March 19, 2007

  • Maggie MacFrugal Strikes ...

    My best friend calls me Maggie MacFrugal.  I get such a kick out of that.  I think of Maggie as this other person who lives inside me.  Maggie isn't a dowdy little killjoy, but she takes a demonic sort of Robin Hoodlike pleasure in saving money and getting a bargain.  And she's helping me to rework my money book into a manuscript I'll submit for publication.

    Lately, Maggie and I have been at odds.

    Kind of.

    I made a bone-headed money mistake that I know better than to do, but I did it anyway.  And Maggie keeps shaking her head at me and tapping the pointy toe of her stiletto heeled Marc Jacobs WHICH she got on sale.

    I spent my money twice.

    Yeah, I know.  Bone-headed.  See, I thought that my raise was coming through like promised, so I got my brakes fixed on my car.  Only they wound up costing about twice as much as I thought they were going to cost, so I charged them on my credit card thinking, "no big deal, I'll pay it off when I get my check ..."  But then something else came up and then something else came up and then this REALLY cute pair of shoes ... (calfskin uppers, adorable little bow on the vamp, and they are RED, which goes beautifully with the Navy look which is really hot this season) on sale at Dillards for less than a far less cute pair would have cost at Payless ... came up. 

    And the moral of the story is that no matter HOW cute the shoes are, Maggie would have walked right past them if she had already spent her money on brakes for the car. 

    So I'm thinking surely I can use this story and others in the book to illustrate the way that things should not be done?

    But on the other hand - I wore my incredibly cute shoes to work last week and one of my co-workers told me that the way I walk in high heels makes her think of Jessica Rabbit. 

    Um - I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way ....

    Tucker Tales ...MichelleDDivine

    We are deep in science fair season.  Tucker's project this year is to test the effect of different colored lights on plants.  So he has the red light in his bathroom which makes it a little dark.  He told me tonight that it's too dark to see and he won't be taking a bath until the experiment is over .... 

    2 1/2 more weeks?!? 

    I think not.

     

Comments (11)

  • ROFL!

    You are not allowed to stay gone so long ever again!

    I should know better than to be reading over here and thinking it's safe to take a drink of water...almost cleaned my monitor just now!

  • LOL!

    Put a box over the plant till bathtime is over, problem solved.

  •   Nice try, Mr. Tucker.

    Yes...I imagine you are not bad at all....just drawn that way. 

  • Oh I think I have a Maggie in me too but then I do stupid things about money. Judi

  • Maggie's a good friend to have.  In MY case, my Maggie is often drowned out by Barbara.  Darn it all.  But we're surviving.

  • I think the experiment should be what happens when a young boy doesn't take a bath for 2 weeks. Cheers.

  • Geez, Maggie, brakes AND sale-priced shoes?? You're out of control! If you'd like me to contribute to the "how not to manage your money" section of the book, I can do better than that ;)

  • Discipline is paramount
     
    sail on... sail on!!!

  • "Discipline" is a 4 letter word. Or am I thinking of "bath." Damnation.

  • heh
    but at least you can find shoes. (sighs)

  • Love those shoes.  To me they would be worth a little messed-up finances.  I can imagine how you feel wearing them....I would be positively mincing in them, LOL!

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