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Their New Bucket List Includes Eating Something Other Than Mac 'n Cheese
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This couple, having lived into their 60s, decided after the husband was told he had only a few months to live that they should compile a bucket list and go out and do all the things that they had wanted to do before he died. And then they got the tragic news that he wasn't dying after all. Oh, wait, that's not tragic. But it did leave them broke. Here's what they did: they gave away practically all of what they owned, they sold their house at a loss of $70,000, they blew $30,000 on a trip to Fiji figuring that his life insurance would cover the costs, and now they have $80,000 worth of credit card debt and they blew everything else they had on a business that didn't work out. So the good news of finding out that he's not suffering from terminal cancer has been tempered by the fact that they didn't exactly handle the initial news the way they should have. But if somebody told you that you were dying, would you be tempted to do it they didn't spend all the money you can't take with you? (New Zealand Herald: thanks to Jeff Katz at WXKS (Talk 1200)/Boston for the link)
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