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posted by sharlet on Jul 31

Just when I think I have caught up with the world again, I find out that once again as my Dad use to say I am “A day late and a dollar short.” All I want to do is buy my Grandson Gus a United States Savings Bond for his birthday, maybe start him on the road to saving for his collage fund. Turns out this is not an easy thing to do any more, you see you can no longer buy Bonds at your local Banks you have to buy them on line so being the modern woman that I think I am I figure no problem. WRONG!!!   Turns out as of January 1, 2012, the government no longer prints these wonderful jewels that we all coveted so much hoping that some day we would cash them in to pay for some wonderful dream we had.   OK, I say to my self “Self you can do this” but first I need to get social security numbers for Gus and his Dad, no problem right, so I ask my son. “Sure Mom I will get back to you” . Right but I give him the benefit of the doubt and wait  and wait, so I do what any Mother would do, I go over his head and ask his beautiful wife, Gus’s Mom. Armed with the information I need I head for my computer to do the Google thing, (I love Google by the way you can find out any thing you want to know about) and look up Savings Bonds. After that it all is a big blur, if I read right I need to open an account to buy a bond and so dose Gus. Gee I know he is really smart for his age but I am not sure if he knows how to sign his name yet. Anyway it turns out that my computer dose not have  an update enough operating system. Looks like I am still living in the dark ages.

Oh and don’t worry Gus, after all you are just going to be a year old on your birthday, Grandma has plenty of time to figure out the whole Collage thing!

Till next time World, its Sharlet