That is familiar... I'm 30 and i tend to think of my savings in terms of lasting the rest of my life, even though i don't plan to live on them. I quit a fallin

That is familiar... I'm 30 and i tend to think of my savings in terms of lasting the rest of my life, even though i don't plan to live on them. I quit a falling apart job a year ago, and was staying above break even on odd opportunities and contracts. At first i pretty much stopped spending anything extra at all, and it was rather unpleasant. A few months in, it kind of passed - as an engineering person it was quite fun for me to make things on minimal budget and fix broken stuff off cheap garage sales. So, it takes some time to adapt to the change.