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"If you don't make the shift from spender to saver at some point in your lifetime, you are dooming yourself to poverty or having to work forever."   - Tom Benna, Father of the 401k

My Thoughts: 

Over the last year, my dh and I have had an entire attitude shift toward money and what it means and how it should be spent and saved.  God has really been speaking to us to get out of mortgage debt now that our other bills (cars & credit cards) are paid off.  This has been a difficult adjustment for our immediate families to understand because this is such a different way of thinking about money and they are so caught up in the worldview of commercialism and materialism that it is hard for them to understand the idea of not spending but saving instead.  I get the feeling that they look at us and think we are just bazaar but we look at them and think "they just don't get it".  This quote just helped to remind me why we are fighting the opinions of everything around us, including our families.