@seawulf575 yes! Now, I don’t have a mortgage, because I’ve never been able to afford to buy a house, and I don’t think I ever will, so I rent. But we sold our parents’ house last fall and I finally got my share of the inheritance early this year.
Mind you, it wasn’t nearly as much as I had hoped for, and I’m hoping it will be sufficient to get me through to retirement. So, I’m not going crazy with buying stuff, but it’s such a relief not to have to question whether I’m buying much needed paper towels one week as opposed to much needed toilet paper because my money’s so tight. And being able to treat myself every once in awhile to something is a nice feeling! I’ve also paid off a lot of bills that I was slowly whittling away at before I got the inheritance money. It was such a good feeling to pay them off completely in one fell swoop, and think about all the money I was saving by not having the interest to pay.
I can think of some other really satisfying things, but that’s definitely been one that happened to me recently.