Yesterday i was catching up with someone and learned something I find amusing.
Years ago I became friends with an older lady at church. She was always careful with her money. We did things together. When I went to college we kept in touch. When I returned home, we would do things together. One summer we attended plays at the local university.
A few years ago she became unable to take care of herself and her meds so she entered a nursing home. I visited her each week and would bring her things that she would say she missed. I knew she and her late husband had worked and she said they had invested in savings bonds, but she was always very careful with her money. I took her out once (I had to get permission) and we went shopping and she said she wasn't sure she had the money to buy something and I told her if she didn't, I would pay for it. She did, but I did treat her to a snack at a place of her choosing.
She died and I knew her house was for sale and I had heard the only family she had left was in another country. I didn't think anything of it. Each Memorial Day I put flowers on hers and her husband's grave.
Well, yesterday the person I was catching up with happened to mention her dad was the executor of the estate and that my friend had money. Lots of it. Like over a million.
Here I thought she was broke and she had over a million. Wow, looks can be deceiving. I am quite amused at this because she certainly fooled me. But I know there have been more instances of this that I've read about people living frugally and then when they die, having quite a bit of money accumulated. I'm glad I didn't know she had this money. I would never want people to think I did anything for any gain.
I am amused
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I sometimes say that to friends, that I can't afford to do something. Knowing full well that I have more in savings and less in debt than they do and they're going to buy the tickets or go to the restaurant anyway. I assume they know that I really can afford it in the sense that I have the money. But maybe some people would be surprised to find out how much I do have since I always sound like I can't afford stuff.
I kind of assumed my parents were poor because we had so much used stuff and they scrimped on weird little things like the price of a pair of shoes. Now my dad has more money than he knows what to do with, and it was really due to that attitude of not being able to afford things that he really could!
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