Re: What's the best purchase you've ever made and why ?

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 "Jerry Okamura" <okamuraj005@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > beadsbyirene <sanerthanyou@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> "Jerry Okamura" <okamuraj005@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>> "beadsbyirene" <sanerthanyou@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>>> "FrediFizzx" <fredifizzx@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>>>> Yep, ditto on our house also.  Bought for $23K back in the early
> >>>>> 70's. Very good for keepin' the rain off your head. ;-)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Fred
> >>>>>
> >>>>> "Jerry Okamura" <okamuraj005@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>>>> news:482f72c3$0$5707$4c368faf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>>>>> The house we are presently living in now.  We got it at a great
> >>>>>> price, and it has since appreciated in value considerably from
> >>>>>> our purchase price, in about eight years.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> "Joe" <cyan999@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>>>>>
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> >>>>>>> Exlcuding anything to do with admirable things like making a
> >>>>>>> charitable donation and / or paying for education (be it yours
or
> >>>>>>> someone elses), what so far is
> >>>>>>> the best purchase you've ever made and please elaborate on why
> >>>>>>> you think so.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> You guys are so materialistic.  The best purchase I ever made was a
> >>>> marriage license for 3 bucks 48 years ago.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Good point.  But I do not consider the cost of a marriage license as
> >>> a purchase, because you did not have to "purchase" a licnese to live
> >>> with someone for the rest of your life.  We do that because it is
> >>> one of those things we are expected to do, when we marry someone.
> >
> >> 48 years ago, you had to purchase a license to live with someone for
the 
> >> rest of your life. Living together without that license was
considered 
> >> 'sin' in those days.
> >
> > No it wasnt, plenty did it even then. That was the 60s when doing that
was 
> > rife.
> >
> 
> This year is 2008.  48 years ago, would make it 1960. 

Yup, and 30 years before that, my dad's parents lived in sin and they 
eventually got married and stayed that way for several decades after 
that.