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Originally Posted by Skybird
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Originally Posted by Aramike
I'm doing the same things I always do. If people ever want this economy to get better, they should start doing that too.
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I take for granted that you can afford that. Many can't. |
Agreed, its not that i can no longer afford to live the way i have been.
But i recently sat down and had a talk with my grandfather who passed away last week.
He spoke about how everyone would get together and eat dinner on a monday night or tuesday night and you would basically eat that food all week.
He told me about how he saved money for years, a little here and a little there so he could buy his own house.
"We didnt mess with a mortgage" he said
"I found this place, liked it, and paide $8,500 cash for it years and years ago." its the only place i have ever known him to live.
I got him on the subject of credit cards
"well buddy..." he said
"you might as well just pay someone to rob you. personally i think they ought to be outlawed."
what he had to say on the subject really struck home with me.
Americans... in fact
most people in todays
world simply throw away money when we should be living more Spartanly and saving up our money.
@ chad... i completely understand where you were coming from
