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Watermelon + More Tales form Foreclosure Central

July 9th, 2011 at 08:35 pm

My food saving trick is to freeze bananas for smoothies. Works in the spring/summer, anyway. Sometimes we devour them all in a day or 2, and sometimes they get forgotten, but freezing them salvages them. I always cut them up for freezing - which makes them like little banana ice cubes!

Bought a watermelon for 4th of July and so cut some up to freeze. Aaaah - divine!!!

I still have half a watermelon in the fridge so will slice some up for the family today and freeze the rest. Maybe 1/4, each.

MIL told me she expects to bring us leftover watermelon next week, as well. She was delighted at the idea of freezing it.

Of course, my friend was just telling me how she pickles watermelons (the rind?). Interesting.

For his birthday, LM wanted to go to the pool *alone.* BM as at another birthday party. In the end - swimming alone wasn't all that exciting. Wink

Once I sign off I will make some smoothies, slice watermelon, and work on his birthday cake.

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Our renting neighbors moved out. They had been foreclosed on and were the epitome of the Joneses.

As I watched the new "Extremely expensive cars/toys" move in next door, I briefly wondered why the renters always seemed to have the most expensive crap. I personally have no preconceived notion that *renters* are less well off - but I do think people with a lot of expensive toys are generally less well off. Has been my own experience. Our neighborhood seems to attract extremely Jonesy renters and owners.

Anyway, met the new neighbor today. VERY NICE, but the first thing he tells me is he lost his house. Well, I hadn't assumed *that.* But really, no surprise. I am continually surprised of how open people are about their financial whoas.

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Reminds me, we were watching a comedy show last night. The guy REALLY wanted this $17 million home in New York. (His budget was initially $2500/month - which you know would buy crap in NYC). When he met with his accountant, the guy is like, "Do I really have to spell it out for you??? You have $6,000 in the bank. You can afford a $6,000 house."

So he moves in to the house.

LOL.

I just loved it. Dh and I were kind of confused at first, and he says to me, "I think this speaks to the ridiculous living situations portrayed on TV - in sitcoms and such."

*ding ding ding*

Having come from a high cost area, I am always noticing how ridiculous the homes and apartments are compared to income portrayed. It's hard to ignore. I can't even watch the Simpsons without wondering why they have such a NICE and large home. LOL.

7 Responses to “Watermelon + More Tales form Foreclosure Central”

  1. ThriftoRama Says:
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    Funny, and so true. I.e. Sex and the City. Carrie is a freelance writer/ columnist. So am I, and for what we get paid to live in New York, we'd have to share a 200 square foot roach motel in the ghetto!

    We wonder why people have such unrealistic expectations.

  2. MonkeyMama Says:
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    Yeah - anything filmed in NYC is beyond ridiculous (I have several friends who have lived there - roaches, murphy beds, 200sf and all). I suppose I could say the same for California.

    Even the whole "Real Housewives" brand. The very first episode they were trying to hint these were upper middle class neighborhoods - and I just rolled my eyes as they showed MULTI-million dollar lifestyles of the uber wealthy. Of course, turns out they are all broke and foreclosure anyway. Which is probably one reason that I found this one comedic episode so funny! I Was thinking to one of the housewives as it played out. It SOUNDS crazy, but even real people somehow manage to act like they have 1000 times the income/assets they really do. For a very short window of time, anyway.

  3. Just Me Says:
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    You can freeze watermelon? I love watermelon and the thought of watermelon "popsicles" sounds divine. Do you freeze on a cookie sheet after they are cubed then bag them or just put them in a bag and freeze? I would think the juice would make them one giant popsicle when they freeze. Thanks for the tip!

  4. ThriftoRama Says:
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    You can blend watermelon with cilantro and put them in popsicle molds. It's fantastic.

  5. North Georgia Gal Says:
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    I have often thought the same thing about sitcoms. They are very unrealistic but it probably puts the ideas in someone'd head.

  6. MonkeyMama Says:
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    @Thriftorama - sounds YUM! Will have to try that (or add cilantro to the smoothies?)

    @Just Me - I actually just threw the watermelon pieces in a reusable plastic container. I suppose they stuck together a bit, but should be easy to separate. (I just threw them in a blender anyway). Freezing them on a cookie sheet is probably a good idea to keep the pieces separated.

  7. ceejay74 Says:
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    Great topic, unrealistic homes in film. The funniest ones for me were the apartments in the TV series "Friends"--no way those baristas are affording that apartment--and in the movie Tootsie. Starving actor and playwright live in this MASSIVE apartment in NYC. Love that movie but once I was old enough to know anything, I realized how ridiculous that was.

    I first realized about cost of living in college: went to my friend's parents' house in the Hollywood hills (he was a surgeon/former funk musician star) and it was smaller than my parents' suburban Virginia house. Then visited another friend at her lawyer sister's house; she'd mentioned her sister made six figures. The NYC apartment seemed so small and shabby compared with what I expected. LOL. It's so funny thinking back when I didn't know anything about relative cost of living and other things.

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