Smart Money Smart Kids: Raising the Next Generation to Win with Money by Dave Ramsey & Rachel Cruze

Author:Dave Ramsey & Rachel Cruze [Ramsey, Dave]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lampo Press
Published: 2014-04-16T04:00:00+00:00

chapter seven

Debt

It IS a Four-Letter Word

Rachel: Well, this is interesting, I thought as the little piece of plastic sat there on the restaurant table. It was November of my sophomore year in college, and I was out on a date with a guy I had been hoping would ask me out. I had seen him around campus and we had many friends in common, so you could say that I had developed a bit of a distant crush on him for more than a year. When he finally asked me out to dinner, I was ecstatic! He picked me up, and of course we both had the first-date nerves and anxiety, but the night went great. We talked all through dinner and really hit it off. Then the bill came. Now, I wasn’t some crazy money girl who made everyone around me follow my no-debt rules. I did, however, like to watch how other people handled their money, so I was interested in what he’d pull out of his wallet. Call it “professional curiosity.” That’s when the guy I’d had a crush on for over a year pulled out his Capital One credit card, complete with a picture of an eagle soaring across it. I half expected Dad to burst through the doors from the kitchen with his giant pair of card-chopping scissors!

I thought, Oh man, this will be interesting if this relationship goes the distance. And sure enough, it did. That guy is now my husband, and looking back, we crack up about the fact that he paid for most of our dates in the first six months of our relationship with that Capital One soaring-eagle credit card. Obviously, once we got serious and marriage entered the discussion, we got on the same page about money. And no, I didn’t twist his arm to get rid of that card; he let that eagle soar off all on his own.

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