NO PARKIN BABY, NO PARKIN ON THE DANCE FLOOR.....
First off, thanks for all the great emails and comments, and for taking some of these ideas and thoughts to heart, it means a lot to me. And if you are just now joining or following, please go back and...
View ArticleI just wanted to tell you that I think you're an amazing actor and that...
Thats wildly kind of you…thanks so much and I hope you keep watching (and reading, lol)…..WG
View ArticleWhat we've done to save money...
Hi Willie! Thanks so much for your blog - great reading and tips. Let me get my star struck self out of the way by telling you how much I enjoy your character on WC - you, and the rest of the cast are...
View ArticleI love your blog. I love Mozzie too. I discovered White Collar this summer...
I love your blog. I love Mozzie too. I discovered White Collar this summer and am ashamed to say you. I must have been living under a rock or a pile of diapers the last 10 years. I count myself as one...
View ArticleTAKE A LOOK AT YOURSELF AND MAKE THAT----CHANGE.....
Thanks again for all of your comments, so great. Many of you are thinking so wisely, and have given yourself deserved pats on the back for figuring out great ways to save in so many areas, without...
View ArticleIF YOU BUILD IT........
It would probably surprise many people who know me that I could be considered “handy”. I know you rarely see little bald men with glasses swinging a hammer, or wearing a tool belt (unless you have some...
View ArticleIT'S MY PARTY AND I'LL CRY IF I WANT TO........
Events. Huge topic. So many of you have commented on them. Lemme ramble first. I grew up with parents who got married simply and elegantly. A HUGE wedding was for the society pages. Rockefellers,...
View ArticleI DON'T CARE TO BE A MEMBER OF ANY CLUB THAT WILL HAVE ME.....
Groucho Marx was making a JOKE. Belong to all of them. It’s absolutely crazy not to. My AMEX rewards pays for my newspapers. We all know about the amazing discounts that AAA provides. And obviously...
View ArticleWHERE DID ALL MY MONEY GO???
REALLY??? YOU DON’T KNOW???? We ALL have heard someone say “I don’t now where my money goes.” We may have said it ourselves. Well next time you hear someone say that, follow these simple steps: 1)Hit...
View ArticleHMMMM....VERY INTERESTING..........
What’s your interest rate? We all have them, be it from a car loan, a home loan, and the dreaded, absolutely insane….CREDIT card. We have school loans, rates of deposit….in my case, I had a loan from...
View ArticleASK.....DON'T TELL........
I’ve written about this before a little bit. There is nothing worse than the person who knows everything. The worst fight I ever had with someone ended with me saying— “When did you get your degree?”....
View ArticleREADY, WILLING, AND ABLE......
I had a long talk with our nanny/housekeeper yesterday. She’s a really great woman. She has a masters degree, teaches yoga, plats organic gardens for people, works in public radio and has an Emmy Award...
View Article"NATHEN WENT TO COLLEGE TO GET MORE KNOWLEDGE.......
……Willie went to Jupiter to get more stupider…….”——-that’s what Nathen says to me every day. It’s awesome. Of course he doesn’t understand that Willie went to the school of his choice, and graduated in...
View ArticleSPOOKY SCARY FREAKY.........
It’s a holiday indeed. After you have saved money on your pumpkins (that sounds dirty) at Trader Joes (for 2.99), and your candy at 99 Cent Store (duh….for 99 CENTS), and your costume that you might...
View ArticleYOU GONNA USE THAT??
The best part about trick-or-treating for a freak like me is of course seeing other people’s houses. There’s nothing better than trying to look as far into someone’s home as possible while they are...
View Article"......A CHICKEN IN EVERY POT....."
Years ago, you could run an entire political campaign on the idea of the “luxury” of people having a chicken. Read that again——HAVING A CHICKEN. That meant that a family could eat. They could roast it,...
View Articlejust a clarification.......
The buyback of candy by registered dentists is a national program, to encourage our kids (with alarmingly high obesity rates) to eat less sweets (saving their teeth as well), and also do some goodwill...
View Article"....AND ALL THE FIXINS......."
Yesterday I did alot of work on the house. First i fixed the fountains outside. They seemed really daunting and scary——who knows anything about a pump for a fountain really? Well it turns out it is...
View ArticleGONE, BABY, GONE........
….Excellent film by the way….. I am here to tell you that TOMORROW, FRIDAY, will be my last posting on SMARTNOTCHEAP….for now. If you have been reading from the beginning (they are all here if you...
View ArticleAND AWAY WE GO.......
That’s a quote from Jackie Gleason, the greatest who ever lived by the way…and it’s fitting…..he lived life FULLY….my guess is that he probably never saved a dime on anything, but man did he know how...
View Article
