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Why on earth is a budget a bad thing?
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<blockquote data-quote="Signorina" data-source="post: 574234"><p>Lisa - my grandmother was a HUGE stasher. Of course, she would be have just turned 99 last week (she died in 1993) and she lived through the Depression and in a time when women frequently didn't have their own money. Her mother taught her to stash and she learned the lesson well. It was her "just in case" money - especially if she ever wanted to leave my grandpa (they were happily married until the day she died) She always told my mom & my uncle - in the event of her death - to make sure they checked every drawer, pocket, purse, nook and cranny before they threw anything away. When she was alive, one would frequently open an unused sugar bowl, or tucked away gift box and find a wad of bills - new or old.</p><p></p><p>She died in 1993, and my grandpa died in 2007. 4 years ago, I received their old chest - a piece my grandpa had used after he sold their house & moved to an apartment before he died. It had been sitting in my Uncle's garage since '07. It was dirty and dusty and I removed the drawer to clean it. Under the felt drawer lining, I found $242 in $20 & $10 bills from the 1970s.(and a sheet of 6 cent stamps from 1968-71?) </p><p></p><p>A few months later, H and I took my mom out to a swanky restaurant for her birthday (right after my dad died) and paid for the dinner with grandma's money as a surprise and told her it was a gift from her mom. The bill coincidentally was almost the exact same amount as the money we found. Kismet.</p><p></p><p>Thanks for evoking that wonderful memory of my grandma. I wish I inherited the "stash gene". I try to use cash, but when I don't spend "this week's$20 allotment", I just forgo taking out next weeks...I should really start stashing it instead!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Signorina, post: 574234"] Lisa - my grandmother was a HUGE stasher. Of course, she would be have just turned 99 last week (she died in 1993) and she lived through the Depression and in a time when women frequently didn't have their own money. Her mother taught her to stash and she learned the lesson well. It was her "just in case" money - especially if she ever wanted to leave my grandpa (they were happily married until the day she died) She always told my mom & my uncle - in the event of her death - to make sure they checked every drawer, pocket, purse, nook and cranny before they threw anything away. When she was alive, one would frequently open an unused sugar bowl, or tucked away gift box and find a wad of bills - new or old. She died in 1993, and my grandpa died in 2007. 4 years ago, I received their old chest - a piece my grandpa had used after he sold their house & moved to an apartment before he died. It had been sitting in my Uncle's garage since '07. It was dirty and dusty and I removed the drawer to clean it. Under the felt drawer lining, I found $242 in $20 & $10 bills from the 1970s.(and a sheet of 6 cent stamps from 1968-71?) A few months later, H and I took my mom out to a swanky restaurant for her birthday (right after my dad died) and paid for the dinner with grandma's money as a surprise and told her it was a gift from her mom. The bill coincidentally was almost the exact same amount as the money we found. Kismet. Thanks for evoking that wonderful memory of my grandma. I wish I inherited the "stash gene". I try to use cash, but when I don't spend "this week's$20 allotment", I just forgo taking out next weeks...I should really start stashing it instead! [/QUOTE]
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