If you did not trust banks, what would you do with your money?

[rebelcowboysnb]

Currency, gold, silver, diamonds and jewels; you can’t eat any of them, you can’t cover your body with them to keep warm and you can’t use them as shelter. But through some mysterious transformation, called Finance, they can make all of these necessities come to be. My greatest asset is time. I have only a set amount of time given to me – I cannot grow more time, yet I have spent my whole adult life trading my time for currency. That currency, I take to the bank and I give it to them for safe keeping – little bits and pieces of my time – my life; as if I can grow more of my life.
I was born during the 40’s. My favorite people were my great grandparents, Roy and Lily. Roy went to work each day and Lily stayed home. They lived in a beautiful house, they always seemed to have time for their family, and I especially remember a wonderful sense of grace in their lives. What I find astounding is that Roy’s work was that of a door to door salesman for Watken’s Products – that’s it, a door to door salesman! Through my whole life, I have never been able to equal the grace that my grandparents were able to have. I worked hard; sometimes pulling 24 hour shifts, and frequently feeling as though I was treading water 3 feet under. All around me, I saw folks my age working with the same sense of panic – both husband and wife holding currency producing jobs, sometimes each taking on more than one job – all just to make ends meet. Life seems to be wound tighter and tighter. I thought, then, that something had to brake simply based on what I saw around me. Banks, government and many institutions have become more parasitic in nature. I don’t understand national or global finance, and I can’t explain why life for most of us seems to have gotten cheaper. All I know is that it has been a long time coming.

Well said...

I know my grandfather an grandmother raised 5 kids on one paycheck an owned 2 houses, one that they built an one that was bought. Had nice cars an lived pretty good.

Today people have a hard time getting by on two paychecks. Allot of that has to do with money management but the cost of living is higher now when compared to the average income.

 

[fishnet1971]

I would just buy more chickens.

 

[jbirds2012]

I would just buy more chickens.

yea,me too, if all i want to eat is chicken all year long

 

[fishnet1971]

what? you mean chicken soup, roast chicken, friend chicken, egg salad, fried eggs, egg nog, hard boiled eggs are not good enough to eat 24/7?????

 

[Baymule]

what? you mean chicken soup, roast chicken, friend chicken, egg salad, fried eggs, egg nog, hard boiled eggs are not good enough to eat 24/7?????

Enough egg nog (heavy on the nog) and who cares what you're eating??

 

[mississippifarmboy]

Kathy, you know I don't have any money, but if I did?


The only thing I can think of is land.

 

[Capvin]

Land....one of the best investments no matter what the economy. Always has been and always will. Who knew that MFB could be so right on!!

 

[catdaddyfro]

Yes this is one thing they are not able to make more of for sure, Land it has been fought over for many many times in history, its still worth fighting for, they do it almost daily in the mid-east.

Jeff

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

Land is always a good investment assuming you can get it for worth an not the overinflated price that people are trying to get the last few years.

 

[fishnet1971]

I agree. I take my response back, I would get the land too... THEN buy more chickens.

AND DRINK MORE NOG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!