Comments on: Fall on hard times

By: YURI EZAKI

YURI EZAKI — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 06:19:49 +0000

In reply to Jeff. Thank you for your tips! Yes, what I mean is that mum always puts her money to work. She hates to sit on the money, which I do all the time ;)

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 15:26:20 +0000

In reply to YURI EZAKI.

Perfect example of ‘fall on hard times.’ A few tips: “furniture” is already plural, so you would not say “furniture.” The expression “never lets money go to sleep” is not common in English. I think you mean that she always “puts her money to work” – that means to invest it in at least an interest-bearing account, if not in other investments.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 15:20:57 +0000

In reply to Huy. Perfect example

By: YURI EZAKI

YURI EZAKI — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 14:10:17 +0000

After the war, my mother’s parents fell on hard times. Creditors came to seize her family’s property and pasted ‘red papers’, a sign of foreclosure, even on family’s furnitures. I don’t know how they recovered their foreclosed home, but living in rich neighborhood, mum’s schoolmate called their house a cattle barn, immensely hurting young mum’s feelings. That kind of experience is bad for kids growing up; now she goes shopping everywhere looking for sales, just to save a few cents. I must say she has never let us fall on hard times to this day, though, and she never lets money go to sleep either, buying up stocks which regularly pay dividends, while I dabble at foreign exchange markets and end up getting some hundred dollars more, after a decade’s investment. Yet it’s just sometimes, medical bills costs more than saving a few pennies at supermarkets, and I am more inclined to enjoy life itself.

By: Huy

Huy — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 04:21:37 +0000

When my friend’s business went bankrupt, he fell on hard times and had to sell his house and car to pay off debts, all while trying to provide for his family.