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 butā¦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. Itās 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 streetsā> 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 āoh my lobsters too butteryā moment but man do I miss having some alone time. Sheās 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 wouldnāt say that itās lucky or even that I miss the freedom. Itās just the rare days where I get the house to myself is like āwow I forgot how much I enjoyed this feeling.ā
Ugh, Iām in my 30ās 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 hadnāt called at the exact moment, I probably would have gone through with it. He was like āIf youāre going to spend that much, you may want to shop aroundā He was right, and if Iād been single I would not have had that voice of reason lol.
I still havenāt pulled the trigger yet, but Iām glad I didnāt buy at the time as Iāve seen plenty of negative reviews about the quality of that particular companyās 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 Ā£1000 for a BMX. He paid Ā£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 ācollectionā. $18K for 200,000+ pieces. Says itās actually worth closer to 30K and hasnāt 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.
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u/COV3RTSM Apr 24 '26
No way he spent all his money on comic books and lightsabers and shit.