Net worth before you can "afford" $500 shoes? - Page 3

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The complete answer to this thread: If you don't care about shoes, you won't buy $500+ no matter what you're worth. If you have some minor interest in shoes for whatever reason, you may find yourself buying $500+ shoes when it becomes a sufficiently low % of your liquid worth. If you have a considerable interest in high quality shoes, you will buy $500+ shoes even if that's a large % of your liquid worth. If you have an obsession with high quality shoes, you will buy $500+ as soon as you have $500 to spend. FIN

Well quite simply, my answer (and everyone else's answer) would depend on which category I fit in out of the four general categories listed above. How are you not seeing that?

There is no relation between "net worth" and a pair of $500 shoes. If the shoes are going to make you more presentable before clients then they in the long run will be an asset. If the shoes are going to make you presentable before chicks then they are an asset. If you have to ask this question perhaps it is time to go off on you own and reach deep down inside and make a decision to buy the shoes.

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Have you been opening my bank statements?

The OP's question is strange.
'Afford' is a measure of disposable income.
Once necessities are covered, any disposable money can be spent on whatever you like.
That's why it's disposable.

In that case the correct answer to the question is:

A man can afford to spend $500 on shoes as soon as he has $500 in disposable income.

Beyond that what we are talking about is a matter of priorities:
"I have paid all my bills and have $500 left, will I spend it on shoes or on a weekend to Berlin?"

It depends on what you prefer at that precise moment in time.

If I had $1000 in the bank and had just landed a $500,000 a year job, it would be trivial to buy the shoes. If I had $10,000 in the bank and had just lost my job, it would be utterly stupid to buy the shoes. Circumstances matter at least as much as "net worth."

The question depends so massively on individual circumstances that we might as well just type random numbers >500 for all the meaning they'll have. That is, unless people feel like describing their complete financial situation, including assets and income, and their spending priorities. Think anyone will volunteer for that?

Why didn't you just ask, 'what percentage of your disposable income do you spend on shoes'? Instead of all this bullshit, 'wuld u fink this dood is a jackass cus he spended 500 big ones on kicks?' I spend roughly $600 on shoes per $5000-6000 disposable cash I have.

"In your opinion, what should a guy's liquid net worth be before he can "afford" $500 shoes?"

I think what you are getting at is what each person's idea is, not what that person thinks someone else's worth should be. So you're asking the wrong question to begin with. I don't give a shit what someone else spends on anything.

Oh please........ This is an idiotic question which I attempted to show some respect for. What are the shoes worth to you. That is the real question. I set my parameters in my previous answer. I agree.

I figure the present value of someone buying my Alden ravello boots in 10 years is like $1k, so I think I profited $300 by buying them now