How to get your wife to lighten up....

[nakedfrog]

She knows it won't bankrupt us - she knows our finances every bit as well as I do. But people who lived through hardship see money a lot differently. Speak to folks who lived through the great depression. My grand-parents died and had money hidden all through their house. They didn't trust the banks because of what happened, and died sitting on a huge (8 figures) chunk of money because they were (irrationally?) afraid of something similar happening again.

Anyway - the hammer fell today. She decided we shouldn't go. (Can I call it or what?) So I proposed that we spend the 4 days touring all the local lock-up room scenarios (there are dozens). In the evenings we'll do a couple wine-tasting tours without the rug rats. We can do a ton of them for almost nothing. She jumped right on it and has them scheduled. We'll hit a local waterpark too.

Ah well. Such is life.

That sounds pretty good too, we just finished the last escape room at one of our local places this past weekend and are planning to do one of the others soon.