I make less than $50k, support myself, my wife, and putting her through another 2 yrs of college. I rent a house, have her 04' car payments, mines paid for, I own 2 motorcycles, college loan payment, and I've been on 3 small-ish vacations this year, plus already put down money on a Vegas vacation this winter. We're seriously looking at a house(about $200k+ range) in the next 9 months as we have a very nice savings that can easily be used for down-payment and what's left will supplement on the mortgage payments until she graduates in May.

It's not just about the "amount" of money you make, it's about how you spend it. I don't go buying stuff just because. Everything I buy has to be able to be paid for in short order.

So I guess that whole not making any financial sense thing must not be working for me. Then again, I don't work for an airline either, and I'm home most nights, wife just went with me last week down to FL for recurrent training, and our business has actually picked up recently.....go figure.