 RickPremium,MVM
join:2001-02-06
Waterbury, CT | Not to be unsympathetic but I really don't feel sorry for her.
Looking back on many things we all might do in our lifetimes, the time value of money can make them extremely expensive.
Did you ever add up what that MORTGAGE will cost you over 30 years time?
Don't fall over when looking at the number in case you don't know it.
Anything that is rented/leased or financed in some way is generally going to be very expensive. And it's why cash is king. The other factor is simply human nature. Like it or not, most of us as we get older will become much more set in our ways. I've had older relatives where I pointed different things out to them and have basically been told ..thanks, but no thanks for trying to save me anything.
"I know what I want..I know who I want it from..and at this stage of the game..I'm not changing now."
This woman was 60 to 61 years old when the option to change this agreement was there. She didn't take it.
Unless she was senile at which point she should have had a guardian anyway..she made that decision and it obviously wasn't all that important to her to save whatever the difference was.
You also have to realize that long ago..phones were much more expensive. It's comparable to what cable modems used to cost, or any technology for that matter..and why even for myself, at one point it made more sense to just rent it from the cable co. That was true with phones too.
These days..? No, they're a dime a dozen..much like it makes more sense usually to own a modem instead.
But there are surely people out there who do know better..but decide anyway to lease theirs.
Anyways..the bottom line I think is the she's old argument really doesn't wash with me. I've had too many older relatives and found that many times..it's just like talking to a wall. Because they're just too set in their ways.
Just like I will be too I'm sure. 
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