This Christmas our little one had put an Ipod touch on her list. She’s been doing really good in school so we were thinking of getting one for her. I asked hubby what he thought about it. He asked me why I would go out and spend that kind of money when he could get the same thing cheaper. You see Sprint came out with the IPhone and her contract for her phone is up. He said he can get one for $100.00. This made me happy. I get to save money. What I failed to realize is not if he has anything to do with it. He doesn’t tell you that by the time you get done buying a car charger, and a good IPhone case so that it doesn’t break you only save @$30.00. I couldn’t believe it when he told me how much this case costs that he wants on the phone. So I was wondering if it was worth doing it if I am only saving $30.00. He says its a better deal than getting her the IPod Touch, but I’m still not sure. I even asked her if she could chose which one would she pick thinking this would help me. I don’t know what I was thinking by doing that because she now wants both. We asked her why she needed both. In being fair we told her to put one or the other on her list. She got upset with us and said she needed both because you cant listen to music and talk on the phone at the same time. Life is so hard when your 12 and you can’t get every thing you want.
My hubbys Uncle L comes to visit us from time to time. When he does he sometimes bring some wisdom with him. I said sometimes. The last time he came up he was complaining that he made a very unwise decision to not invest in a few things that are now worth quite considerable money. A few of them were Gold, and Silver. I can understand because money is hard to come by with our economy. Having a solid investment is wise at this point. If you have the money, then find a way to invest it. After we were talking he mentioned that some dollar coins like the Morgan dollars are made of solid silver. Things that are made of solid items are worth far more than plated items. We told him that with our money plan we don’t have a way to invest in much right now. I wish we could invest in something that is solid money, but we invest in the “Now.” Things like family, house, vacations… Those are how we invest.
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Over the years of driving to Disney World it has opened my eyes to many things. One of them being hubbys need for speed. I also found out that no matter what state you get a ticket in a lawyer from that state will send you letters offering their services. When he got a ticket in VA. for speeding we got 4 letters from lawyers by the time we got back from vacation. The best was when he got a ticket in N.C. we must have gotten 10 or more letters from Raleigh lawyers offering to help him. I guess they figure it’s a long drive and if you cant afford the points you will just pay. Most of the time he just pays the ticket off. I find myself telling him that it would be cheaper to take a plane or train to FL. I asked him what the rush is to get there so fast anyway it’s not like Disney is going anywhere anytime soon. Think of all the trees he would save if he did the speed limit and all these lawyers don’t have to send him letters. Maybe they should find a way to go green at these lawyer firms. Ask the police to get an email address when they give a ticket.
