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Learning the hard way

I’ve been slowly trying to clean out my apartment of all the various excesses that I have accumulated.  When my last roommate moved in, it was sort of a last minute thing, so anything I had stored in the spare bedroom closet got crammed into any space I could possibly find.  When she left, I [...]

Spring Cleaning

I think I’m rebelling against the unusual cold and starting my spring cleaning early.  Actually, doing spring cleaning in the winter makes some sense – who wants to be trapped inside cleaning when it’s nice outside?  Maybe that’s why my spring cleaning didn’t really happen last year.

Over the weekend, I started going through cabinets and [...]

Living on Nothing

Over the weekend, I read an article (yes, I read Details magazine) about a man who lives without money.  He lives in a cave, scavenges for food, and writes a blog at the local public library.  You can and should read the article yourself, so I won’t summarize it here.  It’s a fascinating story of [...]

Spring Cleaning

I have been going through what I go through every spring.  Extreme dislike of every piece of weather-appropriate clothing that I own.  I’m not sure why this happens, but I do it every year.  It could be that since my office is like a refridgerator, I end up wearing cardigans all the time over my [...]

No More Pennies?

Happy Birthday, President Lincoln.  To celebrate, stores have decided to stop accepting the penny.

That’s right, in West Concord, Massachusetts, a number of stores are refusing to accept pennies as of today, calling pennies “wasteful and time consuming.”  Instead, they will round all purchases down to the nearest nickel.

I suppose no one can really complain – after [...]