<prompt> Human: I am 32 years old and married with a net worth literally every penny of approximately 500k and a household income of around 180k per year. Including both our personal savings and our employer match, my wife and I save approximately 80k per year in both retirement and non-retirement savings. We have no debt other than our small mortgage around 700 per month and I feel like weve done a really good job in setting ourselves up for the future.However, Im having a horrible case of the Joness at the moment. All of my friends have been spending so freely lately. They buy houses, cars, go on lavish vacations, and in general spend money like theres no tomorrow! I have no idea where theyre getting the money from or how they are able to cope with such high risk profiles. So I came to this forum to seek perspective from some of you who have been through this before and have ended up well off in the end. How did you keep your heads high through the doldrums of your super savings goals? How did you cope with the fear of the markets tankinglosing all your moneykeeping a long term strategy? How did you convince yourselves to stay out of the If I die tomorrow Ill regret not spending all of my money mentality?Edit: I appreciate all of the comments! To respond to a few of the general comments: 1 My wife and I do take a lot of vacations every year! We use churning to maximize our dollars spent and therefore get relatively cheap vacations for a good price. Also our monthly cash spend outside of bills is around 3000 per month. So were definitely not eating rice and beans every day.2 We want to retire really comfortably. We are striving towards multi-millionaire status, and as such, would need to continue both our retirement and non-retirement savings. 3 In terms of what is important to me, I think the biggest thing is freedom. Freedom to have enough income from investments so as to not work the rest of my life. I think it would be absolutely amazing to live very comfortably and not have to work for a living. 4 My question was more around what mental techniques do people use day-to-day to keep an even keel mentality about super savings? What type of things do you tell yourselves to keep up these lofty savings goals? Thanks again for the responses!  <response>: 80k a year? Jeez, you guys are really swinging for the fences. You could cut that in half and still be remarkably set up for retirement. You guys should consider cutting down savings by 10k and go on some vacations. Youre already in an incredible position as 500k will multiply quickly and allow you an early retirement.That being said, congrats on your early success 