home equity loan paid

[this is a ymoyl update.] another bump in the expenses line, as i paid off dan's home equity loan. some people get inheritances, others inherit debts. 🙂 well, it's gone. w00t! debt-free!!

college loans paid

[this is a ymoyl update.] big bump in the expenses this month, as i took a big chunk out of the savings account and paid off my college loans, the last of my personal debts.

disposal

it was dan's birthday a few days ago, so i spent some time at the cemetery, and it occurred to me that i don't like either of the most common options for disposing of our bodies when we're through with them. the "good christian burial", as i understand it, came about because of the belief…

one plate, one fork, one spoon

time to explain the title of this section. last winter, i checked living the simple life, another of elaine st. james's books, out of the library. it had a bibliography in the back which i photocopied before i returned the book, and i've read a couple of the recommended books. one of them was clutter…