CHAPTER 10
What’s So Hard About Making Change?
I learned to deal with change at an early age. My parents were both frugal. My dad was a truck driver and my mom was a waitress at a local sandwich shop. They were World War II–era kids who learned how to pinch a penny. My mom described how, when she was in her 20s, young women saved money on pantyhose by cutting off the leg of a pair with a run in it and matching it with another pair with the opposite leg cut off from a similar run. Voila! A new pair of pantyhose.
My parents ran a tight ship. Whenever I asked for something for Christmas or for my birthday, they would listen. But there was often a ...
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