Thursday, January 11, 2007
Thursday Thirteen
1. This spam appeared in my junk mailbox: After taking one tablet you can easily get erect any time you'd like for two days. And after two days, you are once again walking on all fours?
2. Yes, I know I stole that concept from Guppyman.
3. I have been struggling with airline schedules for a couple of days. I have to go to Reno and Tulsa for business, and am trying to work out Disneyworld and Costa Rica for pleasure.
4. I have never before tried to do two grandchildren trips in one year. It will take a lot of money.
5. I hate to spend money.
6. I am so cheap ... er, frugal ... that I found myself arguing with a sales clerk over a 30 CENT overcharge. On top of that, I was getting reimbursed for the purchase. It didn't matter a bit, except for the principle.
7. I decided that if you're the kind of person who watches pennies, you will watch them no matter what the situation.
8. Besides, although I will give anyone the shirt off my back, it makes my blood boil when someone tries to take it.
9. My theory is that the single most important factor in a relationship is the attitude toward money. Not just spenders vs. savers, but the priorities.
10. My ex-husband was a spender. Of all the problems, and there were many, that was the worst one for me.
11. He blew his money on eating out at fast food places, on cokes and snacks and I-don't-know-what but he never had a thing to show for it. It drove me nuts. I brown-bagged it every day. Eventually I realized that he was blowing all the money I was saving.
12. After our divorce, I had much less actual money, and yet I felt like I had more money than I had ever had in my whole life. It was because I had control. The bills got paid, the groceries were bought, and then I considered things like clothing and movies. Like I said, priorities.
13. The Professor and I have the same attitude about money. We once -- I am not making this up -- spent 30 minutes repairing a clothespin! He is of Scotch descent and I am half Swiss, and we both figure that if something still works, no matter how out of date it is, or how many features it lacks, it would be wasteful to replace it. It's not the way most people think, but we get along very well because of it.
2. Yes, I know I stole that concept from Guppyman.
3. I have been struggling with airline schedules for a couple of days. I have to go to Reno and Tulsa for business, and am trying to work out Disneyworld and Costa Rica for pleasure.
4. I have never before tried to do two grandchildren trips in one year. It will take a lot of money.
5. I hate to spend money.
6. I am so cheap ... er, frugal ... that I found myself arguing with a sales clerk over a 30 CENT overcharge. On top of that, I was getting reimbursed for the purchase. It didn't matter a bit, except for the principle.
7. I decided that if you're the kind of person who watches pennies, you will watch them no matter what the situation.
8. Besides, although I will give anyone the shirt off my back, it makes my blood boil when someone tries to take it.
9. My theory is that the single most important factor in a relationship is the attitude toward money. Not just spenders vs. savers, but the priorities.
10. My ex-husband was a spender. Of all the problems, and there were many, that was the worst one for me.
11. He blew his money on eating out at fast food places, on cokes and snacks and I-don't-know-what but he never had a thing to show for it. It drove me nuts. I brown-bagged it every day. Eventually I realized that he was blowing all the money I was saving.
12. After our divorce, I had much less actual money, and yet I felt like I had more money than I had ever had in my whole life. It was because I had control. The bills got paid, the groceries were bought, and then I considered things like clothing and movies. Like I said, priorities.
13. The Professor and I have the same attitude about money. We once -- I am not making this up -- spent 30 minutes repairing a clothespin! He is of Scotch descent and I am half Swiss, and we both figure that if something still works, no matter how out of date it is, or how many features it lacks, it would be wasteful to replace it. It's not the way most people think, but we get along very well because of it.
1 Comments:
Oh, this resonates - 9, 11 and 12 particularly. I relish the fact that B and I have the same attitude to money, it's a joy. But if I hadn't had to live with the opposite, it would be a joy I couldn't appreciate.
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