So I know this couple, about my age, kids all grown up, both of them working, not making a lot of money, middle class. They paid off their old house, a civil war era home but nothing charming about it, life should have been easy at last. It wasn’t good enough.
They decided they needed to do some home improvement. They called somebody up about rebuilding the roof. It was easy, all they had to do was sign some papers and everything would be taken care of. A new loan on the home and the job would be done plus they could pay off their credit cards, sign here.
Well they signed, $54,000 went to the contractor, and ten Mexicans showed up in one van and went to work, in a few weeks the job was mostly done, mostly, because their son had to finish a few things that the contractor had forgotten.
The son told me later, “You know, the guys I worked with in construction use to talk about side jobs all of the time. The work my mom and dad had done was a $10,000 job.”
“Yea, but they really wanted it.” I replied.
When you want something, write it down and look at it for a while, for quite a while, and ask yourself if you really need it.
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