Funny about Money

Funny about Money

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9 years ago @ I Pick Up Pennies - Thanksgiving day memories · 0 replies · +1 points

Ah, those tea-partying relatives!

Friend of mine used to say "a vacation with relatives is not a vacation."

Sounds like your teaching aunt was going through an awful time to start with, which would've made any job less than fun. Poor gal!

These two critters were new college grads, early 20s, footloose and fancy-free, at a time of life when they should have been open to new adventures. What a shame they couldn't get over themselves enough to come to know some of the Navajo people, who can be extraordinarily warm and kind and whose history is amazing. And the Hopi is just up the road -- silverwork to boggle your mind, and an entirely different people with an equally amazing history and culture.

Some punkins, huh?

13 years ago @ I Pick Up Pennies - Some very un-frugal co... · 0 replies · +2 points

If you can find someone to clean for $50 or $65, please...send them my way, too! Around here, the going rate is $80 to $100.

Have you tried Trader Joe's? They have a lot of frozen meals and edibles that will neither bankrupt you or pizzen you. Most of their stuff is better than the best frozen prepared food in a regular grocery store. While you're there you can pick up some fresh produce to round out the diet a bit.

Also Costco has products that provide nourishing meals in ready-to-microwave form. Their soups (in the deli area) are awesome; check the freezer and refrigerator cases for stuff you can heat & eat.

Prepared food is not as cheap as the full DIY cooking gig, but it sure would beat home delivery.

13 years ago @ I Pick Up Pennies - I am blessed · 0 replies · +1 points

What an awesome post.

It sounds like the worst of the hard times may be over. I hope things keep getting better and better for both of you.

13 years ago @ Dodgeblogium - Gale CoTV · 0 replies · +1 points

Thanks for including Funny's squib on AZ's latest take-down of its state educational system. Love CotV -- because it covers so many different things.

13 years ago @ Well-Heeled, With a Mi... - Carnival of Personal F... · 0 replies · +1 points

Great story! Thanks for hosting...and thanks for including Funny's post on gold bugs, burglars, and spare cash to pay off your credit cards.

13 years ago @ I Pick Up Pennies - I'm stopping my newspaper · 0 replies · +1 points

??? P.S. I dunno how that weird code got in there...one slip of the finger after another!!!

13 years ago @ I Pick Up Pennies - I'm stopping my newspaper · 0 replies · +1 points

I've never been able to get into coupon-clipping. Because I buy mostly fresh foods and cook from scratch, few food coupons apply -- they're mostly come-ons for junk food and processed stuff. I'm picky about my household goods, too, and rarely buy cleaning stuff just because it's cheap.

The Arizona Republic loads your recycling bin with about 10 pounds of useless newsprint every Sunday. When I was getting it, I found I would read the front page and the funny strips and then toss the rest of it out. One day I asked myself: how many trees die so I can pay Phoenix Newspapers, Inc., to deliver 10 pounds of paper that goes directly into the trash? That day I canceled the Repulsive.

You can get local news at AZCentral.com -- sort of; reporting is even weaker than what appears in the paper, which is pretty poor -- and local tabloid news at ABC15's online site. Real news is to be had online at the <ik>New York Times, BBC, Radio Netherlands Worldwide, CBS Marketwatch and TheAtlantic.com. The <9>Washington Post, unfortunately, now wants you to subscribe to view its online site, making it harder to balance your news diet with a moderately right-leaning point of view.

If you're going to school, you can get a subscription from the NY Times that is the next best thing to free. It's marketed very cheaply to students. And you actually can get the paper for free on the ASU campus -- it's distributed gratis from a kiosk right outside the Architecture building. I have the Times delivered to my house so I'll have something to read over breakfast, from a paper that still reports news.

13 years ago @ I Pick Up Pennies - I'm officially allergic · 0 replies · +1 points

Ye gawds!!!!! That is alarming, to say the least.

True that, what a.b. says. Actually, though, the ghost swimming pools have only aggravated a program that began to build when stupid developers bladed the desert and installed fake lakes for their elbow-to-elbow fake communities. We never had mosquitoes before we had fake lakes.

You know, just the other day i read somewhere (sorry...can't recall where) that mosquitoes can't fend well with a light breeze of the sort generated by an ordinary table fan. The idea is always to have a couple of fans going in each room, directed into the areas where the humans hang out or sit around. The fans should blow on you, not wave back and forth. If you have ceiling fans, run them on "high" to get the air swirling around.

Outside, you can not only have fans going, but consider mosquito coils. The ones you get in this country are less effective that the mosquito coils you can get overseas (less toxic to humans, too....), but they work to some degree. I wouldn't use the things indoors, though.

Snopes, alas, concurs with Consumer Reports that the beloved Avon Skin-So-Soft strategy doesn't work, at least no longer than an hour: http://www.snopes.com/oldwives/skeeters.asp Drat!!

13 years ago @ Fabulously Broke in th... - Radio Fodder for Thoug... · 0 replies · +1 points

Depends on whether he earns enough to cover their expenses. If not, he's right to be stressed, and she should try to find a job, any job -- waiting tables, if it comes to that.

If he's earning enough to support them, then he's wrong to be pissed. He made that baby, too. It's not her child, it's their child. Say what you will about our careers, the fact of the matter is children are far, far better when one parent stays home and actually behaves like a parent. Doesn't matter which parent. It's just better for the kid not to be in daycare and not to be coming home to an empty house after school.

As a society, we devalue the work of raising children and taking care of a home -- and work is what it is! Maybe if men stayed home and women went out and grubbed up money, child-rearing and home economics would be valued for what they are: a major contribution to our culture and our economy.

13 years ago @ I Pick Up Pennies - The hurrieder I go, th... · 0 replies · +1 points

It never rains but it pours! Well, if things really do come in the proverbial threes, maybe this spate of expensive luck will pass. Soon!