OLS
02-04-2013, 07:11 AM
My mother used to say, back when I used to bounce checks in the USAF, that I needed to "HIDE money
from myself." I told her, "that's stupid, how can I pretend not to know I have money when I know it is
there?" The problem is that military people (and college students) don't make 5hi+ to begin with, and
'hiding money' from ourselves would first involve HAVING money. Then you'd have to get past the whole
KNOWING about it thing.
Flash forward about 30 something years and I have money. Not much, but more than I had then.
One payday last year I had slid a hundred into a automated checkout at KROWGER to pay for my
crap, and it did what it always does when you use a $100, it cranked out a crapload of fives.
I got to the car and I took the three fives that looked they'd spent serious time in Madea's buttcrack
and I stashed them in the console of the car and thought, "One day this is going to come in handy and
I will be glad I did this."
The OTHER, other day, I was heading for goodwill to hunt for Revere Ware, see this post (http://olscigars.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-thrift-store-disease.html)
and I found three pots I wanted, but did not have enough money in my pocket to buy them.
Plus I wanted to ride across the street from Goodwill and get me some Chinese Food.
I was pi55ed off. I wanted all this crap and had 11 bucks to accomplish about 17 bucks worth of
stuff. Then I remembered the money I had stashed. I couldn't believe my luck and the serendipity.
If they had been 90s or even 80s Revere Ware, I would have just tossed it back on the rack,
but cruel fate had designed the day perfectly, they were all pre-1958 items... see why that matters (http://reverewarehistory.wordpress.com/2012/03/25/revere-ware-history/)
So I bought the items and got ten cents change, but by that time I knew I had three fivers stashed
in the console, so I went across the street and picked up my lunch and on the next payday,
replaced the fives with $20s. Hiding money from yourself is a GREAT IDEA. You should try it.
When the day comes to tell YOUR STORY, here is the spot to do it. Unless you're ADAM, in which
please feel free to post things like this:
http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/ae23/JAMpromotionsMKTG/Star-Wars-Cats1_zpsd028a0f8.jpg
from myself." I told her, "that's stupid, how can I pretend not to know I have money when I know it is
there?" The problem is that military people (and college students) don't make 5hi+ to begin with, and
'hiding money' from ourselves would first involve HAVING money. Then you'd have to get past the whole
KNOWING about it thing.
Flash forward about 30 something years and I have money. Not much, but more than I had then.
One payday last year I had slid a hundred into a automated checkout at KROWGER to pay for my
crap, and it did what it always does when you use a $100, it cranked out a crapload of fives.
I got to the car and I took the three fives that looked they'd spent serious time in Madea's buttcrack
and I stashed them in the console of the car and thought, "One day this is going to come in handy and
I will be glad I did this."
The OTHER, other day, I was heading for goodwill to hunt for Revere Ware, see this post (http://olscigars.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-thrift-store-disease.html)
and I found three pots I wanted, but did not have enough money in my pocket to buy them.
Plus I wanted to ride across the street from Goodwill and get me some Chinese Food.
I was pi55ed off. I wanted all this crap and had 11 bucks to accomplish about 17 bucks worth of
stuff. Then I remembered the money I had stashed. I couldn't believe my luck and the serendipity.
If they had been 90s or even 80s Revere Ware, I would have just tossed it back on the rack,
but cruel fate had designed the day perfectly, they were all pre-1958 items... see why that matters (http://reverewarehistory.wordpress.com/2012/03/25/revere-ware-history/)
So I bought the items and got ten cents change, but by that time I knew I had three fivers stashed
in the console, so I went across the street and picked up my lunch and on the next payday,
replaced the fives with $20s. Hiding money from yourself is a GREAT IDEA. You should try it.
When the day comes to tell YOUR STORY, here is the spot to do it. Unless you're ADAM, in which
please feel free to post things like this:
http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/ae23/JAMpromotionsMKTG/Star-Wars-Cats1_zpsd028a0f8.jpg