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To: Clappy who wrote (54348)	8/10/2002 11:30:15 AM
From: RR	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 65232

The power of vienna sausages..... Clappy Dude, I wonder how many people made a face when I mentioned barbecuing vienna sausage! Hee, hee, hee... what a hoot. Speaking of vienna sausage, I practice what I call a "Vienna Sausage Budget." I may have told ya'll this already. Ya'll know that I hate debt. I am an maniac about not owing anybody anything. Well, years ago when an issue would come up about us buying something or doing something that cost money, I'd tell people I can't do it because I'm on a vienna sausage budget. I told somebody that just last week in fact. I've told stories on here before about my past, and I'm not going to back track other than to say, Mrs. RR and I didn't have money. I learned from those years the hard way. I use to joke with Mrs. RR when money got tight that we could only go buy vienna sausages to eat. It meant we needed to tighten our belt a little bit more at that time. To this day, I still practice that philosophy whether I need to or not. I have a budget. If we get out of budget, it's vienna sausage time. I have two vienna sausage cans on top of my monitor. They have been there for years. A reminder..... But, I tell ya, as funny as it may seem, that "vienna sausage budget" helped me get where I am today in terms of financial freedom. RR