Pecuniarities

Expansion Difficulty/Complexity: Medium-Easy This Certificate of Deposit was the second expansion we created for the game (invented by Madoline) of Monopoly. After the Lottopoly (coming soon), I find this to be the most fun. The interest rates are rather high compared to real-life CD’s, but they help to illustrate the point that investing pays off, [...]

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As of this writing, “No-Air Conditioning Summer” is over for us (thank goodness!), but before I talk about how and why it ended, I thought I’d offer some tips on staying cool for those who either choose to or have to live without A/C for frugality’s sake or due to power outages, etc. Before we [...]

First of all, I think it very likely that our seemingly endless summer of “No A/C” will soon be coming to an end. But more on that later. Let’s start at the beginning. No-Heat Winters When we moved into our house in the Mojave Desert in December 2006, we arrived late at night and therefore [...]

Obviously, this only works for a select number of the population: ladies — and perhaps a very small number of gentlemen — of small frame and stature. While Madoline and I no longer buy clothes due to knowing how to sew our own, we did enjoy clothes shopping when we lived in L.A. where we often [...]

Hey everyone, I won’t be so presumptuous as to think that you’ve all been sitting on the edge of your computer chair F5-ing your browser window every 5 minutes to check for my next blog post, overwhelmed with concern as to where I’ve gone, but if you have, thank you for your loyal readership. I’ve [...]

My dog Luwi (“loo-vee” short for Ludwig) loves movies. Ever since he was a puppy, he has been fascinated with the television, especially scenes with animals or action. He would jump up on the TV and lick or bite the screen when he saw something exciting. Naturally, he was equally if not more captivated by [...]