[Magdalen] Mike & Everett face a demon.

[Roger Stokes]

On 12/01/2016 00:17, M J _Mike_ Logsdon wrote:
>>>> I was talking to someone about passbooks just the other day... that visual
> was great for a kid. I used to keep mine in the bedroom and look at the
> balance in between bank visits, amazed at my 'wealth' : ) <<<
>
> The last time I dealt with one of those was during the early 90s when we were saving for a house.  Well, I was saving for a house.  Anna wasn't saving for anything, but what for two County employees socking it away each month for years amounted to literally wealth untold (it was yooge), certainly disappeared like water through a sieve when Everett was born.

Over Christmas my son observed that he and his wife had taken the 
opportunity to splurge on something before their adoptive kids arrived 
because they knew money would be tighter then.

Roger