If I have said it once, I will say it a thousand times more; communication is key. So many times in life we run into problems because we assume that the other person knows what we are talking about. Take my husband as an example; he will be telling me about his day and instead of using proper nouns, he jumps to pronouns. For some reason he expects me to be able to read his mind because we have been married for 30 years. He will be talking away about someone but never use a name, or state what that person was doing with the “it”. All I know is someone was doing something with an undescribed item of interest. It could have been a wild herd of elephants running amok in a daycare for all I know.

I drive a used car. It’s a nice one, a Chevy Suburban that we have been putting money in to for a while. Why not buy new? Because I own this one. The cost of repairing my car is less than the payments on one that is new. Buying a new one would be around $700 a month (for a similar model) and so far the repairs haven’t added up to that much in one year.