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Wow, that's one of the most sagacious things I've heard in a long time. So true, and well put.

OMG, that's so funny and so true! There's an old guy who is constantly walking around our condos staring at people. We call him the Condo Monitor. When we were new it was especially bad. Glaring at me as I took out the garbage, glaring at me as I got the mail. I think he probably expected me to...

Okay, here's the thing about clothes and guys. Jeans are okay, even holes in them are okay. But the tapered Kirk-Cameron powder-blue blue jeans from the '80s are not okay. Just make sure the jeans have a dark wash, and are not tapered (not too flared either), and they can be as cheap as you...

I think it's mostly about control. If you have a reasonable degree of control over your work, both the daily minutiae and the big-picture stuff, you're bound to be pretty happy in your job. (For some this would only happen if they owned their own venture; for others, having an okay job and a...

I wouldn't have believed this, but I spoke with the administrator of a technical high school the other day who told me that many of his kids can't read. He teaches the radio program, and students regularly get in to the studio and can't do a newscast, because they can't read the copy. His school...

Ooh...great suggestion. It wouldn't be DH's thing (long topic for another thread), but I've thought of it for myself. I'm in the commercial side of radio, and have considered doing some local reporting as a way to kick myself out of my rut. Kind of scary. Reporting is hard to do well. It's a...

Such a great question. My hubby is a radio newscaster who majored in journalism. He fell in love with Woodward and Bernstein, and I think he really did hope to do something important with his career. Over eight years at the same local news station, he's become very discouraged and...

I agree...a personality disorder at the very least. (Tiki, child of a father who missed my high school graduation for a work thing. Bitter? Moi?)

lazygood4nothin, I would be interested in your cucumber salad recipe too. I love cucumbers and want something kinda fancy for the holiday...

I like this one too: "The lack of money is the root of all evil." (Attributed to many--my fridge magnet says George Bernard Shaw)

Thanks guys. Sometimes I think all I do is whine on here. Don't want to be a downer! Just had to respond to the thread though. Things happen for a reason. (What reason, I'm never quite sure.) But things have been much better in general for me in recent years. I'm happily married, enjoy my...

Cybrmike, it's such a weird story. When I met Stein, I'd never seen Ferris Bueller's Day Off and had no idea who he was. My father had just died and he reminded me so much of Dad. I think that's why I liked him initially. Kind of sad on my part, but I'm offering it as a mitigating circumstance...

I hung out with Ben Stein briefly in the early 1990's. He worships the affluent and is an image spender par excellence. He probably feels he should be doing something other than spending every dime he gets, but his lifestyle requires that he fit in with the celebrities he constantly courts. So...

Nords, that computer hutch/desk unit looks perfect, may I ask where you got it?

Good thread--I have mixed feelings about this, and I think about these things more often as I get older. I'm at a company that owns a cluster of radio stations. I've been doing voice work, commercials, on-air, and just about everything else you can do in this place other than deliver the mail...

I love "bourgeois hetero-normative fantasy." (Describes our whole culture) I adore the Nutcracker too...and I sat through a production of Swan Lake with tears streaming down my face as a kid. My mother was so worried, she took me out for pie afterward. I tried to explain that I'd really been...

That is a great idea! :)

I read a review of The Secret (can't recall where now) in which the author gave it a thumbs down for some very good reasons...He mentioned that Oprah recently attended the groundbreaking ceremony of a school for underprivleged girls she established in South Africa, and couldn't stop talking...

That's such a great idea, for the sake of any children also. I wish my father had had insurance for the amount of his mortgage. When he passed there was no money to keep the house, which was sold in a hurry under pressure from my uncle--who recently admitted to me (vindicated at last!) that he...

Thanks for the compliment, Ha. ;) Yep, we're grateful for each other.

Not that it's a news bulletin to anybody, but I think people overconsume to fit in with whoever they identify with--people down the road, or maybe the celebs on television. We have one simple-liver friend who is young, single and debt free except for her mortgage on a very small house. She works...

Thanks, Nun, for the tinyhomes link. I like those. We don't have property yet...but it's food for thought... 8)

Thanks, guys, for helping me laugh at this. I really needed to. Happy holidays to y'all! :D

mickeyd and martha - The guy's my uncle and I honestly think he tried his best. He's just a dummy about money. There was around 55K left when it devolved to me...I don't want to lose any more of it in a suit that might not pan out...Plus, I don't care to destroy whatever goodwill is left between...

Hi, I don't post a lot but am a faithful lurker. Over the summer you all held my hand and said I would come through after a know-nothing trustee (my deceased dad's representative) churned my portfolio to death over a period of years, and left me with less money than what was in there to begin...