It's not just the credit card bills for the vacation.
It's the auto insurance: $330
the motorcycle insurance: $270
the motorcycle maintenance: $677
title transfer fees: $19.50
and now, the opthmalogist's exams and orders for new frames: $935
and the kindergarten tuition: $1520
And of course the mortgage: $1570 (I paid some extra -- I'm not yet at the point where the principal part of the payment exceeds the interest, so I pay extra for the principal until it can exceed the interest without my help.)
Flush flush flush flush.
However, what we get for all that money flushing:
* reliable and safe transportation for us all, and for one-at-a-time
* frames with prescriptions to meet our changing vision, before the husband's excellent benefits go away
* access to half-decent and full-time education for about 19% of daycare/preschool, and an opportunity to meet other parents of kindergartners; entry into what I hope to be a familial community
* a place to live for 30 more days. It may be a great time to rent, but for those with houses paid for or who know that a SFH would rent for more than what they pay in PITI and utilities, it ain't such a hardship to have a mortgage.
Flush, Flush, Flush That Money
August 26th, 2007 at 03:15 am
August 26th, 2007 at 03:14 pm 1188137692
August 27th, 2007 at 03:03 pm 1188223389
August 27th, 2007 at 03:37 pm 1188225477
I admit it's not PearleVision or LensCrafters. There's a really good health reason (which I'm too shy to divulge here) I see this doctor.