[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The concept of "saving" money by having to outlay more money alwaysThis reminds me of an old episode of I Love Lucy where Lucy wants to buy a new refrigerator. The refrigerator salesman has told Lucy that the new refrigerator will save enough money to pay for itself.
perplexed me. I'm as guilty of thinking about things this way as anyone
else.
So Lucy gets her courage up to ask Ricky to buy her a new refrigerator. She tells Ricky what the salesman said, and Ricky replies, "When the new refrigerator has saved enough money to pay for itself, then it can go buy itself."
Michael Cross
