Like my mother said before she and my father left for out of town "Don't have any parties." I did. This gorgeous hunk of man came over with his brother and a friend of mine. Love at first sight. He proposed to me the night we met. I ACCEPTED. Three months later he gave me my engagement ring, three months after that we were married and celebrated 51 years of marriage this past June.
The day we were married we had $58.00 to our name, a week's worth of groceries, including all the staples to start married life with that cost $25.00 and a sweet apartment that cost $75.00 a month!
Even though it was tough, really tough, we made it. We found out that if we didn't have the money, we didn't get it. I never liked charge cards (credit cards) and if we wanted or needed something we saved for it.
Fifty one years later, we still do it that way. That's the best part of all -- saving for something you want or need. The anticipation and the satisfaction that you bought it and didn't have to worry about paying for it later. It has worked for us.
We have a son, a daughter-in-law, three grandchildren and soon we will be great-grandparents for the first time. OMG!
Life is good! Edie