted was an early 80s Cadillac Cimarron. The problem was my uncle was terrified of driving an automatic transmission. Every car he'd ever had was a stick shift. Ultimately, they special ordered and got the car they wanted, stick shift and no radio. I asked my aunt why no radio. Her reply: "No one listens to the radio when they are driving."
