*heh* Money can’t buy happiness. It can, however, buy choices.
I was “on the edge” for about three years back in my late teens and early 20s. Only a ten speed for transportation; working two jobs; living in an apartment referred to by my friends as the “bear pit”; floating checks; one day from having the phone and/or electricity and/or heat turned off; and designing culinary masterpieces with Jiff corn bread, a can of beans and the last piece of turkey bologna.
It wasn’t all bad. But it’s amazing how much better that period has gotten, the further I move away from it in years. 😉
When you are “comfortable” …there is a little peace of mind knowing that someone ain’t gonna call you to ask when you’ll be making that next payment…? I used to get those. I hated them… but why on earth would you give an eighteen year old a credit card? Thankfully that debt is gone and that card was cut up into the tiniest little pieces!
Jiff corn bread…. and muffins! Food of the impoverished.
I once heard that if you think of yourself as poor, you’ll always be poor. Maybe Randie should start acting rich and ride a giraffe down the street :)?
It’s at times like this that I miss the European supermarkets we have in England (Lidl, Aldi and Netto). Decent stuff, at ridiculously cheap prices. My ex had the delightful idea of cooking pasta, and adding it to cream of tomato soup (less than 30 cents a can) with parmesan cheese and black pepper added. Cheap, filling, and it makes a change from ramen…
Even though it’s not as cheap to do it here in the USA, I still make it, using Campbell’s Creamy Tomato Soup. Tastes just as good, and very warming on a cold day 🙂
When I was growing up, we were so poor, I thought I.O.U.s were Legal Tender.
People often say that money can’t buy you happiness. I think this needs more testing: Anyone got a couple million dollars for research purposes?
*heh* Money can’t buy happiness. It can, however, buy choices.
I was “on the edge” for about three years back in my late teens and early 20s. Only a ten speed for transportation; working two jobs; living in an apartment referred to by my friends as the “bear pit”; floating checks; one day from having the phone and/or electricity and/or heat turned off; and designing culinary masterpieces with Jiff corn bread, a can of beans and the last piece of turkey bologna.
It wasn’t all bad. But it’s amazing how much better that period has gotten, the further I move away from it in years. 😉
When you are “comfortable” …there is a little peace of mind knowing that someone ain’t gonna call you to ask when you’ll be making that next payment…? I used to get those. I hated them… but why on earth would you give an eighteen year old a credit card? Thankfully that debt is gone and that card was cut up into the tiniest little pieces!
Jiff corn bread…. and muffins! Food of the impoverished.
I once heard that if you think of yourself as poor, you’ll always be poor. Maybe Randie should start acting rich and ride a giraffe down the street :)?
It’s at times like this that I miss the European supermarkets we have in England (Lidl, Aldi and Netto). Decent stuff, at ridiculously cheap prices. My ex had the delightful idea of cooking pasta, and adding it to cream of tomato soup (less than 30 cents a can) with parmesan cheese and black pepper added. Cheap, filling, and it makes a change from ramen…
Even though it’s not as cheap to do it here in the USA, I still make it, using Campbell’s Creamy Tomato Soup. Tastes just as good, and very warming on a cold day 🙂