Woolleybugger
Mayor
"Ann Romney, speaking to the Boston Globe on October 20th, 1994: "They were not easy years. You have to understand, I was raised in a lovely neighborhood, as was Mitt, and at BYU, we moved into a $62-a-month basement apartment with a cement floor and lived there two years as students with no income. It was tiny. And I didn’t have money to carpet the floor. But you can get remnants, samples, so I glued them together, all different colors. It looked awful, but it was carpeting.
"We were happy, studying hard. Neither one of us had a job, because Mitt had enough of an investment from stock that we could sell off a little at a time. The stock came from Mitt’s father. When he took over American Motors, the stock was worth nothing. But he invested Mitt’s birthday money year to year -- it wasn’t much, a few thousand, but he put it into American Motors because he believed in himself. Five years later, stock that had been $6 a share was $96 and Mitt cashed it so we could live and pay for education.
Mitt and I walked to class together, shared housekeeping, had a lot of pasta and tuna fish and learned hard lessons. We had our first child in that tiny apartment. We couldn’t afford a desk, so we used a door propped on sawhorses in our bedroom. It was a big door, so we could study on it together. And we bought a portable crib, took the legs off and put it on the desk while we studied. I had a baby sitter during class time, but otherwise, I’d hold my son on my lap while I studied.
"Right after Mitt graduated in 1975, we had our third boy and it was about the time Mitt’s first paycheck came along. So, we were married a long time before we had any income, about five years as struggling students. Now, every once in a while, we say if things get rough, we can go back to a $62-a-month apartment and be happy. All we need is each other and a little corner and we’ll be fine.""
Please allow me to cut and paste this from an entry by a blogger on another blog which was copied from another blog without showing the exact line of cut and pastes to the original Boston Globe piece in 1994. I know I broke some rules here but I do heartily acknowledge that this work is not mine. It is quite informative though. Just so everyone knows, 64 bucks a month in that era was about the going price for apartments. I rented my first house in 74 in downtown Santa Barbara for 160 bucks a month. And SB was always an expensive town even back then. As for Provo, well, its still a cheap town to live in relatively speaking. She tells this story like someone used to tell stories about walking four miles in the snow to school and back. The difference is, that walking to school story was about truly poor and desperate people. Her story is about living off stock her father in law set aside while he was CEO of one of the big four car companies in America. Not exactly the same deal.
"We were happy, studying hard. Neither one of us had a job, because Mitt had enough of an investment from stock that we could sell off a little at a time. The stock came from Mitt’s father. When he took over American Motors, the stock was worth nothing. But he invested Mitt’s birthday money year to year -- it wasn’t much, a few thousand, but he put it into American Motors because he believed in himself. Five years later, stock that had been $6 a share was $96 and Mitt cashed it so we could live and pay for education.
Mitt and I walked to class together, shared housekeeping, had a lot of pasta and tuna fish and learned hard lessons. We had our first child in that tiny apartment. We couldn’t afford a desk, so we used a door propped on sawhorses in our bedroom. It was a big door, so we could study on it together. And we bought a portable crib, took the legs off and put it on the desk while we studied. I had a baby sitter during class time, but otherwise, I’d hold my son on my lap while I studied.
"Right after Mitt graduated in 1975, we had our third boy and it was about the time Mitt’s first paycheck came along. So, we were married a long time before we had any income, about five years as struggling students. Now, every once in a while, we say if things get rough, we can go back to a $62-a-month apartment and be happy. All we need is each other and a little corner and we’ll be fine.""
Please allow me to cut and paste this from an entry by a blogger on another blog which was copied from another blog without showing the exact line of cut and pastes to the original Boston Globe piece in 1994. I know I broke some rules here but I do heartily acknowledge that this work is not mine. It is quite informative though. Just so everyone knows, 64 bucks a month in that era was about the going price for apartments. I rented my first house in 74 in downtown Santa Barbara for 160 bucks a month. And SB was always an expensive town even back then. As for Provo, well, its still a cheap town to live in relatively speaking. She tells this story like someone used to tell stories about walking four miles in the snow to school and back. The difference is, that walking to school story was about truly poor and desperate people. Her story is about living off stock her father in law set aside while he was CEO of one of the big four car companies in America. Not exactly the same deal.
