I have no problem spending money. Most of the time I think it’s a great idea, yet I later realize it isn’t.
Missy has a big problem spending money. Most of the time she won’t spend money on herself, but she really needs to.
Together, we work out.
Missy’s thriftiness benefits us in many ways, especially now we have 2 young children. For instance, she focuses on reselling our children’s clothes and buying their new clothes at the resale sales. These are sales attended by thousands of other people looking for great deals on kids clothes. Missy’s strategy is to show up on the last day for the highest percentage off the clothes and it really helps us.
The video is short and you might think it stupid, but look closer. You’ll see racks upon racks of kids clothes. You’ll see Missy going through each article of clothing looking to see if it’ll work for Shannon or Tommy. You’ll see her thriftiness saving us money.
Her thriftiness also leads us through adventures, especially when it comes to installation services. Our kitchen needed a new dishwasher, so we bought one, had it delivered and it sat. For a while. We finally decided to install it one painful weekend and it didn’t go well. For 2 years it was installed, but not mounted to the counter. It wasn’t until Tommy started crawling that we finally figured out how to mount it … he was causing it to tip when he climbed on it.
Oh, and the time we needed a new over the stove microwave? Bought it, had it delivered and it sat in the box for 6 months until Tommy pushed Missy to install it.
See the top of this post? Seriously, we depend on Missy’s financial discipline to such a degree that when she went in the hospital to deliver Tommy, she was doing the monthly bills.
Missy’s thriftiness is a continuing blessing in our marriage and has leveled out my extravagance.