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Originally Posted by Pensfan
I'm glad you said this, I was starting to feel really bad about myself. I've raised my kids, my wife is still here, I'm paying to put my kids through college right now, but my simplistic math skills tells me I've dumped a good bit into Vegas/casinos over my life and that that number likely tops $60K.
But the key takeaway from what you typed there is that your family was being provided for while you simultaneously had your fun in the casino.
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I mean, some Vegas trips alone are over $5K for me and I consider that likely a small weekend in Vegas by most gamblers standards.
If $60K is the line of demarcation for having a real Dr Phil worthy problem then I'm out.........
As with other threads, there is more than a mere number that enters into the calculus. The article in this thread is discussing a deadbeat who doesn't take care of his family and is sponging off of parents. In other words, as one comedienne once uttered in her routine..."a fortune...pissed away."
In your case, the case would be very different if you were out pissing money away while your kids and wife lacked for essential needs (and some wants) and the house was being foreclosed upon and you had nothing to fall back on for retirement.
Sure, a lot of people can look back at a lifetime of travel/vacation expenses and come up with a cringeworthy number just as can other people who have expensive hobbies. Lots of golfers have dropped more than the $60K across their life and have you priced flying as a hobby lately? There are reasons why wet-leasing by the hour can make a lot more sense than buying the plane outright despite the fact that there are plenty of single-engines in good shape for under $50K. However, the common denominator for a lot of those people is that they always took care of the family before spending on their hobby...