RM> > That's from an older person's perspective. If you're young the
  > > larger amount may be going towards buying a house or something
  > > if the person is at all practical.

AR>I have been pumping all my excess money into investments prety much
  >from day one myself. I don't think I would have used 250,000 EUR much
  >differently when I was 18 than now. That said I think I count as young
  >in this net.

Before I moved off on my own, just before turning 18, I was already
putting some spare cash into investments. I've always told people
who wonder how I managed to get by that the trick is to start early,
and then you have money working for you making more money..

Granted, investments can go up and down, or if you're fairly careful
make a good return or less of one, but the past couple of years
I'm at the point where, if I were taking the income from my funds,
I'd be getting 3 times the money from there that my pension pays.

I rarely touch that money though. I leave it alone to grow.
Some day I may need it. A decent senior's care facility could
easily charge 3 or 4 times a month what my pension pays.

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