Last day of November

I wish I won, I sure could use it! I didn’t even buy one. Nice pic Lori!

Oh well, lots of people who win say they wish they didn’t as there life totally changes and not for the good. You know the old saying, “money makes people funny”! I’ll bet I could have made a go of it though!

Yesterday the misses and I ran back downtown after taking separate trips across town on errands of our own. The stores actually have lots of pretty good sales going on but we’re not biting. Partially because we don’t have any money to spare but mostly because our philosophy on what we spend our money on has changed. We really don’t go in for the luxury’s any more but are now more practical. Sure everyone wants nice things but we’d rather continue to try to pay down debt and just buy necessities. There’s another old saying which has resurfaced these days, which is pretty spot on with the world in the shape it is in today, and that is to spend you money on “beans and bullets”. This has a larger meaning but is also literal. The point is to buy things that your family needs (or will need) now or in the future. The good thing about buying extra food is that you’ll always use it!

Ok, now to the kiddo’s. First off, they’re both getting so tall. Those of you that haven’t seen them for a bit would be amazed. Today we have a meeting at school at 7:45 so we’ll need to get moving early around here. The oldest is reading 700 page Harry Potter books non-stop. We have to make him turn his lights off every night as he’ll just stay up reading. The youngest is reading really well too but not at the point yet where he just wants to read for fun.

We need to find something fun to do this weekend as it’s the first weekend of December. We have the football game Sunday so tomorrow we’ll probably go see Santa somewhere.

Now for the latest from our elected representatives who are supposed to be looking out for us. Did you hear, some dems are proposing taking your IRA and 401 K’s and issuing you a bond and then paying you your retirement money out of those? Nice huh, the gov wants to now take YOUR hard earned money and then give you a piece of paper and then give it back to you (right) when you need it. Sounds a lot like Social Security. You do know that Social Security would not be in financial trouble at all if the gov didn’t raid it for almost 2 trillion dollars (that’s right, they just took, they say they borrowed it) and now they can’t pay it back. Does anyone really think that if they take the money in your IRA or 401K that you’ll get it back? If so, you’re living in a dream World. Oh well, those that voted for you know who, are going to get what you asked for. (sorry I just can’t help myself as it’s true)

So, have a great weekend, stay safe and go buy some beans and bullets! God Bless