Coupon Crasy

"Can you go broke saving money?"

Having recently discovered sites like Save.ca, Bargainmoose.ca, smartcanucks.ca and redflagdeals.com, one wonders how CDN families can be without sites like these. From coupons sent to your home to alerts on free products and trial offers, the average consumer can get a lot of stuff for a lot less money.

Perfecting the technique of buying only what you truly need is at the heart of the issue. No matter how great a bargain, if you don't need it - don't buy it.

A fan of Gail's Till Debt do us part, an all cash weekly budget can get strained by so many online deals.

Suffice it to say, shop wisely and thoughtfully, else you find yourself broke from saving money.

Roommate versus Spouse

Remember having a roommate? If you had a good roommate, you tried really hard to make it work. Nothing worse than losing a good roommate. You know the one that paid the rent on time, cleaned up after themselves and took care of the place.

This all changes when you replace the roommate with a spouse.

For a woman, a spouse is much more work than a roommate. A good roommate does their own laundry, buys their own food and shares in the household work. AND, you don't have to sleep with them.

Is a booty call really worth having to do all the menu planning, prep and clean up, house cleaning, laundry washing, drying and folding as well as 90% of the childcare duties for someone who snores and hogs your covers?

Katherine Hepburn had it right. "I often wonder whether men and women really suit eachother. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then."

Lost Boy

Like pineapple (rarely bought and usually the first to go) on a standard North American fruit plate, so enters a specimen to our workout world. From somewhere down under, Kiwi or Aussie, it matters not. What matters is, he's young, he's new and he's foreign (the fact that he could be the scruffy-bearded character from Lost does not hurt either). That is enough to get the hearts and naughty bits a humming to the sound of spring. PYTs, cougars and even the men have found their way to this bodacious flower.

And yes, ladies (sorry guys), he's on the prowl.

Tween/Teen

I was mortified to be a witness to a mother's berating of her teen/tween daughter on the weekend.

I am confident that I have done similar things to my own progeny and it made me very sad for this young girl.

The mother upon noticing the length of her daughter's underarm hair announced for all to hear that said daughter must immediately shave. The daughter protested with "I shave once a week" to which the mother replied "you are obviously going to have to do it more often ESPECIALLY with track season coming up". This berating encourage her pre-pubescent sister to try to more closely inspect the sheer length of said horror.

The outcome, the mom stormed out and her daughter remained behind in the change room stifling an inevitable flood of tears refusing to go for a swim in her polka-dotted bikini.

I ached for that girl.

And I wonder, is shaving armpit hair that important.

So, what standard of "beauty" do you adhere to that has been predetermined by someone else/society?

Spiderman - the musical

Isn't it bad enough we had to endure CATS?

Now, spiders?

Is a musical about Spiderman necessary?

And beyond necessary, desirable?

Hot versus Cold

A recent beer commercial would have us believe that a man woudl give up hot sex to protect his cold beer.

I, for one, think that the guy is a MORON.

I don't think that was the company's intent.

But the question remains, what would you rather have hot sex or a cold beer?

Hooking up

Meeting online when the Internet was first born was a much less risk-free venture than it is today.

Even the biggest baffoon can hide behind an avatar with relative ease.

This doesn't bode well for a 15 year old girl meeting a 21 year old man looking for a little action.