Two generations, one sheet of paper. And Linda said the words that changed everything: “It ends with us.”
Linda and Tom tried everything: extra shifts, a budgeting app, coupons, even a loan to combine the cards. Then Linda found a drawer of unopened bills in her late mother’s kitchen and realized she had one just like it.
They followed the pillars, in order. A few months later, they weren’t rich. That was never the point. But when the car needed tires, the money was waiting in the storehouse. And one card was paid off.
Linda, 61, and Tom, 64