Wisdom and whimsy in moderate doses
If you haven’t heard, it’s Rocktober, and we’re celebrating with Rocktoberfest. (If you haven’t heard, it’s because you’re not reading The Modern Gal, a huge oversight on your part.) Rocktober is a way to get over the ickiness that was September. As the MG explained: From here to forever more, Roctoberfest will be a monthlong… Continue reading Happy Rocktoberfest
The $20-a-week grocery experiment starts today. I know, it was going to start Monday, but my day off turned into a work day and today became a day off. So off to Aldi I went with a $20 limit and got: 3-lbs. hamburger: $5.49 Tomato juice: 99 cents 3 cans of chili beans: 49 cents… Continue reading $20 grocery bill
September was Hunger Action Month; I’m a little late finding out. Near as I can figure out, the state of Missouri would give a single adult about $20 a week in food stamps. About $2.85 a day. I usually call that soda money. (In Illinois, it would be $25 per week. The executive directors of… Continue reading Can you eat on $20 a week?
I should have been laid off from work today. I wasn’t. My employer, whom I rarely blog about even on the journalism-related blog (although when something happens at work, there’s always a lot more traffic from work-related IPs), laid off 20 people on Friday. Seventeen of them were from the newsroom. Fifteen were part of… Continue reading Employment remorse
Cold Stone Creamery is sponsoring an ice cream social for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, which grants wishes to kids with life-threatening illnesses. In September, the ice cream chain introduced two new creations inspired by Jack and Emily, two Make-A-Wish kids. Jack’s creation is marshmallow ice cream with Oreo cookies, chocolate chips and fudge. Emily’s is Nutter… Continue reading Free ice cream!