The day I couldn’t afford a $3 trip to Starbucks

When I lived with my parents, I handled 3 jobs at a time. Working between Dunkin Donuts, Pizza Hut and Zales I put in at least 14 hours a day, sometimes 7 days a week. This allowed me to help my parents with their bills and educate my younger brother & sister. Few years later I met my husband Sonny who at the time had two perfume stores in local malls in Milwaukee, WI. Working hard we built it into a seven figure business by having 5 mall locations and by exhibiting in 13 trade shows a year. I'll be honest, with such a large turn over small amounts like five-ten bucks didn't mean much to me until we started losing sales and eventually were left with our last store and no employees. While working there one afternoon I received a flyer from the mall informing us that Starbucks just opened for business & they were giving $1 off to all mall employees for first couple of days. I got excited as I love their Chai Latte and immediately decided to get one only to realize.... ....I had NO money whatsoever!!! Quietly, I went to the back room, made myself tea by heating the water in microwave and ...
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