Tough times call for creative gifting

Richard, at Three Score and Ten tells the story of a friend who got a very creative gift for high school graduation.

"One of the guys in my high school class received a gift that is probably unique, at least I have never heard its duplicate. His father was a trucker, or contractor, or something like that. He gave his son a great big, brand new, six wheel, diesel dump truck, with a belly dump. He told his son that he should go to college if he wished, or go full time into the trucking business, but if he wished to sell the truck he had to wait at least six years. By then the truck would either have become a permanent part of his life, or it would have financed four or five years of college." The friend then sold shares in his "business" and they all made money. Read more at 3 Score and 10