“Why is it that the wedding date is a painful memory for the man?”
Don’t You think You can answer that yourself, IF, You are honest about how You have treated your “Man” since You captured him? Just sayin! :-( /s/ maybe......
No truer words were ever written! Still stupid in my 50's!
Color me clueless but I have no idea what her objection is to his using a gift certificate.
A man who makes good money but doesn’t squander it....who is a patriot....and who encourages a woman to eat onions without reproach....where, oh where, can I find a man like this???
After the third or forth time I heard one of them loudly complaining, "where have all the GOOD men gone?"
I replied, "We got married to the good women."
“I am not going to date a guy who drives a crappier car than I do and lives in a crappier apartment than I do,”a woman who knows true love I bet.
I'll take a wild stab at it and say, 'because the men in her life have good taste.'
A few years back I dated a guy who was shall we say, quite frugal.
And I didn’t have any problem with his frugality at first; he had a good stable well paying job, a nice home that he hoped to pay off in a few years, didn’t drive a late model fancy car, didn’t spend his money foolishly, saved, invested, wasn’t in any credit card debt: all very good things in my opinion that at first blush made me think he might be a “keeper”.
He was fond of using coupons and discount cards – again not a problem with me!
So what was the problem?
Well the problem was that he was rather overly obsessed with saving a few bucks and with money in general.
For instance, he’d take me out for dinner at a nice restaurant, ask me if I enjoyed the meal then go into great detail about how he found this coupon or used this or that discount card and about how much money he had saved and how proud he was about himself. Again I have no problem with my date using a coupon or discount card but when he spends more than 20 minutes of our date explaining how smart he is for doing that, that’s not what I consider a particularly good date.
And it wasn’t as if I was expecting to be wined and dined all the time. I had an equally good job and income and nice home and was more than willing to pick up the tab now and then or at least chip in to pay the tip. I cooked meals for him at my home and we stayed in to watch a movie – to me, not a bad way to spend an evening.
One Sunday we planned to take a picnic at a local park, a very romantic gesture IMO. But when I met him at his house that morning, he had all the local newspapers spread out and all the grocery store flyers and a game plan on what stores we should go to in order to buy what items we needed for our picnic at the absolute cheapest price. Two hours spent visiting four grocery stores to save all of about two dollars?
Another time he came with me to buy a birthday present for one of my teenage nieces and admonished me for spending too much money at Old Navy (I think I spent all of about $40) and then insisted that we go to a dollar store for the wrapping paper and birthday card.
He also told me that buying my make up at a department store was a waste of money as I could get the same thing at the Dollar Store.
He was also engaged in a very heated and bitter argument with his sister over their parent’s estate, and his parents were still both alive at the time.
One day I gave him the “You’re a really nice guy but…I’m in a different place in my life…It’s not you it’s me… Let’s just be friends” speech and ran away as quickly as I could. Can you blame me? Does that make me a shallow?
Probably not.
They need a little perspective.
A doctor? Crappy car? Crappy apartment? Gift certificate?
I wonder if he was testing her?
If I was very wealthy, I’d rent a lesser apartment, drive a lesser car, date women and see which ones were genuine and which ones were superficial.
Dave Ramsey pickup lines for 2009
You look familiar ... didn’t I deliver a pizza to you last week?
You’re so hot you could melt my debt snowball.
Good thing I have identity theft insurance, because you stole my heart!
Call me your mutual fund, honey ... ‘cause with you, I’m showing interest.
Are you unpaid credit card debt? Because you have got FINE written all over you!
If you turn me down, my life will look like a country song.
When I saw you, my jaw dropped like the value of a new car.
You should be my retirement plan ... you’d put the “OK” in my 401k.
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I love these. I suppose I wouldn’t qualify for Dana.
And last years:
still have money in my “restaurant” envelope ... can I buy you dinner?
Would you like to dance? I’d love to show you my Baby Steps.
Why am I nervous about talking to you? Because you’re better than I deserve.
Allow me to introduce myself ... I am “borrower”, and you must be “lender”.
Good thing I got just term life insurance ... because I saw you and my heart stopped!
You can’t spell Financial Peace University without U and I.
I’ve already kicked Sallie Mae out. Want to take her place?
I just bought a bass boat with cash ... and it’s a good thing, because you’re quite a catch!
I’m not mortgage interest baby ... don’t write me off.
The good news? I’m debt free. The better news? I’m also date free.
What would you say if I asked you out? (response: no). That’s not good enough
Courtesy of one of Dave’s listeners On a scale of 350-850, I’m a Zero!