Re: OT - So Michael...

dwight wrote:
> "Michael Johnson" <cds@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> dwight wrote:
>>> "Michael Johnson" <cds@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> dwight wrote:
>>>>> "Michael Johnson" <cds@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>> Joe wrote:
>>>>>>> Thanks to the current administration (had to get that jab in
there), 
>>>>>>> fiscal America is sinking like a stone.
>>>>>> You do know that all this sub-prime mess got rolling under Clinton?
;)
>>>>>> cough< republican congress
>>>> Who was it that said "The buck stops here"?
>>> Wasn't ME.
>>>
>>> I'm the ATM for my family. I'm Buck Teflon. I take out $20 and hand it

>>> over that night.
>>>
>>> I always tell 'em, "I know where to get more," but, jeez, it'd be nice
to 
>>> have some currency in my wallet for more than 24 hours.
>> You first mistake was telling them you know where to get more.  Just
tell 
>> them the money tree died and the new one won't mature and bare fruit
for 
>> several years.
> 
> Fine, but half the tree belongs to my wife.
> 
> The problem I have with HER is that she's actually the one that will go
to 
> an ATM and withdraw $20. That's ridiculous. I understand frugality, but
I 
> also deal well with reality, and taking out $20 doesn't save you money,
it 
> just makes you go back to the ATM more often.
> 
> Me, I take out $100. Doesn't mean I spend it faster, just means that I
don't 
> have to go back the next day.

Since I work from home, I could easily live for a month on $100 cash.

> Actually... my wife doesn't have to go back the next day either. She's
got 
> me. So it all evens out.