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

Jerry Okamura <okamuraj005@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
> beadsbyirene <sanerthanyou@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
>> FrediFizzx <fredifizzx@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote

>>> Yep, ditto on our house also.  Bought for $23K back in the early 70's.
Very good for keepin' the rain off your head. 
>>> ;-)


>>> Jerry Okamura <okamuraj005@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote

>>>> 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]
> wrote

>>>>> 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.

You're so mindlessly superficial.

>> The best purchase I ever made was a marriage license for 3 bucks 48
years ago.

Pity you didnt need to make that purchase at all and could have
lived the same way without spending that $3 if you'd had a clue.

> 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.

And only fools do whats expected of them when it makes
much more sense to not bother with that particular cost.

True in spades of fancy wedding ceremonys.