I can remember when I got my first apartment and how expensive it was to furnish it! I tried hard to pinch every penny. I used family hand-me-downs that no one else wanted and they have served me well. I used dry bars and fish aquarium stands for my tv stands in the different rooms. Even now I still have those hand-me-downs; they have become cherished family heirlooms. I wouldn’t want to part with them now!
I can remember the day my wife came home from one of her business classes and told me that she had just learned that only the wealthiest 2% of Americans owned any stock at all. Can you imagine that 98% of us Americans don’t own any stock, and that owning stock (or not) is one of the measures of wealth (or lack thereof) in the social services offices as ways to determine if you are poor enough to receive food stamps?
It was right about that same time that my wife decided to take a closer look at Online Trading. Up until that point she had purchased a couple of IRA Accounts and was Stock Trading with a broker that had been a friend of her ex-husband’s. She decided that it was time to take advantage of the financial benefits of instant trading and low cost trading fees. She was pretty tired of having to chase down her brick and mortar broker to buy or sell stock.
Jim is a guy who has to keep up with the Jones’s at all times. I can remember when he first bought his laptop computer. He plugged it in and let the cord drape across the room so that when his dog walked past the table, it pulled the laptop off the table. Yes, the laptop was totalled. No, he had not bought insurance on it. So when Jim told me that he wanted to buy an ipad, I told him that he’d best be paying for ipad insurance!
My wife has been asking me to install some strip lights over the kitchen island for the past several years. She found a strip light designed by George Kovacs on the Internet that she likes quite a bit. She was looking at designer lights by Focarini and Kichler also, but she liked the strip lights by Kovacs the best. I looked at some of the lights, too and was quite amazed at how much some of the lights made me think of the television series The Jetsons!
I’ve noticed that ever since my wife got her new job, she has been taking extra effort to dress in an extravant way. She’s been buying a lot of flashy jewelry; mostly earrings. She tells me that she is trying to get her customers to approach her with a smile on their faces, telling me that starts the relationship off on a positive note. She says that picking out what to wear to work is like picking out costumes for a party. I think she’s crazy. What do you think?
