It was pathetic! We were broke again and we had been millionaires living in a six bedroom four bath home in Coral Springs, Florida (in the Coral Hills section) on 2.75 acres with over 100 trees (mostly Australian pines). There was a little brook running through the property and we had the largest swimming pool in the neighborhood. We also had a lighted tennis court with a ball machine. There was a library with a fireplace, a true three car garage, a circle drive, laundry room, mud room, marble floors – it was a dream home. And now here we are living in a trailer since we had to give back our only other housing at the time – a used rented motor home with a wheel chair lift. Don’t ask! My mom had bought the trailer when she moved to Florida and then because of Hurricanes moved back to St. Louis. Before she moved out of her trailer, Evelyn, my wife – saintly woman that she is, and I lived in the used, rented motorhome and we were so broke that we paid our lot rent by bartering hedge trimming. The hedges surrounding the park were 10 to 12 feet high and after 8 hours of muscling that gas powered hedge trimmer I felt like a piece of doggy poopoo! How in the hell did we get ourselves into this situation and more important how in the heaven would we get out…
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Easy come, easy go!
Hi John,
Isn’t that better than “hard come, easy go” which just happened to a lot of people during this downturn. I am definitely up for “easy come” right now. Maybe I’ll try easy come and hard go. Nah!
Garland
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