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"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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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.
>

This year is 2008.  48 years ago, would make it 1960.