Of the two camps concerning money: those that use it to show they have it, and those who keep it in the background, I definitely fall into the latter.  I have a stack of favorite t-shirts that my wife mistakes for cleaning rags, I just sealed my own asphalt driveway rather than pay a service to do it for me, and I drive cars until they fall apart from underneath me.  Now that my 1998 Plymouth Grand Voyager is operating on four cylinders instead of six I decided it was finally time to, as they say at the veterinarian’s office, “put it down.”  Note: I held out as long as I could, and am proud that I got the car to last on five cyclones for quite a few miles.

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