They say that the way you start the year is the way you’ll live it. If that’s true, then DF and I are up for plenty of luck, love and frugality in 2015.
Plenty of sleep, too: The only way we knew it was midnight was that some of our neighbors started setting off illegal fireworks.
Here’s how those four things shook down:
A recent study from the NerdWallet consumer blog — love that name — indicates that men still pick up the tab way too automatically.
(Yes, I’m aware that men still tend to out-earn women; I’ll address that in a minute)
But seriously? I thought this kind of thing was supposed to have gone out after the 1970s:
77.4 percent of those surveyed thought men should pay for the first date.
Even in a relationship, 56.1 percent of men still pay for date nights.
Almost 40 percent of men cover all household bills; just 14.3 percent of women do.
Remind me: In which century are we living? I just don’t see how this is fair.
Who here is sick of receiving e-mail forwards like “To women everywhere from a man who’s had enough”?
Normally I have at least a nodding tolerance for such stereotypical humor. Not this time. Maybe it was the wrong time of the month for me to be reading it.
I kid! In fact, I just thought it demanded an answer – especially if it would give me a chance to be just as sexist and condescending as the original author, whoever he is.
Since I got to Anchorage a couple of weeks ago my hostess and I have been paying it both forward and backward.