Fifty Dollars

Fifty dollars may not seem like a lot of money to most people ... but to poor students who dish out way too much money for med school and watch as our debt continually increases with ridiculously high interest rates ... IT'S A LOT!!!

For Christmas this year I gave Brad a $50 bill as his budget. I did this for two reasons.

#1 I didn't want him to spend a lot of money

#2 Being a banker and the crazy person that monitors our accounts the way I do it's really hard for Brad to surprise me without me knowing.

While at work on Friday I received a phone call from Wyoming Medical Center Security about Brad Oliverson's wallet being turned in. First I was confused on why they would be calling me at work. Then I remembered giving Brad one of my business cards. Somehow they must of made the connection and decided I was who they needed to call.

I left messages on Brad's phone and he was finally able to go pick up his wallet when he got out of surgery around 6 o'clock. And to his great disappointment the $50 bill was gone. WHO DOES THAT? His wallet was in his white coat in the doctors lounge. The wallet was taken out and the lab coat was stashed under a bunch of other white coats.

Sad thing is... earlier this year my purse was stolen at church. Maybe we just get too comfortable at certain places and think the best of people. Why would any of the doctors or nurses take a wallet and obviously you trust people at church.

And both times we had cash. I'm addicted to credit card reward points so I never carry cash and neither does Brad. Isn't it ironic that it can take up to a year of our frugal spending to get enough reward points to earn $50.