Holding money at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve is thought to bring good financial fortune in the coming year, I didn't do it nine nights ago. I was asleep at midnight. I've done it for twenty-five years and it hasn't worked yet. I didn't make any New Year's resolution either. Having nothing to change must make me perfect.
Get out of debt, quit smoking, lose weight, get in better shape, eat healthier, cut back on sugary drinks, cut back on alcohol, watch less TV and read more books are some of the top resolutions. This time of year the Internet is full of suggestions to help on your way to a better life.
A few from The Top 10 Ways to Save Money:
Start Right Away: No kidding?
Thrown Change in a Jar: I knew someone who put his change in a glass five gallon water jug. When it was full he had $1,235.27 and it only took ten years. He had to break the glass and count and roll the change, which took another six months. All this for ten bucks a month. Forget the change, toss a twenty in a can a couple times a month.
Another suggestion is give yourself an instant reward. Every time you pass up that latte you should put the money aside. Every time you don't buy the pack of cigarettes you should put the money aside. Pass up lunch, money aside. Don't buy the beer, money aside. Don't go out for pizza, party or movie, put the money aside. Soon you can stop going out, stop doing laundry and stop answering your phone. You will have some extra money but you'll be so boring no one will hang out with you.
So much of this information is redundant and, I think, unnecessary. If you are diabetic and don't know the high fat content in whole milk is bad for you or sweet tea and soda are bad choices reading it on-line isn't going to help.
I try to be sensible with my (our) money but there are two things on the wasting money list I'm guilty of, coffee and premium cable packages. We don't pay credit card interest or order useless items on-line. We don't go out to dinner often, pay ATM or overdraft fees and do not belong to a gym. I enjoy the convenience of turning on the TV and watching what I want when I want it. At my age spending a little extra dough every month is fine. And if I go to Starbucks or Steeltown for a latte once a week, I think I've earned it.
The names have been changed to protect the innocent...."Dragnet"
The names have been changed to protect the stupid and guilty....Chuck
Wild and crazy and the year is only eight days old.
A Marshall University student in Huntington, W.Va., settled claims over a bottle rocket that allegedly exploded in another student's rectum.
In his lawsuit, Louis Hessel III claimed the blast startled him, causing him to fall about three feet off a deck at the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity on May 1, 2011.
A Cabell County judge dismissed the case in accordance with a settlement reached with Hessel and Richmond Property Group, which owns the frat house property.
The complaint said Travis Binkly was "highly intoxicated" when he "decided in his drunken stupor that it would be a good idea to shoot bottle rockets out of his anus on the ATO deck, located on the back of the ATO house." After Binkly inserted the bottle rocket and lit it, "the bottle rocket blew up in the defendant's rectum" instead of propelling out.
Hessel said the explosion startled him, causing him to jump and fall from the deck, which didn't have a railing.
The complaint didn't indicate whether Binkly was injured by the bottle rocket. It said Hessel lost playing time on the university's baseball team, suffered pain and had medical expenses.
Binkly obviously missed the physical science lecture the day it covered asshole bottle rockets. I wonder how much his parents are spending on his education.
A pregnant woman from Florida has been charged with aggravated battery after attacking her roommate during an argument about butter.
Cynthia Flegal, who is six months pregnant, was arrested Tuesday night after deputies say she hit her 57-year-old roommate for putting butter on the stove. "I must have told her about two hundred times, I like the butter cold," Flegal said.
The unemployed 24-year-old allegedly hit Mary Marson in the chest, knocked her to the ground, choked her and whacked her with a cane about five times. Flegal told deputies that she has a mental disorder but that she stopped taking her medication because she’s pregnant. She also said that hormones from her pregnancy played a role in the incident.
The mother-to-be was booked at Volusia County Jail. Think this kid has a chance?
Area 51 is real.
A domestic dispute that resulted from an argument about the existence of space aliens ended when Jennifer Carthy of Santa Fe, N.M., allegedly pulled a handgun and pointed it at her boyfriend.
Carthy was arrested on a charge of aggravated assault on a household member after she allegedly stopped in the heat of passion pulled a gun and pointed it at her boyfriend’s head.
"Who is crazy, you or me?" she reportedly asked him, referencing the earlier argument about aliens. Carthy is now in jail. Her boyfriend said he'll be more selective about pre-sex discussions.
I guess the gun was under the mattress.
Damn lousy scooter...I need more power.
Police in Oregon said a woman accused of a theft spree led officers on a brief low-speed chase when she attempted to flee on a motorized shopping cart.
A worker at a Subway restaurant contacted police and said a woman had stolen $13 from the eatery's tip jar and attempted to use it to purchase her $12.75 meal.
The woman was gone by the time police arrived but they soon heard reports of a woman matching her description stealing from a Fred Meyer store and causing a disturbance at a Rite Aid store.
Police said the woman then allegedly fled a Home Depot store in a motorized shopping cart loaded with merchandise. Police caught up to Laurie Ruth Chester, 59, while she was riding the low-speed vehicle on U.S. Highway 101.
Chester was arrested on two counts of third-degree theft, first-degree theft and disorderly conduct.
Some days it doesn't pay to get out of bed.
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