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Re: What's the best purchase you've ever made and why ?

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From: Rod Speed
Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 20:19
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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. 
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From: "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: misc.consumers,misc.consumers.frugal-living,aus.invest,soc.retirement,misc.invest.stocks
Subject: Re: What's the best purchase you've ever made and why ?
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