tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post8445085142563865466..comments2024-03-07T18:38:58.284-08:00Comments on kidchamp dot net: laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03429404210444847213noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post-90554027364950904342008-02-21T13:04:20.000-08:002008-02-21T13:04:20.000-08:00Re the moths: Ceder. Helps and smells lovely.
Re...Re the moths: Ceder. Helps and smells lovely.<br /><br />Re: Suze Ormand. AH! That woman is crazycrazycrazy. You need to sit down and watch one of her Oprah shows where she just screams horrible things in peoples faces and calls it tough love. However I do recommend, while we are on the subject of personal finance and pop psych, Oprah's "debt diet" programs from a few years back, I think the programs and the worksheets are on her website.<br /><br />I know. But Suze Ormand!<br /><br />That said, I lurve personal finance in a totally unhealthy/obsessive sort of way (budget? I'll show you a budget... sigh... swoon...), and this project sounds very cool to me!Megnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post-23385154975842214862008-02-21T17:07:05.000-08:002008-02-21T17:07:05.000-08:00i may have mentioned these to you when i was out t...i may have mentioned these to you when i was out there, but i bought the lavendar cedar blocks for the container store a while back and love them.<br /><br />http://www.containerstore.com/browse/Product.jhtml?searchId=12990374&itemIndex=13&CATID=72585&PRODID=66517<br /><br />there's a variety of types, so pick what you like, but i'm into all of em. i suggest some hanging blocks AND hangers. fuckin moths.babyjonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post-63898411343563978812008-02-21T17:22:02.000-08:002008-02-21T17:22:02.000-08:00i tried big sacks of dried lavender and had little...i tried big sacks of dried lavender and had little success; i've <a href="http://www.wisegeek.com/does-cedar-actually-repel-moths.htm" rel="nofollow">read</a>, in turn, that cedar doesn't always work (though i haven't tried it myself, so what do i know?). i think the closet, because of its size, door gaps, and proximity to an outside window, is just a lost cause; i'm going to try cedar and the cupboard. and then i will try anger management and polyester.laurennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post-55788569595029683482008-02-21T19:44:50.000-08:002008-02-21T19:44:50.000-08:00Caveat: I have read this article --
http://boston...Caveat: I have read this article --<br /><br />http://bostonreview.net/BR30.5/warrentyagi.html<br /><br />-- but not the numerous responses to it. Still, fascinating stuff about the financial picture of the middle class. Which reminds me yet again that I need to move my pitiful IRA to a different fund and continue my current practice of incantation, candle-lighting, waggle-dancing, and failure to contribute actual money to it.picanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post-8636549215923036572008-02-22T11:17:02.000-08:002008-02-22T11:17:02.000-08:00@pica: the "hey, that's me too!" mom...@pica: the "hey, that's me too!" moments i was talking about in re the orman book have more to do with squeamishness than an actual failure to save, which is kind of ironic: i'm in far <i>better</i> financial shape now than at any other time in my life (i contribute to a 401k, i have my taxes more than under control, i've tamed my debt), but i still don't want to think about it. i'm not the sort of maternal figure who, as orman would say, nourishes her family before she nourishes herself, but there's some wackiness there that really needs to go. <br /><br />as for the boston review piece you linked, i confess that i just read it and, like you, have yet to read the discussion of it; let's agree to address that when we've rested a bit. first, and as a bit of an aside, i was struck by its then-and-now income comparison: do today's 2-income families really earn only 75% more than our 1-income parents earned? the women entering the workforce earn less than men do, sure, but yikes.<br /><br />home ownership, parenting, cars - i spend nothing on any of those, so i was preparing for much of the piece to have little to do with me. then came the idea that those of us in the middle class who aren't dropping that money (or profligate) are still vulnerable, which...is true, i think, and frightening. <br /><br />as to whether predatory lenders are to blame for the credit crisis: a second topic for the ladies' financial book club?laurennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post-1254961479605582292008-02-24T09:06:55.000-08:002008-02-24T09:06:55.000-08:00earlier this week i actually typed the words "...earlier this week i actually typed the words "what would suze orman do?" in a chat window when discussing paying off a student loan with a friend ... i read The Courage to be Rich years back and frankly, i love her stern tone and straightforward talk because someone with my "spend it like you'll die tomorrow" history really needs (needed?) it.<br /><br />and thank you for reminding me that (prompted by Jezebel dot com I think?) i, too, downloaded that .pdf and then promptly forgot to read it.<br /><br />the best thing i read about the lohan/monroe pics was (one of the many variations on) "does this mean lindsay will die six weeks from now?" cruel, perhaps, but i just haven't really liked that girl since Parent Trap. and what did she do to deserve those breasts, anyway? b*tch.<br /><br />sharon p (of the parenthetical, it seems, today)sharon pnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post-9332151305128284452008-02-24T11:28:58.000-08:002008-02-24T11:28:58.000-08:00i'm pretty neutral on la lohan, actually; i li...i'm pretty neutral on la lohan, actually; i liked her in <i>mean girls</i>, as i recall (more on that later, in re: tina fey on <i>saturday night live</i> last night), and haven't really seen her in anything else. i feel sorry for her in this case, as i think her fixation on marilyn blinded her to how exploitative that session really was (homage to the original photos in the sense that those were, too? okay, maybe, but that's squicky). i don't mind that she HAS voluminous breasts, i just don't want to see them (or anyone else's, including my own).laurennoreply@blogger.com