- Sunday. November 4. 1984 - North Shore News Grey Cup!!! Edmonton Alberta Nov. 16 - 19 Includes: Return Airfare / 3 nights accommodation / Grey Cup tickets / Transfers & All Taxes. a SQ 19” per person. Heritage Tours 293-1801 NEWS photo Chris Cameron NORTH VANCOUVER District firemen have been busy this weekend, saving lives by soliciting funds. The firemen’s an- nual drive to raise funds for Muscular Dystropby — and aid children such as Greg Watson and Chad Donald — was car- ried out Friday and Saturday by firemen like Rick Suiter. Strictly personal by Bob Hunter NE WAY TO FIND OUT if couples really care about each other is to see if they fight about serious. money. Ninety per cent of the peo- ple you meet will admit they fight with their loved one about money. The other ten per cent he People who don't have any money at all argue about it probably the most, although if they don't even have mickels to cub together, they might be far pone to argue mote fo mean, there are a million scams out there ip the big city comes fo [wo too any If worse WORSE, you always yon the can Clerpy on pet INtO pohtlres At the scale, othe people the lot ol money seem Fo argue about i fairly passtonately too They Ret about an terest rates as the guy in the lie al end of with 4 pUSE as upset the offtee who reahizes now he shouldn't have looked himself inte a five year ted teage on bas house a year apo even though to scemed like such a good idea then Moncey makes ous anal If they don’t, they’re not retentive. It flushes our secret selves out into the open. It can also cause no end of em- barrassment, Ike when you get caught hissing at) your wife in pubhe ‘‘You bought what?’’ Or your neighbours hear her screaming at you ‘You bought what?" It makes us say things we wish we'd never said, hke ‘‘Keep the change’ or “Oh, don't even look at the price!’ Money also creates stereo types, doesn’t 17 There rs of course the classic character with the Porsche who won't tip) The panhandler who orders rounds for cverybouds the parstmomous Cham smoking senior exccutive who puts every penny into long term tivestimengs oven (hough you know he's gong to dic of lung cameer or heart attack on a weck One that few of us had to learn on the street or in back alleys thing was how to fight about money. That’s one area where most parents can be credited with having done it openly in the home where the children could watch and learn. (‘‘You bought what?’’) Probably the smartest way to fight about money is in front of your fmends. They get to see how mdiculously petty you and your wife or husband really are, just like them. They go home that night having something to talk about. You and your spouse vow out of shame never to fight about money in public again. Everybody wins. And then there are the fights about money between members of the family, not just) mano-a-mana_ blood- baths between life partners. Those are the ones where the background karma_ really begins to hang out Twisty stuft | heard of one case recently where four children had to split a company left to them by their father The son grab- bed control The three sisters ganged up and kicked him oul Sibling boardroom Ouch! Most people are very con politics fused when they arguc about money They're really talking about them deprived child hoods The trouble os, everybody had a deprived childhood And even if didn't, you you must have figured out by now that you actually were deprived ina that poor”! million ways other so called hads werent amd seo therefore you have a porfedt right to howl what?" 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