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Cash Free Weekend

Started by banane · 1 year ago

(an attempt to live without cash for 2 days, until my bank is open on Monday.)

Sat 7:00 PM On way back from movie realize wallet has been lost/stolen.

Sat 7:30 PM SMS friend to take me out and buy me dinner.

Sat 9:30 PM Read book, watch Ugly Betty online. Make pasta, tomato, and cheese dish.

Sat 9:45 [...] ... Continue reading »

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psb
2 years ago

>(an attempt to live without cash
>for 2 days, until my bank is open
>on Monday.)
>Sat 7:00 PM On way back from movie
>realize wallet has been lost/stolen.
>
hasnt this happened 3 or 4 times since
i've known you?

seriously, after reading those two lines
i was wodnering if this was something
hauled out of the archives for tax day
or something like that.

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banane
2 years ago

It's happened once- my rubber wallet was pickpocketed on the F Market, on the way to Zeitgeist, in 2005. I was almost pickpocketed in Beijing but thwarted it effectively by doing a basketball move. A dodge and sideways jump into traffic (3 tiny guys had triangulated me)

I actually think it's a good exercise to try to go cash free occasionally- to realize how much money we really need to get by day to day, on incidentals.

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Kathy Me
2 years ago

I caught part of an interview with this author on some talk show. It sounds like something I would just hate to do, but I'm glad someone else tried it. (Not sure how to put links in comments) http://www.amazon.com/Not-Buying-Year-Without-S...

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banane
2 years ago

Oh yeah- I've been meaning to read that. They're local, right? Like Palo Alto or something?

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Nancy M
2 years ago

YOU CUT YOUR OWN HAIR?
that alone earns you a free scone. hah!

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banane
2 years ago

I was gonna blog about it- b/c there's really nada on the web about how to cut hair. Seriously- I've looked. I love doing it by myself. Though my neighbor was joking that she wanted to "put her stamp" on my haircut as well and kept threatening me with her dog shears (!!!). I do a very mathematical approach learned from many, many "salon games" that me andmy sisters would play.

1) separate head into quadrants, use clips to pin up
2) cut bottom back hair. This is the hard part.
3) lower each symmetrical quadrant and even
4) I like to thin/layer as I go
5) do the top hair/bangs
6) Check for even-ness

Granted, I'm really not the most critical customer in the Salon de Bains (bathroom).

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