FIL, you’re 92. This IS your retirement when you can use the money you’ve saved up for it guilt-free. Considering you have to have multiple banks to overcome the FDIC insurance limit, you have more than enough to stop worrying about using coupons for fast food. If you want potato cakes from Arbys instead of curly fries - get them! Or let H buy them for you. It’s ok if you don’t use the coupon because it doesn’t allow for substitutions. Our budget is fine too so it’s ok if H buys what he wants rather than having to stick with a coupon item.
And since I’m at it, get the coffee you want in the morning rather than going to the place where it’s 20 cents cheaper. You water it down anyway so you can make one senior coffee last for two mornings. That’s a whopping 10 cents you save.
It’s also ok to buy grapes even if they’re more than 99 cents/lb since you love them.
There’s a big difference between these things and spending frivolously or being taken in by scams.
I really wish you could grasp this concept. You’ve worked for and saved your money. Use it on things you like. The last dime doesn’t need to go to your kids. H would rather see you enjoying things you like too - it’s not just me.
The third anniversary of Route 91 has come and gone, and I can’t believe how many people seem to have already forgotten. Is it any wonder we can’t make progress on gun reform? Thank you to the one person who reached out to me yesterday.
I am an atheist and thus don’t believe in an afterlife. That is only a problem when I think some reprehensible people will never get what they deserve. This morning, I am holding out hope for justice.