Cheap

Thrifty, economical, frugal, parsimonious, prudent, or cheap. Those are all words that describe me. I love saving money. It's almost like a game. My electric bill is generally around $13 each month, and I love perusing the circulars and clipping coupons. It's because of my spendthrift ways that I have stumbled on a website that I want to let you guys know about. It is www.bethriftylikeus.blogspot.com. It is the best blog ever!!!!!

Now, along these lines, I am now to the point where I wish I no longer had a tattoo (yes, dear mother, fall off the chair when you read that; you are finally right). To make matters worse, it is on my ankle. So, because I don't want to influence the kids in any way, if I wear a skirt to church, I have to put a band-aid over it. I looked into scar make-up and have a couple that kind of work, but it is like an artist session to make them match the shading of my pasty white ankles (who knew pasty involved a number of uber pale colors).

So, I did some investigating. Laser surgery is horribly expensive, and I checked into those tattoo removal creams. No legitimate source of dermatology indicates that those work at all. I thought about asking a tattoo artist if they could tattoo over it with white, and then it would just look like those large white patches that Michael Jackson claims he has. However, because it has color in it, white won't make a difference. However, what about purple? Yes, honest to goodness, that is what flashed through my mind (what about purple). I could get a tattoo person to go over it in and create an odd shape in purple and then just pretend it is a port wine stain. It would only cost like $35. What to do, what to do.

For the moment, my tattoo remains, I have a full supply of band-aids, and I am wearing lots of pants.