20 Questions to Ask Your Mentoring Grandparents

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:

1. Years married?
2. Number of divorces?
3. Number of children?
4. Number of hours spent each week enjoying time with family and friends?
5. Number of evening meals eaten at home each week with family?
6. Number of meals cooked at home per week?
7. Number of family vacations per year?
8. Number of household televisions?
9. Number of hours each week devoted to electronic entertainment?
10. Years of formal education?
11. Number of different jobs held as an adult?
12. Do you have a working spouse or two income family?
13. Number of weekends you work each year?
14. Hours spent commuting each week?
15. Number of different houses you’ve lived in?
16. Number of bedrooms / baths in the house?
17. Number of years to pay out your home morgage(s)?
18. Number of cars you’ve owned?
19. Treatment for depression, anxiety, stress, durg & alcohol problems, or related illnesses?
20. 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.