Comments on: How Would You React If Someone Stole Your Money? https://www.onefrugalgirl.com/how-would-you-react-if-someone-stole-your-money/ Earn, Save, and Live Joyfully. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:47:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Cindy Brick https://www.onefrugalgirl.com/how-would-you-react-if-someone-stole-your-money/comment-page-1/#comment-2582 Tue, 21 Sep 2010 18:56:10 +0000 http://www.onefrugalgirl.com/?p=839#comment-2582 We invested $7000 in a 'wireless licenses' company Husband heard about on a radio show…and never heard another word after the check had been cashed. (I nearly stopped payment on it, and have kicked myself for not following up on my instinct.)
That was at a time when that money WAS our retirement. But we felt we were young, it was a try…and we'd do ok without it. (And we did.)
It's been harder to see stock $$ disappear in the last few years. But I continue to believe that even if we lost absolutely everything, Husband and I would find work and a place to live. We can each do a variety of things — and insisted on teaching our daughters to do the same. One of those things, surely, can be of use for work. At the very worst, we could camp somewhere, or camp in a relative's yard in return for work…

]]> By: Newlyweds on a Budget https://www.onefrugalgirl.com/how-would-you-react-if-someone-stole-your-money/comment-page-1/#comment-2581 Tue, 21 Sep 2010 18:32:28 +0000 http://www.onefrugalgirl.com/?p=839#comment-2581 It's amazing what a person can endure in the face of tragedy.

Even though we're pretty broke most of the time, I am constantly trying to remind myself how rich we are in other ways.

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