The Miser

So now I have to decide what to spend it on. As is becoming recent tradition after the chicken hatching post I turned to Aesop for inspiration. Cars were not commonplace in 600BC though so instead I took inspiration of how not to spend my money in the story of The Miser:-

A MISER sold all that he had and bought a lump of gold, which he buried in a hole in the ground by the side of an old wall and went to look at daily. One of his workmen observed his frequent visits to the spot and decided to watch his movements. He soon
discovered the secret of the hidden treasure, and digging down, came to the lump of gold, and stole it. The Miser, on his next visit, found the hole empty and began to tear his hair and to make loud lamentations. A neighbour, seeing him overcome with
grief and learning the cause, said, "Pray do not grieve so; but go and take a stone, and place it in the hole, and fancy that the gold is still lying there. It will do you quite the same service; for when the gold was there, you had it not, as you did
not make the slightest use of it." !Aesop

And the moral of the story is - The true value of money is not in its possession but in its use. Very appropriate I feel