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Secret Spending

May 14th, 2020 at 05:00 am

Does that headline sound naughty? I think I could give y'all 100 guesses and you wouldn't come up with what I spent $7.99 on. What? You guessed Monopoly houses and hotels? Gees, you're smart!

My DD and I are fed up with my DH's cutthroat Monopoly playing. He plays so hard to win and tries to buy up all the houses, never changing to hotels just so we can't buy more houses. So I've bought a secret stash and will surreptitiously add one or two to the total number every few days.
If this isn't a sure sign that we've been cooped up together too long, I'm not sure what is.

In other news--one of my staff got her promotion file passed (hooray), now on to the dept approval tomorrow. I'd rather NOT think of the meeting tomorrow as they've scheduled (gulp) 2 1/2 hours on Zoom to unroll all the bad news. I may have to turn the camera off to hide the wine bottle.

I participated in an online focus group tonight for $20. I like these little side hustles. Graded projects most of the day and evening. Will be 1/3 done tomorrow, I swear.

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8 Responses to “Secret Spending”

  1. Carol Says:
    May 14th, 2020 at 10:53 am 1589453591
    1589453591

    Reading your post gave me a strong feeling of deja vu; I am a retired teacher. I thought: "Oh, I don't miss that grading! Then I thought, "I do miss the kids!"
    My DH is a cut throat player, too! Cool move with the extra monopoly pieces!

  2. Wink Says:
    May 14th, 2020 at 11:43 am 1589456592
    1589456592

    LOL...cut throat Monopoly!! I like your strategy!

  3. latestart Says:
    May 14th, 2020 at 01:08 pm 1589461724
    1589461724

    Hope they just blocked a long period of time for the meeting not because it will last that long.

  4. Petunia in a Flower Garden Says:
    May 14th, 2020 at 02:12 pm 1589465522
    1589465522

    ha ha ha ha ha! Resourceful! Can relate to being cooped up together too long.

  5. Petunia 100 Says:
    May 14th, 2020 at 05:02 pm 1589475739
    1589475739

    Have you guys played Monopoly Deal? It's a card game based on Monopoly. (Special deck of cards, not standard deck of playing cards.) That game is seriously cut-throat.

  6. My English Castle Says:
    May 15th, 2020 at 06:21 pm 1589566886
    1589566886

    Petunia--We played Deal at Christmas with my brother. It was cutthroat!

  7. rob62521 Says:
    May 17th, 2020 at 08:20 pm 1589746853
    1589746853

    My dad was a cut throat Monopoly player too. We had an ice storm when I was in high school in 1978 and for a week we were without power so we played Monopoly every night while we listened to the radio. I have kept the Monopoly board because it still has candle wax on it when we accidentally bumped the candle next to the board.

  8. Joan.of.the.Arch Says:
    May 19th, 2020 at 03:00 am 1589857256
    1589857256

    Hey, I pretty much go for the jugular in board games and see to it that the rules on the box lid are followed to the T, but I think your sneaking in some more houses is hilarious!

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