My Papa Jun🚀 always has been financially💸 stable, ever since he established myself. He and my Mami Aya😷 worked hard, but I’ve never seen them struggle to make ends meet. They, after almost four decades of 💍marriage, have led a comfortable lifestyle with their share of more 🚢travels⚓️ since they started having an empty nest around their Silver (25th Wedding) 💒Anniversary👰🏻
… following taking several abroad trips✈️ during their tour in 🇧🇪Europe, where I was born …
Flashback Friday: Isn’t my dad handsome in uniform? Some things never change: he’s still smitten by my mom to this very day. Happy Early Father’s Day! 👔
… plus other fun family flights and road🚘 adventures!
While my parents have impeccable taste in 🍷fine things, they do not live for material possessions; they’re smart in their savings, and they spend wisely ~ “on necessary things”. Yes, my mom loves to 👜shop, but she’s never gone beyond her means and usually hits clearance racks or bargain aisles to score 👛designer products at discounted prices.
I’m the one with 🍹champagne🍸 taste on a 🍺beer🍻 budget.
Even though my dad has taught me fundamentals (math📐 * 🔭science🔬 * 🇺🇸politics) growing up and accompanied me to the bank to open my very first accounts that I still maintain to this day, I admit that I’ve gotten carried away and spent recklessly (on higher-end name-brand everything and flights to rack up the miles on one of my credit cards) when I earned substantial income and even after. Fortunately, my father has furnished these guidelines for me to get my finances back in order:
Both of these articles above come from the Retire Online website.
🎓ConGRADulations, SBHS Class of 2015, my 2014 TAMUK Summer Superstars🌠
The Elaine Dispo Journal 