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Originally Posted by Mr.HappySilp
Well if you want to save you going to have to make sacrifices. Is about what you want more. Is like that guy in the news a few months ago who paid off his mortgage in a matter of 5 years. He does OT everyday and work on weekends, never goes out for food, movies. Basically work his ass off and put every penny into his mortgage. Now is a debt free and can enjoy life. Depends on what you are willing to trade off.
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Sure would have sucked to have been hit by a truck and killed the day you paid your mortgage off. You'd have died debt free but not have done anything worth doing for your life.
I have a mortgage too, but manage to max out my TFSA and RRSPs every year and still live a life "worth living". Sacrifice is relative - I have a $15K car that I paid cash for instead of the $80K car with a payment that a lot of my peers have, but that's my "line in the sand."
All that to say that everybody has a balance of "enjoying now" to "enjoying later" but that ratio your gf sounds way off to me. But that's just me.
Mark