re: How do people let themselves get into such dire straits financially?

Saving money is sssooo important, you never know what is going to pop up not only in your life but family and friends lives so I always try to save as much as possible. Also, it's great having a lot of cash at your disposal if the right investment opportunity pops up.

My lease is up at the end of this month and the landlord is selling so rather than moving into a new place I am staying at my moms, not with her because she lives at our condo in San Diego from May-October, but alone at her fully furnished house in a great area of Scottsdale. In the next 5 months I am going to add $25,000 to my savings. I could have not dealt with having to get a storage unit and only moved once instead of twice but why not add $25,000 in 5 months as opposed to my usual $10,000 over the same time frame? I have some friends that think I am crazy for doing it since they know I don't need to but they are also broke at the end of each month.