banane - Latest Comments in Cash Free Weekend

Re: Cash Free Weekend

Kathy Me — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:09:08 -0000

Wow, what is it with hair cuts and scones? Maybe the menu at Mr. DOES make sense!

Re: Cash Free Weekend

banane — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:55:50 -0000

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).

Re: Cash Free Weekend

Nancy M — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:49:16 -0000

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

Re: Cash Free Weekend

banane — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:22:10 -0000

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

Re: Cash Free Weekend

Kathy Me — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:42:17 -0000

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...

Re: Cash Free Weekend

banane — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 02:39:17 -0000

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.

Re: Cash Free Weekend

psb — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 02:33:17 -0000

>(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.