The “Dear Abby” Columnist, Abigail Van Buren, received the following letter from a frustrated reader:
Dear Abby: My husband hates to spend money! I cut my own hair and make my own clothes, and I have to account for every nickel I spend. Meanwhile he has a stack of savings bonds put away that would choke a cow. How do I get some money out of him before we are both called to our final judgment? He says he’s saving for a rainy day.
The letter was signed, “Forty Years Hitched.”
Dear Abby wrote the following response:
Dear Hitched: Tell him it’s raining!
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