Did I tell you my daughter made me rich? And it did not cost a cent.
A few years ago when James let me take over the bill paying again, I noticed money was tight. I kept taking money out of the Money Market account until that was all gone. Then I started cutting back. Reduced our channels on Direct TV, started asking the doctors for free samples of the meds we take to cut down on medicine expense, even started cooking at home more, (yuck). Yes, most of us, at sometime in our lives, have been poor enough to know how to do this even though we might not want to. Finally faced up to the fact that our monthly income simply was not enough to cover the way we like to live. I was telling our daughter, Missy, this and she asked about the CD’s that used to be in the bank, did we still have them and couldn’t we dip into theses? I said yes, we still had them but I did not want to use them – I was saving them until we got old and might need the money. Her mouth started twitching and then she chuckled and then the full blown throw her head back and laugh. And then I joined her. Okay, so we were old and needed the money; the time had come; I just hadn’t noticed it. Son of a Gun!!!!
So now about every six months I take out some money and add it to the bank account to be used in our regular life. It really works out well since we are required to take out a certain amount from the IRA’s.
Aren’t our children wonderful?
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