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- From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Re: middle class/affording a house
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.054129.17162@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 05:41:29 GMT
- References: <1200@stake.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
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- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
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- emolinar@stake.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Elizabeth Molinaro) writes:
- :
- : What has amazed me about this conversation is that (aside from what I
- : will say) only ONE person has advocated a little bit of buying/spending
- : restraint in order to save to buy a house.
-
- No, there were at least two of us.
-
- ... Excellent advice deleted ...
-
- : 7. Life is not too short to live frugally for a year or two, in
- : order to accomplish large goals. And who said frugal had
- : to be boring???? Life is always what YOU make of it: money
- : is only a part of the equation, not the whole.
-
- Exactly - having gone this route myself, I know it can be done.
-
- I actually got a second job to help pay off the down payment - which was a
- personal note to the person from whom I bought the house.
-
- It was not highly pleasant, and sometimes downright uncomfortable, but still
- well worth the effort.
-
- Bill
-