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ARE WE DOING PRODUCT ADVERTISEMENTS?
You aren’t kidding? This isn’t a joke? Because QUICKEN | THE DAILY POST is not supposed to be an advertising ploy for some other company. I’m more than slightly perturbed by this. I hope this is a...
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HOW TO HAVE ENOUGH MONEY ON WHICH TO RETIRE
I found this question on Quora: What percentage of my salary do I need to save in order to maintain my current quality of life once I retire? So I said: Definitely, you should live in your mom’s...
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IN TOTAL, MORE DAYS THAN MONEY
June has been a super expensive month. The spraying for all the bugs, the repair of the front door, Bonnie back and forth to the vet? I had hoped to pay for it all “up front” as it were, but the...
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MONEY IS MORE PERSONAL THAN SEX
How many times have you heard someone say “It’s just money,” as if money is no more than a way to pay for “stuff” and has no other value to us. We all know it isn’t “just money.” It’s much more than...
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BUYING A DOOR FOR THE DOGS
Now that the front door and sidelights is ordered, I need to get a doggy door. The one we’ve got is huge. We’ve had so many different dogs, from very small to really big, we needed one door to fit all...
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A LONG WAY
I went looking in my files for a story — which I didn’t find. Maybe it’s on one of my backup drives. I’ll have to look. Meanwhile, I found this unfinished bit. I wrote it in 2006. Life is much better...
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WILL WORK FOR FOOD
There is a rumor, perpetuated by television shows, that bloggers earn a living. By blogging. Someone in Hollywood seriously thinks people like me make money doing this. I am depressed to admit it, but...
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TRICK OR TREAT?
Yesterday was a trick … or today was. One of these two days was definitely a trick and the other a treat. Yesterday, in the alternate reality in which I lived (or is today the alternate reality?), I...
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IS THERE MORE MONEY THAN MONTH? OR MORE MONTH THAN MONEY? – Marilyn Armstrong
Depletion is our current financial state. This is because this is the time when we pay the mortgage. It’s The Big Bill of the Month and it pretty much sucks us completely dry until the next fly by of...
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CEE’S WORLD SHARING EVENT – Marilyn Armstrong
Share Your World – April 30, 2018 Do you use paper money? If so is your money organized sequentially according to denomination? Basically, no. I never have any paper money. It’s common for me to not...
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BLOGGING DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE – Marilyn Armstrong
WordPress’s new “algorithm” has made a lot of bloggers unhappy. I’m sure they regret our unhappiness, but I think what is really making them unhappy is that other companies — like Google and Facebook —...
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QUESTION FOR THE SHARING WORLD – Marilyn Armstrong
Share Your World – May 7, 2018 If you were given $22 million tax-free dollars (any currency), what is the first thing you would do? Same as last time. Pay off the house. Possibly knock it down and...
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PLEASE DON’T LET THE CHIMNEY FALL ON YOUR HEAD – Marilyn Armstrong
Life is killing all of us, but it seems to be killing some of us faster than others. Maybe it just seems that way. Mystery bricks are falling Right now, my house is killing me. When we moved in here,...
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NOT CHERRIES
A man, determined to find the meaning of life, sets out to climb one of the highest peaks in the Himalayas. He has heard that atop that peak, living in a cave, lives the wisest man in the world, the...
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DATELINE UXBRIDGE – SHARING MY WORLD
Share Your World – 2016 Week 34 What is your favorite comfort snack food? Ginger. Crystallized ginger. No matter how many time you ask this question, you will get the same answer. Boring, perhaps, but...
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IT’S OBVIOUS … ISN’T IT?
It ought to be obvious. If you deluge potential customers or contributors with email, whether imploring them for donations or reminding them of your products, eventually they will run away....
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WE’VE COME A LONG WAY SINCE THEN
I went looking in my files for a story — which I didn’t find. Maybe it’s on one of my backup drives. I’ll have to look. Meanwhile, I found this unfinished bit. I wrote it in 2006. Life is much better...
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ARE WE DOING PRODUCT ADVERTISEMENTS?
You aren’t kidding? This isn’t a joke? Because QUICKEN | THE DAILY POST is not supposed to be an advertising ploy for some other company. I’m more than slightly perturbed by this. I hope this is a...
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WE ARE ARCHAIC – AND I’VE BEEN HACKED – Marilyn Armstrong
ARCHAIC We were the hot new writers that got WordPress ‘on the board’ back in their early days, but we are old now and they want something different. More money. A lot more money. Apparently the...
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I WANT AN AUTONOMOUS HOUSE! Marilyn Armstrong
Autonomous house, autonomous life! The self-driving vehicle is on the way. It’s on the news and in the news. A few accidents. One death. But considering the number of accidents just backing out of a...
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