Apr 7, 2009
The Daily Poverty Post.
This week is Spring Break for the local schools, which means everyone goes to Germany except Bossy and her family, who stay behind so they can argue and clean the house.
Yesterday Bossy tackled the living room, and the above is what she found when she peeled back a section of her living room rug near the front door. A sequin, icky dirt and — what is that sand? — but also, a dime!
If Bossy keeps moving at this rate, she may get a free cup of coffee out of her downstairs alone.
My kids have spring break, too. While their friends took off skiing or to places like Belize and south pacific islands, my kids got to accompany mom and dad . . . to law school! Par-tay! I brought my students pizza, so at least my daughter got a free lunch. (I guess to her lunch is always “free.)
hey i think that dime fell out of my pocket on inauguration day…
Wow! That sounds a lot like our Spring Break- not the going to Germany part- the staying home part.
And I didn’t even find a dime, so I’m pale AND poor. Dare to dream.
Tee-hee, I went to Germany over spring break once! But that was many many many many years ago, before our entire economy went kaputt.
You can make like you’re in Germany, though. Just eat a ton of yummy baked goods, drink some damn fine beer, crack open some brats and sauerkraut, and you are SET.
Germany?
When I was about 20, I sorted through a big box of birthday cards I’d received through my childhood before I chucked ‘em. Good thing… I found like 200 bucks in “lost” money!
Since others are confessing, I will do the same.
Recently, I found $50 AmEx gift cheque and a $50 Border’s gift card when I cleaned out my office.
Bossy’s dime would go a long way in Cancun.
and I even had one word left!
The gang at work regularly checks the coin returns in the parking garage meters. Last year we found $35 without much trying. This year we’re up to about $20 already. Pizza party!
Wasn’t that part of your lunch salad from the other day? No, it couldn’t be . . . no cashews.
I check parking lots and sidewalks all the time and sometimes find pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters. And yes, I’ll even pick up a penny. Found a dollar one time,too. Yay me!
Don’t forget to look under the sofa cushions …
Come do that at my house. You’ll find enough change to buy a coffee franchise.
…and enough dirt to fill Lake Ontario.
Everyone here went somewhere warm except for all high school lacrosse players. My older son has 4 lacrosse games. We didn’t go anywhere!
We didn’t go away either. Bug Boy’s classmates are in Canadialand and Europe and the islands and Cali-fohr-Ny-AY.
We never went anyplace for spring break. All my kid’s had been in sports in school. I don’t know how it is now, but If you left for break, you sat on the bench during the season. None of them wanted to sit. I hope it has changed since my kid’s went to school.
did you check the dryer for money? and pens? and keys? I found a $20 in the dryer once – finders keepers!
I was cleaning out my office / spare bedroom for an impending Mother visit and found a $1000 paycheck from the year before.
We had felt the pinch at the time but couldn’t figure out why.
cleaning always means found money to me. Same as putting on coats and suit coats…BINGO…there’s a fivvver.
Two days ago, I found $35 in the dryer!! Laws, I done fell out and caught the vapors. Thank you, laundry gods, for the Sephora money and my new Laura Mercier Hydrating Foundation Primer.
Forget coffee. I’m presently scrounging under cushions and shaking out jeans to scrape up enough money to buy laundry soap.
How much laundry soap can $3.45 buy?