Well, it's Friday

Money, get away.
Get a good job with good pay and you're okay.
Money, it's a gas.
Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash.
New car, caviar, four star daydream,
Think I'll buy me a football team.

Money, get back.
I'm all right jack keep your hands off of my stack.
Money, it's a hit.
Don't give me that do goody good bullshit.
I'm in the high-fidelity first class traveling set
And I think I need a lear jet.

Money, it's a crime.
Share it fairly but don't take a slice of my pie.
Money, so they say
Is the root of all evil today.
But if you ask for a raise it's no surprise that they're
Giving none away.


1. How much money is in your wallet right now?
$0. I hate going to the bank and I hate finding ATM's that belong to my bank even more. Screw all ya'll with those $2.00 charges! I rarely have cash on me, I'm a mugger's nightmare. Only when I travel or when I know I'm going to need it, e.g. to pay for parking when going downtown.

2. How much money would you need in the bank to feel secure? Rich?
To feel secure, I only need a few thousand in there, but to feel totally secure I'd like to have at least a year's worth of salary tucked away. Rich is always a moving target, especially these days. Honestly though, if you've got a million in the bank, you fit into my rich category. You're low-class rich, but still got more than I got. I think that to be truly wealthy you need to have enough cash in the bank where you can support your entire lifestyle off of the interest.

3. If someone gave you $100, no strings attached, what would you do with it?
Can't do much with $100 these days. What would I do with it? Depends on who gave it to me.

4. If someone gave you $1 Million, no strings attached, what would you do with it?
Pay off the plastic, the car and the house, upgrade every tool/machine in my shop and then it's off to the Carribean for a while with a bunch of family and friends. I'd probably spend most of it, and what I didn't spend would become college money for Ava. I wouldn't be too awfuly pressed to save it all because with no house, car or credit card payments, I'd have a hell of a lot of money left over every month to stash away.

5. How much does something have to cost before it starts counting as "real" money, as a purchase to be considered and evaluated, but below which you'll buy without really thinking about it?
This is actually a tough question because it really boils down to what I'm spending it on. I can spend $200 on a typical run to Target without batting an eye. To me, this is more about what I expect to spend. Like the other day I went to the lumber yard and bought some wood. I figured it would be somewhere around $30 for everything. When it rang up at $75 I was shocked and mad about spending that much. But then I'll go buy a $100 bottle of champagne and not think too much of it. Other than maybe a little guilt...spending more on something to drink than a lot of people have to spend on food every week. When it comes down to it, I don't start thinking too hard about purchases until they are in the neighborhood of $400. But again, depends on what I'm buying. Things don't start to look really expensive till you hit that $1,000 threshold.