On Christian bashing posts, have read phrases deriding church people for having the nice house, with the picket fence - comes off like...

well, envy.  But here's the deal:  ever wonder how these church-going families are able to have both the house (all nice) and the reasonably late model car/s either paid in full, or near so?  And not just that: there are you are, sitting in the pew, and again, before the service or after, another very married couple is chit-chatting with another very married couple about a recent investment  vaca/visit.  Oh wait, and on top of that, atleast some of these couples tithe - atleast on most sundays; that's some serious change - and the missions fund isn't a tithe; that's an offering - that's extra.

So, it's only human to wonder, how the horacio do they do it?  After all, the stats say that about half of american adults would be hard pressed to cough up $1,000 to cover an unforeseen expense.  Well, kind of goes like this: when you're not blowing money on smokes/beer/lottery/idiot teevee subs...boy howdy, doesn't take long for money to add up between paydays.  And these 60-something couples are still married, still sitting close together, and enjoying their retirement.

Yeah, that 'el get the yellow teeth of the ungodly to knashing.