Money, so they say...

In retrospect, 1988 was a bad year in terms of money management, even though we had some cash put aside there was still a tremendous and uncontrollable desire to keep digging the debt deeper, old habits die hard as they say.

I had paid off the Barclaycard, but merely replaced that with Canadian credit cards, plural there, in the push to establish ourselves we had embraced the North American way of life, which, coincidently, was very similar to the British one.

I still had a "I want it now" mentality and it was not readily apparent to my tiny brain that, although we had a thousand bucks in the savings account, going out and spending the equivalent on the "never never" was counterproductive.

It was going to get worse before it got better.