Useless Poll

[lunabee34]

Okay, here's the thing.

I'm a thrifty gal. I grew up in the one of the cheapest families known to man and while I don't think I've carried that tendency as far as some of my relatives, I know how to pinch a penny. I cut my dryer sheets in half because those fragrance free ones that Josh and Emma have to use are expensive and half works just as well as a full sheet. I don't waste and I look for sales and I almost never shop for myself. I usually wait until it's a necessity, like I've grown so fat I have no pants that will fit me or all my underwear is full of holes. We will not speculate on the reasons for that. *g*

However, I'm not stingy. I like to spend money on experiences--travel, food, drink, comfort (I run the AC higher than I should in the summer because I'm not sweating in my own house). I know that sometimes you just can't be cheap because whatever you're buying is worth the money.

But this? This crosses the line. I love my fashion mags, but I am continually flabbergasted at what many of the items featured cost. I get expensives dresses and coats and jewelry, but the 200$ T-shirt is a thing I will never understand. So, poll!

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Comments

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

Is that you in your icon?

Because way cool.

[mofic.livejournal.com]

Yeah, me an a baby orangutan. A very long time ago.

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

Cool!

Are you a biologist? Or zoologist?

[mofic.livejournal.com]

LOL! No, I was at a zoo and somehow managed to persuade the keeper, who was moving the baby orangutan into her night cage, to let me have my picture taken with her. I stood there holding her hand, but then she put her arms up just like a human baby to be picked up, so I did.

You can't tell in the icon since it's so small but she's got one loooooonnnnnnngggg arm all the way around the back of my neck and coming out the other side on the shoulder :-).

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

That is really super cool.

I've seen orangutans at zoos but never had an up close personal encounter with one.

:)

[mofic.livejournal.com]

Well this was long ago (early 1980s) and far away (Delhi, India). It could not happen here and now.

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

Oh cool!

I've never visited India. Were you living there at the time or just visitin?

*is incurably nosy*

[mofic.livejournal.com]

Just visiting. My spouse (at the time, now ex) and I spent a month there. We stayed with friends in Delhi and traveled to Bombay, Maharashtra, Agra, Rajasthan. We did a lot of stuff in and around Delhi, too. The tours we went on were ones for Indian tourists and we were staying with an Indian family (friends who had been in grad school at McGill when we were undergrads), so I feel like we got a good taste of the culture. I'd love to go back but have never had the time and the money at the same time.

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

When I was an undergrad, we had several very good friends who were Indian (and also, incidentally, from Delhi) and there was much bandying about the idea of taking a trip to India with them, but Josh and I never did. A couple of our guy friends did end up going home with A.C. one summer adn we are all incurably jealous but none of the rest of us could afford the airfare.

:)