Good Things Friday (228) and Link Love
July 7, 2023
1. Gave PiC and Smol Acrobat their haircuts this weekend. Smol hates their haircuts so it took a ton of energy and Lucky Charms to get through. JB’s next. Savings: $50 Remembering that we shouldn’t do three haircuts on the same day: priceless.
2. I let us both off the dinner hook over the weekend. We were wiped out from the week, and we had cooked all week which makes me feel better when I do resort to takeout. We had a treat of burgers and fries and shared a mini shake between the four of us. That last wasn’t specifically to be frugal. The shared mini shake is exactly the right amount for everyone in addition to their own burgers and a big helping of fries. Still, not wasting money on a larger shake, some of which could go to waste, feels like the comfortably frugal thing to do.
Helping folks: FOGA‘s friend is trying to escape an abuser, can you help?
ZJ’s friend lost her sibling, leaving her the sole surviving member of her nuclear family, and is trying to raise funds to help their brother in law be with their niblings during this time of grief.
Darcy’s fun post reminded me I never actually read The Count of Monte Cristo. Maybe I should: The 2023 Net Worth of the Count of Monte Cristo
An interesting idea: Would You Rent Clothes for Your Next Japan Trip? How would they handle sizing, I wonder.
I had no idea that Taiwan was linked (like the US was) to the Guatamalan death squads in any way until a friend followed a thread starting from a comment on a podcast to this editorial: Past with Guatemala must be probed.
I keep waiting for it to happen to us
Who can drop their kid off in America today and not fear the worst?
“I can’t protect my kids in the way we want to or think we can because in America we’ve decided that protecting a fetus is more important than protecting the children we already have. Massacres are just part of living here. This great and free country.“
The Count of Monte Cristo! I love it. I read it to myself, and after I married my husband, I read it out loud to him. It’s an amazing book. One of the subtle things I appreciate about it is how the punishments correspond in severity to the classical view of sin and evil, rather than to modern judicial sensibilities of how “bad” an action was. But even beyond that, it’s a great, great adventure. Read it!
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Thanks for the recommendation! I hope to have the brainspace to try it sooner than longer.