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<blockquote data-quote="Scent of Cedar *" data-source="post: 649330" data-attributes="member: 17461"><p>Absolutely true.</p><p></p><p>There will come a time, and it will happen more quickly than you think, when you will be unable to work the way you do, now.</p><p></p><p>You will have only whatever you have managed to accumulate for retirement and nothing more and no way to get more.</p><p></p><p>In our case, both our children have cost us so much money. It sometimes seems like anonymous, countless buckets of money have been dumped into nothingness.</p><p></p><p>The buckets and buckets of money are just gone <em>and the immediate, pressing need for more money right away, for more money right this minute to avert some crisis or another ~ that never ended.</em></p><p></p><p>We finally had to dig up the chutzpa to say "NO MONEY." (I finally ~ husband never did have a problem saying no. But he would weaken, would throw money after money at whatever child or grandchild it was who needed money this time, to placate me.) </p><p></p><p>2much is absolutely right. </p><p></p><p>We are talking tens of thousands of dollars, here.</p><p></p><p>We have six grands. There literally is no way we could take them all, and there is no way we can help them all enough to make a difference, partly because the parents mess things up the second they have two cents to rub together.</p><p></p><p>Which two cents have generally come from us.</p><p></p><p>As you know, being the grandparent is a whole other vulnerability.</p><p></p><p>Cedar</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scent of Cedar *, post: 649330, member: 17461"] Absolutely true. There will come a time, and it will happen more quickly than you think, when you will be unable to work the way you do, now. You will have only whatever you have managed to accumulate for retirement and nothing more and no way to get more. In our case, both our children have cost us so much money. It sometimes seems like anonymous, countless buckets of money have been dumped into nothingness. The buckets and buckets of money are just gone [I]and the immediate, pressing need for more money right away, for more money right this minute to avert some crisis or another ~ that never ended.[/I] We finally had to dig up the chutzpa to say "NO MONEY." (I finally ~ husband never did have a problem saying no. But he would weaken, would throw money after money at whatever child or grandchild it was who needed money this time, to placate me.) 2much is absolutely right. We are talking tens of thousands of dollars, here. We have six grands. There literally is no way we could take them all, and there is no way we can help them all enough to make a difference, partly because the parents mess things up the second they have two cents to rub together. Which two cents have generally come from us. As you know, being the grandparent is a whole other vulnerability. Cedar [/QUOTE]
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