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Originally Posted by Cowperson
Not really.
Back in the early 1980's in Peace River, earning about $700 a month, I did a budget and saw I could save $25 a month, which meant by Spring I would have saved $125 and therefore I might be able to take a little driving vacation. That is, if everything went perfectly.
I also remember having $20 for two weeks of food once. Lots of Campbell's soup and toast in those two weeks.
I've been there. At zero. And bitter with those who had money and threw it around in my face.
Her advice is sound.
It's only unfortunate the advice is coming from someone in the "Let Them Eat Cake" set. I get that.
These days I'm surrounded by millionaires. Talk to them every day. Most of them have very, very common beginnings not too dissimilar from my own in fact.
The common denominator is persistence through a lifetime of working. No miracle solution or motherlode.
Pretty much what Ugly, Rich Lady is saying.
Cowperson
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Is that what she's saying though? Seems to me she is saying those who aren't rich are that way because they're lazy and/or enjoy the drink too much.
Plenty of hard working people never rise above middle-class.