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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]