Younger Son Sneed is having another episode from his mental illness. It is like the one that caused his legal problems last month. Mrs. Sneed awakened me at 3:30 am today to tell me that Younger Son Sneed was gone and that she was afraid for his safety. Fortunately, his car was in the garage. I found him a couple of blocks away wandering the street in search of an open store. He had no idea that it was three-thirty in the morning.
Our town is not like many big cities where one might find stores open at that hour. Circle K is open all night, but there isn't one nearby. The poor guy was more likely to get hurt than find an open store.
This whole episode resulted in a trip to the hospital, a six-hour stay in the coldest room ever and hearty good luck and goodbye. After being allowed to sleep in the cold room under a pile of blankets, Young Sneed told the hospital staff that he felt good and was anxious to get back home. Since he is an adult, my vote didn't count for anything. He is fine, if by fine you mean he can't recall what happened two minutes ago and doesn't know what day or time it is.
As days go, this hasn't been one of the better ones.
I was also just reading an article by some guy writing for Market Watch. According to a HBSC Bank survey, people making $250,000 or more per year are no better at saving than the rest of us. Ya think?
This is really the same conclusion that Stanley and Danko came to in their research for the book The Millionaire Next Door. Saving is a habit and is not a function of income. People who make more tend to...say it with me...spend more!
For better or worse, my strategy has always been to put something away before I spend my paycheck. We save, pay our bill and then spend. Believe me, when we were young there were plenty of times when my pay was gone on the day I got it, but we have never not paid a bill on time or saved a bit for our old age.
Anyway, that's my two cents on the matter.
Things in this blog represented to be fact, may or may not actually be true. The writer is frequently wrong, sometimes just full of it, but always judgmental and cranky
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5 comments:
Hope things get better for your son--I thought about him while reading in today's Wall Street Journal about a pillbox with a little multiple alarm system in it-- apparently loads of people forget their meds.
It is available from
e.pill.com
I spent some hours this evening trying to remember if I took my iron supplement this morning. I finally recalled taking it before running out of the house, late for an appt. I have accidentally skiped it 3 days in a row.
A neighbor ( who always earned good money and spent like there was no tomorrow) recently sold his home for over a mil. profit. He said he was going to put at least half away for retirement. Then he bought a boat. His wife decided she needed a new BMW. New stereo, more outrageously expensive clothes, a spontaneous vacation with first class airline tickets and the priciest hotel they could find. They kept telling us about all this great stuff and we just smiled and nodded. It was like a spendy frenzy-- it made me feel sorry for them. When the faery-dust settled they had nothing left from that huge pile o cash-- they went through it in less than SIX MONTHS!. They now live in a condo and are starting to whine about money. It is as if they don't understand they ran through a pile. unaware somehow.
seriously--you could write a great book on money matters.
I save every cent. For what, I don't know.
Merle,
Sorry about the episode. Does his psychiatrist have any ideas? :(
You're totally right about saving. I'm always amazed by stories of CEOs and lottery winners who wind up declaring bankruptcy. And then I see photos of their houses. Geez.
Merle
Crepe myrtle is lovely, both flowers and the tree trunk, lantana is not well loved here, the further north you go the more it is a pest/weed. Hope things are improving for your boy.
Ms Soup
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