What sucks about dining in is the lack of flexibility on what I get to do socially during the week. I mean honestly, if a friend calls you last minute to have dinner (as was the situation on Monday) do you value your leftovers more than friendship? Ugh. I hate that notion. Of course I don't! But what was I going to do? Say no, I have to go home to eat when she was obviously hinting that she wanted to tell me she was pregnant and I am the first person besides her spouse she was going to tell?

It amazes me how people assume that those who are financially responsible are boring. "They have money and don't spend it, so they must be!" is what one chic said. I also learned that we have no lives. We don't know how to have fun. All we care about is money. And oh, we're all misers too. LOL!

A few weekends ago, my wife and I decided to set up a basket in our hall, tucked under an alcove, that will be the "Give Away" pile. Both of us are always coming across things in the house that need to go to Goodwill or wherever, and since we never had a place for it be stored, oftentimes it went back into it's home until the next time it was found. Well, no more.

I figured that since we have baskets to organize our financial records - shred, file, taxes, etc - that we should have a place to put the stuff we don't want. So this wicker basket sits in the alcove, waiting to be filled with things we no longer want or need.

Remember in the movie, The Firm, after everything has gone horribly wrong, the wife (Jeanne Tripplehorn) reminds the husband (Tom Cruise) how happy they were back when they were broke and enjoyed take-out from a carton? I don't believe that being broke equals marital happiness, but I believe that we must remember that the things that brought us together didn't cost a dime.