Thank you so much for your reply. I have to take into consideration that their past life was no where near as affluent as mine was. They have had to scrape a living together without much money available to them. So not really surprising that money plays a very important part in their lives, as it does to me now, and they are good people. I did not understand their philosophy, I do now! Look on the bright side, they introduced me to Steemit!