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My wife heard from a dear friend of hers last night through the magic of Instant Messaging that she had not heard from in about two years.  This friend is actually the young adult daughter of a close friend, and the girl calls my wife “auntie.”  Anyway, it appeared that the young lady needed a shoulder to cry on about how hard marriage is (she’s been married only three years.”  And of course, bemoaning how tight money is, and all the regular complaints that young married women have.

After the “conversation” was over, my wife was telling me that this young lady was complaining about how tight money is, and my wife was going to give her a tip on how to save money on groceries.  My wife asked me which one of the couple does the cooking, and the answer was “we eat all of our meals out.”

Well, so much for tips on saving money on groceries, and so much for complaining about how tight money is if you are eating all of your meals out!  That really gets my goat when people eat all of their meals out and have the audacity to complain that money is tight for them!

Well I’ve been reminding my wife every day this week that we need to get the Christmas gifts in the mail to the folks in New England so they will arrive in time for Christmas.  She kept telling me that she didn’t have time to deal with it because of her work schedule, and for me to go ahead and get them ready to mail and we would mail them out early on Saturday morning when the Post Office was open.  Sure enough, this morning she said “get the gifts together and we’ll take them to the Post Office.”  Well, she wasn’t too impressed with the information that the gifts were not yet gift wrapped or boxed in shipping boxes.  So now I am in the process of gift wrapping them and getting them ready to ship, although the Post Office is now closed for the weekend.  Oh well, I guess the gifts will be arriving late this year!