If you have investments, let’s treat those as liquid cash for the sake of argument. Otherwise, the assumption is that you’re not selling property or possessions, but continuing to live as you do now.

  • AA5B@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    A couple months, but

    Basically I’ve been saving up for years to redo a leaky moldy bathroom. That wouldn’t get done. Maybe ever

    I’ve saved what I could to pay for my kids college. I could ruin their entire future to stay alive

    I’m coming up in retirement age with way too little savings. I’ve finally able to put aside enough to catch up a little bit I guess that would go pretty quickly too