Join the discussion and meet other Mumsnetters on our free online chat forum. I'll be completely honest here. I think as you get more, your aspirations for the life you want for you and your family stretch, and you end up always wanting a bit more than what you have.
I think about having enough money that we could just go on a luxury family holiday whenever we wanted without having to budget for it. I think it's just human nature. Following as interested in responses! Also depends what you mean by wealthy? We live a reasonably nice life in London, but we have to go to work for it. Also I have noticed I struggle with spending money more than my husband.
Even though we can afford things I still get anxious spending. Living in a smallish modern house with just my husband, probably in central London. Sitting in the same room as him more than once a week. Having not much space to keep tidy. No sprawl to maintain and rota of workmen, no need for a labelled key box for all the doors and windows, no cleaner or gardeners to organise, no complex insurance, no visitors or other entertaining.
Ditto the same thing abroad but with pool maintenance as well. I appreciate the diamond shoes and they don't pinch but the organisation of it all is exhausting. ThatFuckingPaddington Love that! Log in to update your newsletter preferences. Reasonably well off… but I dream that I never developed long covid so I could be as active as I used to be. I dream that DC1 recovers from injury to not need wheelchair and not be in pain. I dream that DC2 recovers from MH issues to live an independent adult life.
I have all the wealth I could possibly want; happiness, experience, big family, health and that 'money thing'. I dream of being young again. Of going to university, something I never did. I dream of being the geek that finds cures for cancer. Or maybe I could become the agronomist who finds ways for communities in Africa to prosper. I dream of dating again in those days when I walked to a red telephone box to talk.
