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Many years ago my “Grandma Del”—who endured the Great Depression—taught me something that I didn’t appreciate until I was collecting Social Security.
ОглавлениеBack in the 1950s, a ballpoint pen refill cost ten cents and sales tax was five percent. She needed two refills. If she purchased them together, she’d have to pay a penny tax. If she made two ten-cent purchases—no tax.
Lesson: Pennies, nickels and dimes (either spent or saved) really do add up to become dollars, and more.
