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mgardener

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35. Married in 78

Fri Dec 28, 2012, 12:21 PM

Dec 2012

We both had good jobs and made enough money to bank one pay check and like on the other!
We saved and had the concrete and wood plank book shelves and used furniture.
Then our kids came along.....
We scrimped but took a vacation every year.
We are OK now that my husband is retired and I am disabled.
Knowing what I know now I wished we had saved more. And bought a lot less.
I do buy on credit but pay it off almost immediately. On line banking is great for paying down bills/debt.

We were lucky. We moved to a rural area and were not so caught up in the rat race and having to have bigger and better.
Know we did it right by our kids, all 3 told us that have everything thing they need and not to buy them Christmas presents!!!!

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