Last winter, we started house hunting. Our financial situation had improved and we thought, it's time! We're real adults, we deserve grass and a basement with a dusty treadmill, dammit!
We worked everything out to the last dollar. We would keep the condo and rent it out. We'd have two properties before we turned 30! That's how you know you're successful, right? But the closer we got to closing on the deal, the more anxious I got. What if one of us loses their job? What if we have to deal with awful tenants? Is it worth signing up for all those extra years of working? So we bailed. And here we find ourselves, six months later. Last week, I found out that our office receptionist was being laid off after four years. This news hit hard. If such a valued member of the office could be laid off in the blink of an eye - why not me? A modern day memento mori, indeed. Because we didn't buy a house, we know that we can weather almost any financial storm. This removes the burden of financial worry. I think most insurance is a rip-off - but I believe strongly in the insurance of having low-expenses and a strong savings cushion.
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