Gold

It is just a normal Saturday for Peter and his wife Annie. The couple gets up in the morning and cleans the house, cut the grass, and tend to the garden. Annie works on the garden while Peter finishes cutting the grass.

Annie starts digging up plants that she wanted to replace for the new season. She was digging when she was stopped by something hard in the ground.

"I wonder what this is," Annie said.
She put the shovel down and started digging with her hands. Pushing the dirt out the way, a shining light flashed in her eyes. Annie reached into the ground and pulled out a nugget; a nugget of gold.

"Peter, Peter," Annie told across the yard. "Look what I found."

Peter rushed over to her side.
"What is it," he asked not paying close attention to what she was holding in her hand.

Annie held her hand up to him. The gold was shining brighter than the sun.

"Is that what I think it is," Peter said.
"It is a nugget of gold Peter," Annie said enthusiastically. "We are rich."

Peter and Annie rushed into their house and sat the gold nugget on the table.

"What are we going to do with it," Annie said.
"What do you mean what are we going to do," Peter said. "We are going to spend it.

Annie looked at him with a puzzled face.

"We do not want to spend it all Peter," Annie said. "We have to use this wisely like for bills and things."

Peter became angry with Annie.
"Why Annie," he said. "We can use this money for whatever we want, and you want to use it for expenses? That is not what I was going for."

"That would be the smart thing to do,"  Annie said.

"Well, I am going to do things my way and spend it on whatever I want," Peter said.

Peter took the nugget of gold and stormed out of the house. Annie did not look worried.

"When all the money is gone, he will realize that he only bought materialistic things that we do not need," she said to herself.

Later on in the day, Peter came in the house with bags hanging from his shoulder and hands.

"Annie, Annie can you help me," he asked.

Annie came down the stairs to see all the bags that he brought in.

"What is all this stuff," she said.
"I figured since we have the money, I would buy you some nice things for a change," Peter said.
"That's nice of you to do that but-," Annie said with a fake grin. "We really can not afford all of this stuff. I know image is probably important but, this is too much."

There were bills from earlier in the day laying on the table. Annie picked them up and handed them to him.

"Priorities come first before luxury Peter," she said walking upstairs.

Peter looked at her.
"She is right," he mumbled to himself.

Annie walk in the room to start folding close when Peter came in.

"You are right Annie," he said. "I just wanted you to feel special and have finer things than what you have now."
Annie looked at him and smiled.

"I feel special everyday waking up to the person that I love the most," she said. "I do not need the fancy clothes, shoes, and cars. That does not defined me or you."

"I am going to take all the gifts back and pay off the bills," Peter said. "Maybe one day we will get to the place where we can buy anything we want."

"Remember what I said", Annie replied. "Luxury is all good, but priorities rain over it."