As the household money manager, Tony admits that he has made a lot of mistakes in managing his, his wife Trish and their three children's lives. Much of their money has gone toward his lifelong obsession with low rider cars, he having stopped counting how many cars he's owned in his life when he hit number eighty-five. His parents bailed them out financially once paying off their then $36,000 consumer debt, which required them to re-mortgage their house, on the promise that Tony and Trish would change their ways.