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Coming this Month in September!

Lord have mercy, we are in another month for the year 2015.  If some of y'all like me and you saying this year is flying by . . .for some of us this a good while for others it may not.

For a lot of parents this is a good thing because it is the start of another school for their children who are going back to school or have already started school.  Who is doing the dance of joy on this one?  If you don't have little ones still at home, this means peace and quiet for you at home until 3 p.m. For other parents it means fewer less children. (Geçmiş olsun!)  But it also brings all the after school programs, those parent-teacher conferences that many parents dread, and those Fridays' night games.

For all you new college students, for the first month you will be stupid to things but after that you will be okay.  For all you second year students who did not learn anything in your first year, then consider yourself still stupid!  For you third year students who have managed to get this far congratulation, but you still have not cleared the stupid range just yet.  And those of you who have final made it to this last year of college, you are about to meet the most scariest teacher in your  college life that will make stupid you like you were when you were a freshmen.  (Geçmiş olsun!)

For all of you who decide to embark on getting that Master degree, I encourage you to become a member of a wine club because you will need to stay objective in your writing.  And for those of you who have moved on to getting that Ph. D, I recommend that you find a friend who currently gets a subscription of Vicodin from their doctor.  By the way, geçmiş olsun!

It is the start for yet another wonderful school year of high financial expenses.  Depending on what level your children are at and how many children you have in school.  Elementary school is not so bad with school supplies, Halloween candy and costumes, picture day, Christmas parties, Valentine candy, Easter party and birthday parties at school.  It is not that bad!

For you parents who have kids in high school, we have homecoming game and party, turn-a-bouts, class pictures, prom for our juniors and seniors, and graduation for our seniors.  That is not bad!

For your college student parents', for each that child is in college they will spend a third of your savings.  If you don't believe me here is what you should do: one, save all the receipts from the items that you brought them at the beginning of the year for their dorm living (don't forget to include the gas money you had to spend to them to the dorm); two, keep receipts of all expenses for the whole year including travel and extra spending money; and three, keep all moving out of the dorm expenses this would include gas money too.  then add it all up . . .you probably spend more than a third.  As a parent you have the right to tell your child to get a job to help pay for some of these expenses.

And for those of you who getting that Master or that Ph. D, you are shit out of luck! Your parents can NOT help you at this stage in your life. So man up or woman up and pay for those expenses out of your own pocket.  Yeah, it will hurt while you are getting that degree and it will hurt even more when you finish and got that job to help pay back that money. (Smiles)  This is why I am recommending that you join a wine club.  So it can hurt less, not much but a little less.

Today starts a new 8 week class for me and the start of my social media university classes. So while y'all are reading this, I have already called Asia and she and I are headed to Cooper Hawks to get our case of wine! (She got a 5th grader, an 8th grader, and a junior in high school) She more than a case.



 

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