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Family thinks our goals are crazy

March 22nd, 2007 at 03:07 pm

I want to save 38K in order to take a year off work and study the language in a foreign country, backpack around lake Baikal and Siberia and do other fun things.

My family thinks that these are the years when we should be working (and earning the most) having a baby... They think it is insane to risk loosing great jobs that we have.

What is so wrong with wanting to buy a year of your life when you are young -- to live in total freedom, going wherever the wind blows.
Why is this crazy, but buying a new car for the same 38K is OK? Isn't a year of one's youth worth more than a car?

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14 Responses to “Family thinks our goals are crazy”

  1. robex Says:
    March 22nd, 2007 at 03:16 pm 1174576612
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    Go for it! This is certainly the time to do it...you won't be able to once you have kids! I wish dh and I had travelled more before our 3 babies came along.

    I love the comparison of a year's worth of your youth to a new car. How true!

  2. threebeansalad Says:
    March 22nd, 2007 at 03:42 pm 1174578151
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    Go for it! Sounds like a fantastic trip.
    Have you read
    "Siberian Dawn: A Journey Across the New Russia" and / or
    "River of No Reprieve: Descending Siberia's Waterway of Exile, Death, and Destiny" by Jeffrey Tayler? Both are currently on my "to read" list. I assume you've been to Russia before? I have been to Ukraine, but not Russia.

  3. campfrugal Says:
    March 22nd, 2007 at 03:52 pm 1174578740
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    Now is the time to do those things you want. You never know when our time on earth here is done. I say, live your own dreams, not others.

  4. fairy74 Says:
    March 22nd, 2007 at 04:29 pm 1174580947
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    Here's the deal, it's your life, do what you want, not what other think you should be doing....sounds like a great idea...also about having kids I think it is way better to do the things you want to do before having kids, I've known a lot of people who felt bitter when they had kids too soon...

  5. Ima saver Says:
    March 22nd, 2007 at 05:07 pm 1174583230
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    We did that the year I turned 40. Moved to the mountains with no jobs, built our own house and living on our savings. Best year of our lives!

  6. Fern Says:
    March 22nd, 2007 at 06:29 pm 1174588154
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    campfrugal and fairy said it pretty well.

    They'll be plenty of time for the kids thing, if that's what you want, later on. Pursue your dreams.

  7. Sunshine Suz Says:
    March 22nd, 2007 at 07:44 pm 1174592651
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    Ditto what everybody else is saying.

    I wish I would have had the guts to follow some of my dreams when I was in my 30's...and not listened to what the family "thought" was the right thing to do.

    Go for it! And have fun.

  8. creditcardfree Says:
    March 22nd, 2007 at 08:00 pm 1174593643
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    You are doing an awesome thing that you will never regret. They are probably jealous!! Have fun!

  9. Nic Says:
    March 22nd, 2007 at 09:27 pm 1174598839
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    Follow your heart. Don't live a life of shoulda,woulda,coulda!
    I retired early,moved to the SW,took a p/t job at a clinic and I've not regretted a moment of it! Go catch your dreams. It'll be well worth it.

  10. monkeymama Says:
    March 22nd, 2007 at 11:39 pm 1174606765
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    Agreed to the above. Why is it acceptable to take time off of a career to have children but for nothing else? That is what I don't get lately? PArticularly if you are self-sufficient, no debt, etc. wHo cares???

    Have you read "Tales of a Female Nomad?" by, Rita Golden Gelman? The tale of a writer actually who travels the world with little material goods and no home. Absolutely fascinating - think you would enjoy. & yes her family think she is crazy too. Wink But she has had more life experience than all of us combined.

  11. T_I_N_A20 Says:
    March 23rd, 2007 at 12:43 am 1174610620
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    I totally agree with you. I admire you for taking a big risk and I hope to do that someday =D.

  12. Fern Says:
    March 23rd, 2007 at 01:12 pm 1174655566
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    well said, monkeymama.

  13. Sunshine Suz Says:
    March 26th, 2007 at 06:27 pm 1174933622
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    After Monkey Mama suggested that book....I thought of another one about a woman, leaving it all behind for one year to find herself.
    It is "Eat, Pray, Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert.

  14. debtfreeme Says:
    April 3rd, 2007 at 04:37 pm 1175618242
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    i dream of doing this and am slowly working toward making this happen. I am not sure how old you are but go for it!

    And learning and perfecting another language through living somewhere other than going to school may make you more profitable in the future careers.

    you only live once, live for yourself.

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