As night falls, Chris sleeps with his special dollar by his pillow as Lois exchanges messages with Ernie. Peter rouses from sleep long enough to tell her that he doesn't want her talking to him anymore but she gives him a final goodnight. Contribute to this page Suggest an edit or add ...
“It is a dollar a week. But tell you what. You drop a load of corncobs behind my outhouse and I’ll give you that subscription.” “If I had corncobs I wouldn’t need your newspaper.” This is an old joke, and we wonder about those cobs. Surely that would tear you up so bad...
He would always give each of us $10,000 in hundred-dollar bills. As soon as we got home, we’d spend it — whooo! Then, one Christmas there was an envelope with a letter from him. Instead of cash, he’d given us $10,000 worth of shares in a company he’d recently bought, a...
I hope that the good people at Houzz take note that a significant proportion of readers are not millionaires doing $100K remodels and that we love to see low budget or DIY projects along with the money saving ideas and dollar store fixes. While I appreciate that this isn't a DIY type ...
annoyed at having to waste the dollar, but knowing the clinic would insist. Following a few minutes of Googling early menopause and uterine cancer symptoms as possibilities for my missing period, I glanced at the test before tossing it, only to see that it was, indeed,positive.After Jake was...
dumb Planet Fitness guy picking things up and putting them down. It was really embarrassing now that I think of it. I have no idea how much money he spent on her that day between Walmart and some dollar store, and cigarettes. Eventually it was really time for us to leave unless we wa...
My dad’s favorite hobby was magic. He always had a couple of trick coins or a mysteriously-changing two-dollar bill in his pocket. And he loved the reaction he could get from strangers when he would work a magical effect into his common, everyday interactions with them. They’d smile ...
At the time of this writing, a black-and-white striped satin jacket from 1977 is sitting just above $5,700 with 25 bids. A space-themed vest similar to the one Petty wore atLive Aidis up to $1,000 with 14 bids. Other high-dollar items include his blue and white denim jackets, a...
For every dollar spent, communities gain $4 to $9 in return because students who\’ve attended pre-K are more likely to graduate and contribute to the economy and less likely to need public assistance or become incarcerated. All-day kindergarten is a good step, but Akron still needs ...
When the performance ended, several passengers gave the young dancer dollar bills, five-dollar bills, and even ten-dollar bills. Their generosity impressed me. Just then, at the other end of the car, an older man got on and began (started) asking for money. He was...