Being Economical

I mentioned before that since we were both college students when we married, we did everything the most economically that we could.  Fortunately for us, my Uncle Hienie (his nickname was given to him by his Army buddies because he liked Hieniken Beer best) knew people who gave us discounts for things we needed.

He got us our wedding invitations at cost.  I thought they were the neatest thing, the nicest I'd ever seen.  It was a design of hearts that opened at the center of the front of the card and folded into itself.  I have seen others in that fashion since then and I still think they are really beautiful cards.

But Uncle Hienie didn't know a baker, and neither did we.   We had to order a cake from a bakery.  It was the biggest expense of the wedding.

We didn't have a honeymoon. We needed to get to school and set up housekeeping in our apartment there.  So we headed back to school, to Nyack, NY, and still being practical, we took Ellen back with us.  Ellen was pinching pennies as hard as we were and it was the most economical way we could think of for her to get to school, too.

Marlin worked for the school in the maintenance department.  Because of that, he was able to get us a one room apartment in the basement of the newly opened men's dorm, Mosley Hall.  We paid $15 a month for that little apartment and it suited our needs wonderfully.  I got a job as a checkout clerk at Grand Union, a grocery store.  We lived frugally but we were together.

Posted by: NJ on 8/25/2004 7:29:59 AM , 3 comments