Tag: money
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Blowing The Budget At Christmas
The biggest bonus about doing your Christmas shopping online is being able to sneak in extra personal purchases, so when you’re being tortured by the in-house financial Gestapo about over-spending, you can fob them off as presents. stock-photo-close-up-woman-s-hands-holding-a-credit-card-and-using-computer-keyboard-for-online-shopping-140850265 As you are aware, I am unfortunately married to Tightus Pocketus, and so during our VERY LONG…
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Being Promoted from Parent To Bank By Teenagers
That time when you transition from parent to bank with your teenagers. The thing about teenagers is that their brains are still not fully developed and they can act impulsively. So the minute you diss them or flip your lid at them or do something parentally-incorrect (like tell all three of your readers about their…
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Time To Tame The Tightarse
I don’t mean to drone on about the old man’s obsession with ‘my spending’, but it became blatantly apparent to me this week that he has a problem. With my problem. I could justify it as yet another symptom of middle-aged, spousal intolerance, but simply put, there really is nothing attractive about a tightarse, so…
LOUISA SIMMONDS 