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Originally Posted by fw102807
Our closing up north fell through 3 times. When it finally closed we went to Arnold Palmer to celebrate and had a coupon for a free bottle of wine. It had the Arnold Palmer label on it so we brought it home and dated and now proudly display it. Most of the time we have chateau whatever comes out of a box. I am NOTHING but cheap.
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Join the club......NOTHING but cheap NOTHINGS here too. Or if not that, the deal of the century. My husband is a researcher and negotiator. Not the hard nose kind, but the kind where they end up liking him so much he ends up getting more than he asked for. He actually has people ask him to go with them when they purchase stuff.
When my son was little, while I was busy reading him the usual children's stories, not so my husband. For Christmas one year my mother bought my husband the book "The Art of the Deal" which everyone is certainly aware of now, if they weren't before. So, killing 2 birds with one stone, my husband read it to my son. As a toddler my husband was teaching him about earning interest and at 4 years old my son asked Santa for a MAC card (now ATM, of course) for Christmas. At the age of 12, my husband took my son to a flea market and let him set up a table to sell his "wares". Some Jersey people will be familiar with it, the big one in Berlin, NJ. After that, my son took off, negotiating everything even grades at school.
It all paid off though especially with the uncertainty of the job market for these millenials because he already pretty much has his retirement package in hand with his investments in real estate.
You can see I had NOTHING to do with any of that. Maybe there was something I added to his upbringing......
