Bank Advice
Money goes out (car, rent) and money comes in (bank)
Round here they call receipts ‘advice’. So the automatic teller asks if you’d like advice. I always wonder if one day the little slip of paper will emerge that reads ‘Don’t spend so much!’. It never does.
On another banking note, I always spend everything on available on my credit card. Then they raise the limit, and I spend that amount. I hate them, yet I never turn the money down. It’s horrid. My entire life I have been making more money but remaining a constant level of broke. Whatever money I get, I spend. That is, the percentage I spend is a constant 100%. Actually, more like 150% since, as a ‘responsible adult’, I get access to credit. Wish the ATM would give me some advice about that.
This is highly dubious. Miss Travel is a travel/social networking site that connects ‘Generous’ and ‘Attractive’ travelers. To, like, travel together, I guess. It all seems a bit like arranged prostitution and trafficking. This is part of a broader online trend to connect rich men to younger, attractive women. Sites like
Sri Lankan domestics never say anything, they just stop coming. My maid just stopped coming and when I finally pressed her she said I needed to get a washing machine. I was hoping to ride this one out, but I’ve run out of underwear and I have no choice. I finally caved and bought a washing machine, from
There’s nothing wrong with pornography, but there’s a lot wrong with porn. Nothing wrong with watching people have sex, but too often that sex is brutal, senseless and coerced. I mean how many couples are coming on each others faces every day? Hence, philosopher king Alain de Botton – after calling for a
Sri Lanka is going to start offer 
So true about money, and the credit card limit. Several years ago I had to practically beg a private bank to get a Credit card with 20,000 limit. Now at least they have realized the potential and turned the situation around, begging us to use their credit cards.
I always felt a damn shame if I EVER ran out of money at a shop or store, and having a credit card does really maintain your cool and avoid shame [don't know why but I can't help the feeling shame part]
A lot of things can be said about a person by examining his car keys.
Car, gate, flat, parents’ house, old flat (really should return).
Well, considering the inflation rate, it makes more sense to spend than to hang onto money that is just going to decrease in value. Depressing.