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"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> Jerry Okamura <okamuraj005@hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
>> "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:69bha4F32f79hU1@mid.individual.net...
>>> beadsbyirene <sanerthanyou@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> "Jerry Okamura" <okamuraj005@hawaii.rr.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:483062a6$0$30481$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
>>>>>
>>>>> "beadsbyirene" <sanerthanyou@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>>>> news:pWLXj.143981$Er2.26457@bignews6.bellsouth.net...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "FrediFizzx" <fredifizzx@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>>>>> news:699ej7F3219vmU1@mid.individual.net...
>>>>>>> Yep, ditto on our house also.  Bought for $23K back in the early
>>>>>>> 70's. Very good for keepin' the rain off your head. ;-)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Fred
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> "Jerry Okamura" <okamuraj005@hawaii.rr.com> wrote in message
>>>>>>> news:482f72c3$0$5707$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
>>>>>>>> The house we are presently living in now.  We got it at a great
>>>>>>>> price, and it has since appreciated in value considerably from
>>>>>>>> our purchase price, in about eight years.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> "Joe" <cyan999@post.com> wrote in message
>>>>>>>> news:8f2702cc-afb9-4964-bf0d-8425adb35b82@1g2000prg.googlegroups.com...
>>>>>>>>> Exlcuding anything to do with admirable things like making a
>>>>>>>>> charitable donation and / or paying for education (be it yours
>>>>>>>>> or someone elses), what so far is
>>>>>>>>> the best purchase you've ever made and please elaborate on why
>>>>>>>>> you think so.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You guys are so materialistic.  The best purchase I ever made was
>>>>>> a marriage license for 3 bucks 48 years ago.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Good point.  But I do not consider the cost of a marriage license
>>>>> as a purchase, because you did not have to "purchase" a licnese to
>>>>> live with someone for the rest of your life.  We do that because
>>>>> it is one of those things we are expected to do, when we marry
>>>>> someone.
>>>
>>>> 48 years ago, you had to purchase a license to live with someone
>>>> for the rest of your life. Living together without that license was
>>>> considered 'sin' in those days.
>>>
>>> No it wasnt, plenty did it even then. That was the 60s when doing
>>> that was rife.
>>>
>>
>> This year is 2008.  48 years ago, would make it 1960.
>
> Duh. Plenty of people were doing that in 1960.
>

Well, heck.  Depending on the definition of "plenty", they were doing it 
before the '60's and they are sitll doing it.