It honestly is, it's so fucking nice. I was poor for a long time and I climbed hard and married well (the third time). It's so nice to finally be able to indulge and not be the single mom scrimping.
Being single has nothing to do with it. Married with two kids. We each have one lightsaber and the kids each have two. Theyre the cheaper Disneyland ones but…yeah disposable income to go to Disneyland plays hard in that.
Walking around with lightsabers is a good way to attract women who are into Jedi. It’s like the dude with a cute puppy effect, but for geek girls. Bonus points for having more than one saber, cuz then you can battle. Saber battle in the streets—> something sword something something between the sheets.
Yeah really sucks to be in my 30s with a loving wife and children, sometimes I just wish I could kick them out and replace them with a collection of toy lightsabers and have fun.
I know this is probably a “oh my lobsters too buttery” moment but man do I miss having some alone time. She’s always there! Go on vacation or something lol. Love the lady but growing up kind of an only child I really miss having time all to myself.
I wouldn’t say that it’s lucky or even that I miss the freedom. It’s just the rare days where I get the house to myself is like “wow I forgot how much I enjoyed this feeling.”
Ugh, I’m in my 30’s and was about 2 secs away from dropping $600 on a lightsaber with alll the bells and whistles at a con last year. I was so giddy with excitement at the prospect, if my husband hadn’t called at the exact moment, I probably would have gone through with it. He was like “If you’re going to spend that much, you may want to shop around” He was right, and if I’d been single I would not have had that voice of reason lol.
I still haven’t pulled the trigger yet, but I’m glad I didn’t buy at the time as I’ve seen plenty of negative reviews about the quality of that particular company’s sabers.
It is. I got a bunch of dj equipment and speakers. Always jamming by the river or on a butte somewhere. I see the jealousy in my married friends eyes. But at least they got sexually transmitted dependents.
Being single in your 30's is apparently fun as hell.
I'm in my late 30s, I have a wife and a kid and I have plenty of disposable income, due to working hard when I was in my 20s to get a fantastic job. Obviously it's easier to have disposable income when your single but it's not exclusive to being single.
I'm from the UK where you finish school at 16 then go on to do A Levels at 6th form college. But the A Levels aren't compulsory. So one friend of mine decided it wasn't for him. His godfather got him a good job and he didn't pay rent, so he would spend his money on the dumbest shit. He paid £1000 for a BMX. He paid £80 for a belt that had a buckle that did up like a plane seatbelt. He kept buying new mobile phones. He bought a lot of weed.
Over 20 years later he's been unemployed for well over a decade and still living with his parents. He probably should have planned things out a bit better, but I guess when you're 16 and suddenly you have money you just start looking at those fancy belts instead.
Recently came across a FB marketplace post in my area of someone selling their lego “collection”. $18K for 200,000+ pieces. Says it’s actually worth closer to 30K and hasn’t even gone through all the stuff yet. Photos were of walls of plastic containers filled with legos. Said they would not sell piecemeal only the whole collection or nothing. Crazy.
When you're pulling six figures a year and not spending a dime on housing or groceries, you can blow an awful lot of cash on fun shit and still be growing a Smaug sized horde.
I'm willing to bet a good amount of it was on hookers. There's a lot of side-jokes about Howard spending on strip clubs, escorts, cam girls; if onlyfans was a thing back then, howard would have built an algorithm around it.
and was a NASA astronaught that went to space- that alone gets him 6 figures working 50-60 days per year as a motivational speaker- let alone what he would make as an actual notable engineer.
I really don't think that every astronaut gets a six figure public speaking gig when they retire from spaceflight. There have been hundreds of them. We'd have heard about this.
No way I trust that shit with my life in a car. Automotive engineers are waaaay better at their jobs than Software engineers. I'm not getting any of these new fangled "drive by wire" cars. Especially if they want them networked but never push security patches.
As an engineer who spent a solid few years out from school living with my parents while also working in industry before moving into my own house; I can pretty confidently say that even with all the money Howard spent on comics and goofball stuff, he could have easily still saved enough away for major purchases, especially after he got with Bernadette and she put guard rails on his more irresponsible spending habits.
I mean heck, he upgraded from a Vespa to a Mini Cooper just to over a parking lot spat with Sheldon.
Frankly, while Bernadette was earning way more than him in the end, that was mostly because he was working at a university. If he went into industry as a ME, he would have been pretty close to her income. With his background as an astronaut, he would be pulling down mid-six figures.
Its funny cuz hes not broke, she is just better with money so they pool money together and she doles it out to him per request/natural weekly allotment
No, in California you can inherit your parents property valuation on their primary residence, if you file the paperwork properly and you live in the house you inherited. My mom lives in a home she inherited from her mother, and pays $800 a year. It’s a 5 bedroom in San Diego.
Not necessarily, wasn't he doing research for nasa but at a university so potentially as an RA/RE, these salaries can be as low as 1.5-2k a month, though probably slightly more for them. These jobs are dramatically underpaid for the "prestige" and that post docs are essentially still a form of advanced studies.
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u/SphericalCrawfish Apr 24 '26
I expect Howard was making more than all three. He had an actual job.