Just a little (link) love: saving money edition
August 9, 2018
Small win: I saved $50 on our dogsitting bill.
What were your small wins this week?
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Is Future You good at guiding Present You?
The USPS used to be incredibly innovative.
S at the $76K Project is doing a semi-regular series on Wins and you know I’m all about celebrating these things.
I have a long way to go in teaching JB critical thinking.
Sense’s experience with LASIK.
How to help grieving people – really useful comments and suggestions for helping recently or not so recently bereaved
How do you feel about money right now?
I wish the Paralyzed Veterans of America group well with this lawsuit. We should all have basic access to bathrooms.
Leigh and life most likely post-STEM. This came out when I was at SDCC and I didn’t have time to do it justice earlier.
Three research-based ways to maximize the fun of leisure activities: “The key to enjoying your leisure activities is to live in the moment as much as possible. Be spontaneous and don’t live by the calendar”
They make a good point about not setting an end time but still, I think we do better when we have boundaries like start and stop times, and only one fun activity scheduled per day off. It lets us fully enjoy the thing we’re doing and still get enough rest so we’re not paying the price later. How do you schedule fun?
The Queer Art of Failing Better: “In 2018, Queer Eye is no longer necessarily “For The Straight Guy,” as it was in the aughts, but being a straight mainstream white guy now seems to come with an elevated risk of panic in the face of basic life-skills like learning to clean your room and deal with your childhood traumas. Up till now, this was the demographic that was always told that if they just hung on long enough, someone else would eventually do it for them. Probably a woman.”
“The work that the Fab Five are doing for the luckless, loveless men of Georgia is girlfriend work. It is emotional labor, domestic labor, the work that anyone who has ever dated a straight man will recognize.”
Thanks for the link!
That queer eye piece is brilliant, both for what it says about women (with respect to straight white dudes) as you point out and for what it says closer to the end about gay men with respect to the show. It’s like that recent Roseanne episode with the Muslim neighbors (who Roseanne is horrible about until they share their wifi password with her)– people shouldn’t have to give you something in order to be granted human dignity.
TRUTH.
Re: the research-based ways to enjoy fun things… the research is great in theory, but NOT USEFUL with young kids. Everything in my life runs on a strict clock, because if the toddler does not eat and sleep on schedule, it is impossible to enjoy anything. Because: crying, fussiness, and general misery. She’s a cheerful, energetic kid if you adhere to the schedule. Blow it, and things come unglued fast.
Oh absolutely agree – we have to stick to routine for the kids. So we schedule our fun around the eating and sleeping routine as well.
YAY! Thanks for the link love. Those monthly wins keep me going.
Win this month: third paycheck, all of which is going straight to savings. Woooooohoo!
You’re very welcome! YAY for the third paycheck!
Thanks for the link! I actually did not like Queer Eye. We watched one episode and it wasn’t for us. I just can’t stand shows/people that are overly critical of someone’s life and trying to change them anymore. I didn’t even think of the emotional labor part! I don’t dress my husband, which really confuses some of our friends. I asked one friend how she got her fiance to wear a button down shirt for their engagement photos and she said that she brought several home and told him to pick one. (I was expecting that he had some in his closet and just didn’t wear them that often, like my husband.)
Small win this week: August did not start off expensive. That isn’t necessarily indicative of how it will end, but it certainly feels really lovely after an expensive July.
If it matters, my understanding of Queer Eye was that the subjects request the makeovers.
Here’s hoping a low cost start equals a low cost end too.
Thanks for the link!!
You’re welcome!