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One thing that has helped a lot with my daughter’s sense of financial reality is that she has always gone to school with kids that have more and kids that have less. We live very frugally (android phone notwithstanding) and she has a really good sense of what things cost. She is a freshman in high school and has been thinking a lot about career-life balance, since she definitely wants to be a mother. She has worked as a mother’s helper, then babysitter since 6th grade and saves money for ipods, dyeing her hair, and such. When she was in 3rd or 4th grade I never thought she would be a saver–it seemed impossible for her to understand the concept. But she figured it out.
Being unemployed, especially for a long time is scary as hell and at times I have been depressed. At the same time, I now have the time to do some community work and it has been really rewarding and a sure fire cure for depression.
By lechacal on March 21, 2011 3:09 PM
Wait. Stop the presses. Everyone freeze.
*Rob* is trolling the NY Times real estate section for listings for houses in Irvington???
He got a really big tax refund.
no i just happen to be reading the paper when irvington popped out at me cuz it’s all you talk about
*rob*
Lech, your OT boasts of Irvington will draw lots of slopers up to that town. Just pray they’re the ones you like
denton–how does it differentiate between the false alarms and the police? I thought that was the crucial fault in urban radar detection, ie their inability to distinguish the real thing from all the noise…
“squirrels in the roof will definitely be an interesting outcome with Lech”
The squirrels would be wise to avoid my roof.
Neighbor: “Hey there lech, how’s it going?”
Lech: “Good.”
Neighbor: “Grilling today, huh?”
Lech: [looking up with that look that Vince D’onofrio had when he played Gomer Pyle in Full Metal Jacket] “Uh-huh.”
Neighbor: “Smells good. What….. what….. what exactly is that?”
Lech: “Meat.”
“Excuse me benson, but what about dropping out of high school is self-destructive? Dropping out of high school was one of the best decisions I ever made.”
Lech;
The exception does not prove the rule. For exceptional individuals such as yourself, dropping out of high school isn’t detrimental. For the vast majority of folks, it is highly deterimental.