miss van

Oh bliss, a whole day without working and the chance of blogging some inspiring work by somebody else. Found through the lovely artdorks. No working is exaggerated of course, so much illustrating creates a backlog of al sorts of very profane things. Like taxes. I'm running late on those. But I did discover why it is that everybody else with our kind of money drives around in big cars and goes on holidays a zillion times a year. Turns out I kept paying gas bills for our old house, more than half a year. Almost a thousand dollars. I am such a fool, I just pay any bill I find in my mailbox. And Michiel found a three year old cheque of four hundred that he never cashed. We could just as well be throwing our money out of the window. Never mind, we did have some laughs too, today. Nice anecdote. We went to the paint shop for a new shade of blue porch paint. We talked about house colours with the paint shop guy. One day, he told us, a man came into his shop and asked for the cheapest paint possible to paint his house. So he sold him a mix of all kinds of left overs, a hideous colour. The next day, the man's across the street neighbours came in, and bought a colour of their choice, they paid over two hundred dollars. The paint shop guy was asked to make the tins look real old and used. They then gave the paint to their neighbour, stating "Look what we found in our basement! Why don't you use this colour?"

And so my question to you is: "Did you ever spend or loose money in a really peculiar, odd, strange or plain stupid way?"