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    How to Live Well While Spending Less

    By J.D. Rockefeller

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    We started out with very little. We had low paying jobs and one old used car, and rental house that had seen its better days. We were young, in love and all that mattered to us was being together. We spent summer afternoons at the lake. Our idea of a great Sunday was taking a long car ride. Life continued and we found better-paying jobs. Then we discovered credit. We soon had a nicer house, a couple of nice cars and two pretty cool kids. And we were struggling. We wanted to look successful, but we were barely paying the bills. Minor issues, like a sick child causing one of us to miss a day’s pay, were a catastrophe! Working as much as possible became our only focus. We used one credit card to pay the bill on another and it was an unending circle.
    We looked at our friends and found most of them in the same situation. One couple we knew had an amazing house in the best of neighborhoods, but except for a couch and an air mattress, had no furniture. Another couple we knew drove very nice cars but each worked two jobs and they rarely saw each other.
    We were miserable. However, we still didn’t know why. We thought we needed more “stuff”. We bought (financed) two ATV’s. We loved to ride. We began taking our children riding on our off days, which were rare. After a while it got to be too stressful, so we decided, we needed to go to the mountains to ride. So we invested in all new camping gear, which we bought with our new Sears credit card. (That we applied for in case of an emergency) We began camping and riding every chance we got, but the chances were fewer and fewer since we could not afford to turn down any extra hours to earn money.
    As it always does, it began to crumble around us. We had everything we thought we needed to be happy, but we were miserable. We looked at our children and realized they were miserable too. They just wanted time with us. It didn’t matter how fine their rooms looked. We had put happiness behind possessions. We had ignored the look of sadness in their eyes when we waved at them on our way to work another “off day”.
    The credit cards were to their limits. There was no more paying one with another. The house payment was due, the ATV payments were due. We had no more money. The interest and late fees were mounting.
    We soon sold the nice house, the ATV’s and the other toys we had bought. We moved into a rental house that was in very poor condition so we could start paying down the mountain of debt we had accumulated. In that shabby little rental, we found ourselves. We discovered the fun of playing with our children. We found the rest of actually taking an off day. We rediscovered afternoons at the lake and long Sunday drives. We were broke, but somehow we were finding happiness. Our journey had begun.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJ.D. Rockefeller
    Release dateJul 3, 2015
    ISBN9781311464187
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    How to Live Well While Spending Less
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    J.D. Rockefeller

    J.D. Rockefeller is an internationally renowned author with a simple yet engaging writing style. An avid world traveler and wine connoisseur, he enjoys looking at the world through a writer's lens and putting his thoughts to paper everywhere he goes. Mr. Rockefeller is also a certified Bikram Yoga and Ashtanga Yoga Teacher. He rigorously meditates for up to 2 hours a day. Thus, yoga, Chakras and meditation are also very well loved subjects for the author and topics that he truly enjoys covering in his literary works. We invite you to stay tuned for many of his upcoming writings at www.myfreeebookdownload.com Message from the Author: "It is my absolute pleasure to connect with you, my readers, on topics that you enjoy and want to learn more about. As a writer, it is my passion to learn about and research exciting subjects as well as bring you practical knowledge that may help you to enhance your daily life. Some of the topics I enjoy reading and writing about are: Chakra Balancing, Meditation Techniques, Wiccan Rituals, Magic Spells and more. I sincerely hope that you will accompany me on this beautiful journey of knowledge which will not only entertain you but will also richly broaden your intellectual horizons. Please know that one of my true passions is to interact with my readers and to learn what they like reading about as well as get their feedback on my work. So, feel free to reach out to me at any time. I am here for you and because of you: my readers who have followed me and continue to share my work year after year." I also enjoy featuring books by other authors whose work I admire.

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