Thanks, Bob. That is an amazing parallel with my experience. Somebody once said, "The best way to have money is for your parents not to have any." My parents didn't, although all my siblings turned out to be terrible financially, too.
And it's always been easy for me and my wife to live at well below our income level, both detesting debt. We helped all three of our kids get through college with no debt.
A couple decades ago, I had a new furnace put in, just a couple years after 9-11 and that recession and Nasdaq bubble pop, and one of the muscle men commented to me, "I feel sorry for rich people. Every day, they have to worry about keeping what they got. I ain't got nothing, and I sleep like a baby."
I'd rather not be paycheck to paycheck like that, but I have certainly learned with my bones what he meant. A few days during the crash and bounce, I've seen changes in PF that I never thought I'd see. |
