Archive for October, 2007
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
It's Money Skimming Month. The Donkey shares his secrets for surviving, even thriving, despite the meager allowance approved by The Wife.
The Increase Your Income Method
This is a classic move that will add bills to your wallet in no time; however it's a much more challenging technique when compared to previous ...
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Monday, October 29th, 2007
Poll results for the Great Toe Debate
Ok, ok, ok... So it's not a good idea to leave a sharp object hidden under a bunch of junk, especially if there is a donkey around.
Great Debate Totals
The Donkey: 3 (West; Farm; Toe)
The Wife: 1 (Rudy)
Draw: 1 (Treo)
I need to go clean out ...
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Saturday, October 27th, 2007
Anyone who has had a job should be familiar with performance appraisals. These typically occur 1-4 times a year and are designed to evaluate an employee’s performance and identify strengths and areas for improvement. This tool can also be applied to marriage. Or so I thought.
Lesson 10: Don’t email your ...
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Thursday, October 25th, 2007
Pain in the Hoof
He Said
We owned one of those little cheap metal floor lamps that comes in three pieces that screw together. We had it for several years until we finally gave it to my brother. A year after that, the lamp reappeared in our living room and sat in ...
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
It's Money Skimming Month. The Donkey shares his secrets for surviving, even thriving, despite the meager allowance approved by The Wife.
The Return And Reward Yourself Method
I love book buyback because it is always seems like free money. Plus, no one really knows how much you got back. You can ...
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Monday, October 22nd, 2007
Dinner on us?
NOTE: This post discusses a reward that we used to give when we printed and answered reader questions. This reward is NOT being offered currently. Instead, we hold other various giveaways periodically, so stay tuned! In the meantime, we are still answering reader questions. Need advice? Contact us ...
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Monday, October 22nd, 2007
Driving Me Crazy
Here's where we answer our our readers' questions. Please don't blame us if the suggestions don't work for you. You're the one taking advice from a donkey.
Dear Donkey and Wife
My husband often asks me to take a turn driving, but then he criticizes the way I drive ...
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
More often than not, when I meet one of The Donkey's friends or coworkers for the first time, I hear something like:
"Oh, so you're the lucky one."
"At last--we get to meet the lady crazy enough to marry this guy!"
"How do you put up with him?"
"Has he always been so crazy?"
"You ...
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
The results are in on the West is Best debate. Sort of.
We're not exactly sure what happened. One minute the poll was working fine: votes were being tallied, and our children's future speech patterns were being set. The next thing we knew, the poll was showing zero ...
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
Recently I was playing with Dimples, coaxing him to fit little shapes into their corresponding outlines on a toy box. Whenever he got one right, I would clap excitedly and say, "Yay!" We repeated the process again and again. This pattern of Solve Problem-Earn Reward is reinforced ...
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