It's the Moopy and Mopey Show

I felt it! Just driving home from the grocery store a few minutes ago. On a whim I drove up into a neighborhood in our town I had never noticed before. It was gorgeous! Big houses on big lots with professional landscaping and inground pools on a couple of quiet cul-de-sacs. We've explored our town a lot over the years, and not much of it is fancy. How could I have missed these streets?! Now I started to feel envy! And regret. Why HADN'T we bought a house in this area 5 years ago when we were tentatively looking, before deciding to continue renting our modest apartment and invest our dough in liquid assets instead? Those houses probably doubled, even tripled in value in that time period. AND we could have been entertaining our family and friends in style all this time.

The emotions were overwhelming; I even came home and spilled to Mopey about my feelings. He shrugged and patiently reminded me that no one has a crystal ball, and everyone has regrets at times about where they put their money. No one's perfect, or always lucky. And HE at least is happy he never had to do any yard work, pump out a flooded basement, or spend the weekend running back and forth to Home Depot while trying to build a deck or fix a toilet. Well, I had to admit THAT makes sense. Besides the frustration factor, Mopey wouldn't have had time to invest our money the way we have been so successfully. There's really no free lunch and there are only 24 hours in a day.

Those emotions sure can get ahold of you and make your decisions for you sometimes. Be careful out there!

-Moopy