We were awesome parents.
We got a new car at the end of 2002. A guy from church was starting a financial consulting firm. He guilted us into talking about our finances with him and he was going to come up with a plan to help us out. Our only debt was a zero-percent-interest car loan and we saved 10 percent of each paycheck. I had a retirement account through my job. He didn't have any suggestions of what we should change.
If that dude could see our finances now.
But back then things were great. We ate at restaurants a couple times each week. We bought a new book about once each week. We bought more Little People sets than Crazy Jane could possibly play with.
Persephone's parents were planning to serve a church mission, so they invited us to move into their house and tend it while they were gone. Soon after we moved in, however, her father was called as bishop of the ward. So we were living with my in-laws, which made us even richer once our $1,100-month rent payment for our one-bedroom apartment was gone.
In September we went on a vacation with my extended family to Lake of the Ozarks. Everyone learned from the experience, and we've never tried it again.
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