I was hired by Google in 2005, single, no kids, no expensive hobbies, I basically didn't know how to spend money. So the bank account just kept growing and afte

I was hired by Google in 2005, single, no kids, no expensive hobbies, I basically didn't know how to spend money. So the bank account just kept growing and after 5 years I had enough for a down payment. In retrospect I often regret that I never once just randomly got on a plane and flew somewhere new for fun, when it would have been easy to do so. (Kind of hard now with two young children.) But if I'd done more of that maybe I wouldn't have saved so much money.