the roast of bob saget
so i just watched the roast of bob saget, and i have to say, cloris leachman is friggin HYSTERICAL. i wish she was my grandmother.
if you’ve never watched a comedy central roast, they’re not exactly clean, but they ARE hysterical. click the roast link above and watch cloris. oh. my. gosh. SOOO funny!
gas or Starbucks?
There’s not a person alive not feeling the pinch of effing ridiculous gas prices. The fine folks at ecofriendlydriver.com posted about how people are cutting back on their daily latte in order to afford gas for their vehicle. (I’ll post the post at the bottom of this post. How very strange that last sentence looks.)
One person commented how one of the top 10 ways to save money on every top 10 list made, be it by Suze Orman or Dave Ramsey or the-financial-advisor-of-your-choice, is to cut out your daily trips to Starbucks. Which is all fine and good, but I know several people who pay their bills because people make daily trips to Starbucks, and they are also feeling the pinch from everyone else feeling the pinch. Less people are coming, which means less sales, so they’re losing hours, losing tips, and the pressure increases. Not many people think about them - not that I’m saying peopel should go into debt to maintain their daily latte so my friends get more hours, but just a thought to remember the “little people” behind the counter.
So what kinds of things have you done to accomodate the pinch? We’ve:
- cut out eating out as often (but when we do we’re tipping more, b/c we figure, like our Starbucks friends, those waiters are feeling the pinch of people cutting back)
- aren’t going to movies, bowling, putt-putt golfing, etc and instead opting for watching TV or playing video games or board games at home (which requires no use of gas…). We’re renting movies, and to save even more gas money, doing it through iTunes (boy are those Apple people brilliant).
- i will spend 5 hours shopping and running errands so I only have to make one trip. And no more frivolous spending.
What kinds of things are you doing?
If I could find the actual Kelley Blue Book article I’d give it to you, but alas - I cannot. Here’s the post from ecofriendlydriver.
Gas Prices Killing Starbucks, McDonald’s
I just thought this was an interesting thing to have in a survey. :p Kelley Blue Book performed some market research in regard to new car buyers’ other spending habits as gas prices have risen.
60% say they are eating out less often*
44% are taking fewer vacations
28% are buying fewer or have stopped buying any DVDs and CDs**
28% have stopped going to Starbucks, with another 21% saying they’ve cut back
wow. are you kidding?
Ohio man stalls long enough to get new outhouse
Mon Jun 9, 5:16 PM ET
An ailing, retired farmer who refused to give up his outhouse after authorities declared it to be a public nuisance finally got a new one.
Elbert “Lew” Preston, 79, stood his ground long enough for a nonprofit group to come to his aid and build him a sturdy new outhouse with a waste tank underneath.
“There she is,” Preston said as he showed off the new outbuilding. “She’s a lifesaver.”
The wooden outhouse, complete with a crescent moon on its door, replaces a 1960s-built version that had run afoul of public health officials in Clermont County, east of Cincinnati. While the old one was over a hole in the ground, this one sits atop a concrete base and a 1,000-gallon tank.
“It’s too nice and complicated to be an outhouse,” Preston said. “I call it a privy.”
Preston, a former trustee for Washington Township, challenged the board of health for months before seeking help from People Working Cooperatively, a nonprofit that has done thousands of projects for low-income, elderly and disabled residents in southern Ohio and northern Kentucky.
Past jobs have included replacing roofs and building wheelchair ramps, but this was its first outhouse.
Preston lives near a busy shopping area and has 175 acres of potentially lucrative real estate but didn’t want to go to the expense and complications of installing a septic system.
Preston, who is slowed by diabetes and has colon problems and pacemaker, said he never saw the need to replace the old outhouse — which once was picked up and carried into his garden by a tornado without major damage.
He said he has used an outside toilet since settling in Washington Township 40 years ago and likes the privacy of a privy.
“When you’re in a house, sounds carry,” Preston said. “Everybody knows your business.”
