A “Your Money or Your Life changed my life” story

A participant in the current Discover Your Enough Point class wrote this when he signed up:

Back in 1993 after I got out of college I got a job making good money and lived with my folks.  I blew every cent and just had fun!  I wouldn’t call it fast living but I sure didn’t keep anything extra around.

But a few years later when I went to go to grad school (And would get a huge bump in income when I was done) I realized how little I had to show for all my effort.   And I never wanted it to happen again. So in my last few months of grad school I read every book on money I could find.  Some were crazy (Day trading, commodities, etc) others simple common sense.

Thats when I read YMOYL.