[quote] I guess some people just live beyond their means. [/quote]

What?? You mean that's not the American Way?

I wish high school taught people how to budget and live in the real world rather than just reading, writing and rithmatic. My parents taught me about budgeting and stuff (mostly because they didn't let us kids ask for the sun and expect it and we had to work and save up for things we wanted to buy as we got older) but I don't think a lot of parents teach these things because they don't know it themselves. Any new man I meet who I might consider a prospect will need to show me how they budget. I'm not falling into the spendthrift trap again.