The roots of your family tree have some good foundational support… figure it out as soon as you can.
I ran across a set of questions in a book by Jeff Yeager, The Ultimate Cheapskate’s Road Map to True Riches, that I just had to share. I plan to interview my grandparents using these questions in the near future (next month or so). I have a good guess at what the answers will be… basically the minimum / opposite of my answers. :) So here goes the list:
Play “Twenty (20) Questions” with your grandparents [Keeping up with Grandpa Jones] Answer these for yourself and then ask your grandparents, too.
20 Questions to Ask Your Mentoring Grandparents:
- Years married?
- Number of divorces?
- Number of children?
- Number of hours spent each week enjoying time with family and friends?
- Number of evening meals eaten at home each week with family?
- Number of meals cooked at home per week?
- Number of family vacations per year?
- Number of household televisions?
- Number of hours each week devoted to electronic entertainment?
- Years of formal education?
- Number of different jobs held as an adult?
- Do you have a working spouse or two income family?
- Number of weekends you work each year?
- Hours spent commuting each week?
- Number of different houses you’ve lived in?
- Number of bedrooms / baths in the house?
- Number of years to pay out your home morgage(s)?
- Number of cars you’ve owned?
- Treatment for depression, anxiety, stress, durg & alcohol problems, or related illnesses?
- Biggest regret on your death bed?
Tell me these answers won’t be:
- sobering
- enlightening
- entertaining
- useful
Forget about “The Joneses”. We need to aspire to be more like grandpa and grandma.