For someone who is very interested in his money, mostly because he needs it to fill up his car with gas, Nathan does a pretty bad job of keeping his cash organized.\u00a0 He’s got some in his bathroom drawer, some on the floor of his room, some in his backpack, and some spilling out of the cup holder in his car.\u00a0 And who knows where else.<\/p>\n
So he decided the other day to collect it all and see how much there was.\u00a0 Over $300.\u00a0\u00a0 He was thrilled.\u00a0 I was not.\u00a0 That’s a lot of money to have lying around.\u00a0 He put it all in a baggie and there it sits on the family room table.\u00a0 Still.<\/p>\n
But as he passed the table last night and glanced at the bag he said, “I need to get that money into my checking account.\u00a0 I don’t spend it if I can’t see it.”<\/p>\n
Ah, so true.\u00a0 So maybe there was a lesson in this after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For someone who is very interested in his money, mostly because he needs it to fill up his car with gas, Nathan does a pretty bad job of keeping his cash organized.\u00a0 He’s got some in his bathroom drawer, some on the floor of his room, some in his backpack, and some spilling out of the cup holder in his car.\u00a0 And who knows where else. So he decided the other day to collect it all and see how much…<\/p>\n