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Monday, December 1, 2008 12:00 AM

I bought stocks; my husband bought CDs. Now I can't bear to look

I can't get up the nerve to tell my husband just how much money we've lost.
By Cary Tennis

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  • Monday, December 1, 2008 12:32 PM

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    I'm always terrified to open my bills. It's like getting yelled at to give them money I don't have!

    I wait until the very last minute, then go online and make the biggest payment I can while keeping it small enough that I can pay every bill a few dollars! It's kinda like how I would plug my ears and sing so I don't hear my parents... when I was 3.

    I never had stocks, but credit companies seem to have stopped caring about payment plans, and my job sure doesn't pay appropriate wages anymore!

    I know what it's like to shudder in fear at the mail. Thanks for making me laugh at myself, Cary!

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