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Oh. My.
Please don’t laugh.
As a favor for my family, I offered (aka was tricked) into caring for a cat, a huge moody orange beast that no one loves except my mother.
Long story short, the thing couldn’t quite make it to Holland to live in progressive societal bliss with the rest of the other kitties (two […]

So we’re mindlessly staring at the TV for the third hour now, watching as flight after flight from Heathrow is cancelled due to fog. Already 40,000 people are stranded in the airport. My sister, Kristen, and her husband, Chris, are due in to Amsterdam this afternoon if they ever make it off their layover in […]

Feedback, some by comment, some by e-mail, is evenly split down the middle. I am both a big-fat cheater and reasonable, level-headed spender, it seems we have decided.
Let me amend my last post with this: Since the social experiment began, I’ve become hyper conscious of how I spend money and $40 is all of a […]

What, it’s been like a week and I’ve already botched my own plan. I don’t want to justify my spending … but I think I’ve come up with some great excuses. I’ve deemed each of these purchases necessary. Take a look:
$8: Stamps, cause not paying bills for a month would be a bad idea (and […]

Thanks for all the great feedback on this new experiment of mine. (Check the previous post for details. Basically, it’s an attempt to shop for only real, true essentials for a month. Food, minimal gas, medicine, cat food and toilet paper as of now.)
So far, it’s been easy. Probably too easy. I haven’t felt deprived […]

Thursday was my birthday. And on that day, and on a whim — for no reason I can comprehend, not yet, at least — I all at once decided that I won’t buy anything unnecessary for a month. Food, toilet paper and medicine make the cut. Anything else I think I need I’m not gonna […]

First, go back and refer to this post: But He’s a Dog.
Okay, now read this.
Taz, the dog (note: not “our” dog, because that implies I have some sort of ownerhip and thus responsibility for this phenomenon) has, get this …. a Web site.
My sister says he needs one. After all, we all have one. […]

I rarely get squeamish. I thought I’d be fine on Sunday when I wandered a Harrisonburg gun show for a few hours. It made for a decent story and I was glad to do it. As it is with any good story — each will teach me something new. This one did, too. Maybe […]