All talk about cash for clunkers program that I think about my first car. What youth have changed, and certainly not just about buying cars.
My father agreed with me that he would match what I made in buying my first car. From the time I received my first nickel I've been saving. Allowance, the day after my two bits (twenty-five cents) weeks.
I grew in a small ranch near the town more whether Ventura. Ventura approximately thirty miles south of Santa Barbara, and sixty miles north of Los upper coast of California. On mostly agricultural area. Today is a beautiful fertile land has been paved to shoot home. Air and remain close to perfect you can get and it seems people like melanomas to melons.
I have some savings of plants or other. Plant a memory that sticks in my head related walnuts. When about ten schools offered my friend. "Get rich programs" soon or so I thought. Her family owned orchards Walnut and it is harvest time. She told me we will get five dollars for every bag of walnuts we choose. In the sixties the first of five big bucks. I think I should be able to receive at least a few bags in the day. Ten or fifteen dollars a day for wages that actually just too good. Of course I know what about choosing walnuts, my family in citrus and avocadoes.
Of course I've learned about choosing a date walnuts. Walnuts are shaken from trees onto the ground for them to pick up. Number of nuts is not good outside of the shell sends them to the need to be. shucked. There is something in the skin is yellow stains hands frightening. And a large bag, actually. By the end of the day's backbreaking our friends and I managed to fill one bag between us and me. Our hands as we have found smoking at least one hundred years! Not surprised that my name is limited and is stored walnut.
In 1960 my grandmother passed away. She left me 100 shares of AT & T. Today, unlike in those companies on dividends and management responses to them. Current shareholders take all the risk and executive pay themselves lavish salaries instead of dividends. One hundred shares of stock will not seem like much today but back then I paid $ 240 a share in annual dividends. Large for my children. Unlike today, back then savers are rewarded. I never heard the words total. "But I do not compound. It's just hard to be a smart thing to do.
By the time I was seventeen I had saved up $ 1,300 dollars and I know what I want. From the time I am a very little girl I love and have a horse as soon as I receive permission. I was thinking that I want to drag the tray to freeze, but then I found my Chevrolet El Camino. It is love at first sight. The world's best car with two beds are. Perfect! The bed for hauling equipment that you have been misled.
I think my father was dismayed at what I have announced a record $ 1,300 and are ready to buy my new car. Now he will share his cough. You may think that $ 1,300 is not large, but do you wrong. Dollars today may be more like $ 10,000.
I will not forget the evening my father said to ask more about the car. "I am so excited. We shut down fraudulent Telegraph Road Fillmore and William L. "Chappy" Chevrolet Morris. Dealership still existing, but not with our Chappy.
Walk into the showroom and exciting light in themselves. But are chosen out my new car well beyond. When I say nice. "I do not mean to wander around looking for needles in very large haystack. I mean see the list and select the color seat covers, carpets and engine sent other options. General Motors took the order and a car that was just me just the way I want and costs only $ 2600.
When you hear people talk about how our standards have to sign in forty years, I think this actually shows what they talk about. For $ 2,600 GM promised the moon and they sent me. I do not think that is equivalent in the market today. If a similar car / vehicle that you want to pay as much as possible and ten times what is required in court.
My father would just give me simple car, but he always insisted that his children work at them. This is not a bad thing. I learned self-reliance. Self-reliance is equivalent to freedom. I never thought I would have to depend on a man to survive is my most women in my generation do not. It never occurred to me I can not provide for themselves. Most women have been trained to believe they are serving. As I think about it I have to thanking my father as a jerk ".
Back in the sixties that people save to buy what they want. We do not take things for receiving and we really appreciate what we have. It seems that because Madison Avenue, in the last twenty years is people go berserk with your credit card. They buy everything they want when they want without having to get it. Now General Motors is bankrupt and has become a creditor to enslave their own. It is hard to believe this actually happens. A truly beautiful time in America has slipped to just to remember the old fogies like me.
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