We cleaned out a lot of our house when we moved last time. I think we gave away a couple of couches, countless bookshelves and other shelving type pieces of furniture, several garbage bags full of clothes and other miscellaneous stuff. It's amazing how much stuff you can collect over the years and when you step back and look at everything, you realize that you don't need most it.

Today, when people come over, they're amazed that we don't have a fancy flat screen TV, only a 27 inch tube TV that's around 10 years old. Other than our house we really don't have any debt and are living very comfortably and we would like to keep it that way.

I'm amazed that more people don't live within their means. A couple of times we had to let some of our credit card balance roll(we usually pay it all off every month) and it stressed me out. I can't imagine what it's like for people that live under thousands of dollars of credit card debt and keep spending outside their means.