What I am Thankful For In 2015

Sometimes listing our gripes and outrages of the day is easier than to talk about what is going well. On a personal level this has been a great year for me, and for the world as a whole, despite some tragedies like the recent attack on Paris, we as a …

Money Isn’t Everything

I’m a big fan of money, which if you’ve read any of my 175 posts to date, you would already know that lol.  Sometimes opportunities come along to make a bit of extra money that you have to turn down and it hurts,  a lot.  Over the last 10 years …

How To Brave The Black Friday Crowds

Every year around this time we are inundated with amazing deals to get us into stores to buy anything from toys to TVs in the American holiday of Black Friday, which by the way is now Black Thursday.  Every year Mrs. C. braves the crowds in order to secure some …

Top 20 Practical Gifts For Christmas

One of my pet peeves about Christmas is the rabid consumerism.  We buy presents for people often because we feel required to buy them a gift, but oftentimes don’t put a lot of thought into it and have no idea what to get people.  The Christmas season is filled with …