Fifty Years is a long time, but only in retrospect. While you are going through it, day by day, everything seems to take a long time. When we consider our situation fifty years ago compared with our situation today, it seems from a distance, to have been a long easy ride from then to now. But actually, it has been a long hard grind with every success coming much slower than anticipated. Now when we married, we had the good fortune to have no debt. Ken had completed his pre-medical training and I had a teaching certificate. Also we were energetic and enthusiastic for success. We both felt that nothing would stand in our way to a happy prosperous life. And so it turned out to be true.
Several facets of our attitudes have helped us. We paid no attention to try to acquire lovely belongings. We took in any furniture anyone give us without regard to how things looked. We never took on any debt until we bought our first home in 1973. We always kept well within our budget and our income. We did not care about what we had, only what we could do. We lived over a hardware store while Ken was in Medical School and kept our expenses low so we could travel in the summer. It is hard to believe, but while I was teaching through the year, we saved enough money for tuition so in the summer we obtained a job at a camp somewhere in North America so we could travel. We drove a 1952 VW bug, the one with the little window and we travelled all over the country camping in that little un-air conditioned car. We were happy to be doing it. But when you see us now, with all our stuff, it is hard to remember that we started with no assets except the most important thing, that was ourselves and our attitudes and our Families. It has not been easy to get from there to here. But we do enjoy ourselves now as we enjoyed ourselves back then, except mow we are much more comfortable with our surroundings!!
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