When my father married my mother in , he gave my mother a crown coin and told her to keep it in the back of her purse and not spend it. This would mean that she always felt that she was protected and would always have money if she really needed it.

When I got married in  my husband who had heard this story obtained a crown for me and I have always kept it in my wallet and I have always had enough for my needs.

A friend recently fell on hard times partly through external(外部的)circumstances and partly through poor planning. Friends and I have loaned her money, paid her bills, even given her food and tried to teach her budget techniques, but none of them has been a solution. She has just slipped deeper and deeper into financial trouble and depression.