Before you make your next restaurant reservation, go read my latest Living With Less column over at MSN Money.
“Complaining 101: Make your gripe heard” shows consumers how to fight back — politely! — against long waits, indifferent service or flies in the soup.
(Do you suppose Kermit the Frog complains if there aren’t flies in the soup?)
When I was a child I loathed naps. There was just way too much to do to spend daytime hours lying on a bed. These days I crave naps because, well, there’s just way too much to do.
I wish I could distill the essence of sleep and sell it in pill form. I’d call the product a “napsule.”
Remodeling This Life hosts the Festival of Frugality blog carnival this week. The hostess, Emily, chose my “The wedding gift as price of admission” as an Editor’s Pick.
This is my obligatory link to the carnival — but also a chance for readers to browse a wide array of topics, from “Frugal sick days” to “The international restaurant tipping guide.”
You might be as tickled as I was to read what Emily’s 5-year-old daughter did with the money she made at the yard sale.
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We have a winner! Two of them, in fact. The “Carrie necklace” goes to Tania, whose name comes in well under the allotted 12 letters. She’ll be the envy of all the other girls (and not a few of the boys) if she wears it to “Sex and the City 2.”
The confectionery consolation prize winner is Catseye. As we all know, confections have a stupendous capacity to console. In this case, that’s a bag of Godiva milk chocolate strawberries and two Godiva bars (milk chocolate with almond, dark chocolate with extra-dark ganache filling).
Congratulations to both, and as for the rest of you: Suck it up. I wasn’t even eligible to win and you don’t hear me whining, do you?
VH from the Funny About Money blog has chosen one of my pieces — “Inattention can cost you. Ask me how I know.” – for this week’s Carnival of Money Stories.
It’s even an Editor’s Choice! I feel so validated, even though my toe still hurts.