One reason debt plays such a huge role in consumerist society is comparison … the thief of joy. Newer car, bigger house, pricier clothes … when in reality, none but the wealthiest 10-percent of households can really afford to live. Enter: credit(debt) cards, personal loans, and bankruptcies on 7-year cycle. Rinse, repeat. In life pre-theKid, …
Chuckle / Guffaw / Titter
Fun little nonsensical factoids … the stuff of life. 1. Baby platypuses (platypi?) are called “puggles.” 2. Miami is the only major U.S. city founded by a woman, Julia Tuttle. 3. Cleopatra, the Macedonian queen of ancient Egypt, (b. 70 BC – d. 30 BC) lived closer to the time of the founding of Pizza …
Law #19 – Know You Not Who I Am!?!?
In the beginning of the book Crazy Rich Asians, there is a scene where the hotel front desk clerk hilariously assumes that, based on their appearance, the guests seeking shelter are not worthy of the establishment. Shortly thereafter, the guests purchase the entire hotel, and the clerk is out of a job. In the quest …
“Unexpected” = Question of Timing
Told theKid about an epoch ago that everything / absolutely everything / manmade will eventually fail, so wiser to avoid placing one’s faith in/on material things. Like all wisdom, got from GOD … {Matthew 6:19} Modern life encourages (requires?) consumers to consume the consumption of which that does not last … cars, refrigerators, hot water …
Debt is in the Cards
So kinda right, just going about it all wrong. Sounds/seems familiar. Funnily enough, Mr. Edelman suggests (strongly) that the solution to getting out of debt is … more debt. HA! Love being right. Still hurts, tho’. So the suggestion is to get one more credit(debt) card and place all expenses to it, pay it off …
Purposefully Purposed
The tedious of tedium, but doing the right thing is seldom as enjoyable as doing the wrong, neé debt life. After a month of spending track, the illustrious Mr. Edelman suggests converting those dollar amounts to percentages to determine the percentage of total spending occurred in each category (i.e., each column’s dollar total divided by …
There Can Be Only Five
Been a bit of a while. Time to circle back … The wise Mr. Edelman enumerates several categories of expenses to track spending (spending PLAN, remember? … spending PLAN …) [see p.303] Just a few examples. Notably absent, however, are housing costs. And while upon first glance may seem helpful but gets a bit down …
Cook Dem Kids
There’s a monster in West Virginia. The absolute worst type of “human,” at least in the context of a carbon life-form. Any questions of moral integrity, basic decency, and capacity for empathy left open for later consideration. Kenny Cook sexually abused, violated, and molested his daughter beginning at the age of nine, and she wound …
Tense Past
OK so this right here is a conscious, decisive effort to be apolitical, asocial, aracial (is that a thing? yes? no? No matter), agendered … all of that. Easier to hate everything and everyone equally. Keeps it simple. But must say … the ancestral progenitors of the ICS are flexing mad raucous these days. OK, …
And for More News of/in the Apocalypse …
Well this is … 2025. And, apparently, there is an interstellar object hurtling towards Momma Earth at about 130K/MPH, and none of the really big brains knows what it is. Troubling. But a bit of a thrill too. Deep Impact is one of the faves (do love a good ELE flick) although methinks some large, …
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