116. Notes - to Cinci / Carol

116. 9 May 2019

       Moving on mid-morning. You are readying for the trip to Cincinnati. Once you drop Carol off (Ann isn't going to lunch today) you will take the car to P&G Auto Wash for a light wash with a good detailing. On the way home, you are planning on stopping at Toyota Direct off Morse Road to put the deposit on the car. - Amorella

       0833 hours. I have to miss lunch with Bud C. today because of the car wash. I'll see Bud next month if the girls have their lunch,

       You are at Pro Clean Car Wash & Detail on Arbor Square Drive across from P&G getting a Wash and a Super Interior Clean for $52.43 tax included at Paul's suggestion and you hope it is worth it. - Amorella

       1205 hours. I haven't had a car done here for a couple of years and never know how much to tip. They have a cafe in the place now, Joseph's Cup as well as upscale 'trinkets' sell. I'm a bit out of my league coming here but if it helps the trade in then all is well and good. I struggle between leaving eight or ten dollars for the tip. Pulled out a ten and dropped it to eight. We are very frugal people though it probably doesn't look it with a new house and within eight months a new car on top of it. I get the jitters thinking about it and a slightly upset stomach. We rarely spend money like this, actually, never. 

       Two school teachers who start with next to nothing; however you both had no school debt; then in a few years graduate school, again with no debt. Then, debt on two cars and a first house, then debt until paying for Kim's undergraduate and helping on her graduate school so she has no debt. Not until the year after your retirement in 2004 did you have no debts, and you still do not. This is the way it was and is. Frugal living. It was a necessity for you both to live this way. Now it is not, but for the most part after the car you will return to frugal living because you don't know any better. That's how I see it. - mh

       1220 hours. Wow. That pretty much summarizes our economic lifetime together. Carol is responsible for this state of our condition. I am ever thankful I married such a beautiful and wonderful woman. We have had a good life. 

       Post. - Amorella