a gringa who usually lives in the Wrigley Field Night Game Parking Zone, so Cinco de Mayo is real to me. And yet, the reason for the season has been a mystery to me. It’s not a statutory public holiday in Mexico, unlike March 21 (Benito Juarez’s birthday) or Labor Day (May 1). Marketers are… [Read More]
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Vegan Holiday Entree: Pumpkin-Stuffed Jumbo Shells with Bread Crumb Topping
This post has nothing to do with anything that I usually write about. However, it features an absolutely wonderful and vegan holiday entree—pumpkin shells. The recipe ran in Vegetarian Times about 25 years ago, and I realized that I needed a link so that I could easily share the recipe when people request it. The… [Read More]
Overspending and the holidays
One of the fascinating aspects of human societies is how people are driven to create holidays that involve mandatory transfers of wealth. We’re heading into the insanity of the many year-end holidays celebrated by different groups in the United States. One of the financial questions raised by this is, how big a problem is overspending… [Read More]
Gifts and the Singularity of Common Life Events
One of the ways that bloggers get ideas is to look for things that people search for. One day, in my site statistics, I found that someone had found this using the search terms “cheap married people poor gift giving -wedding”. The searcher ended up at this post on the economics of gifts. Those search… [Read More]
Post-holiday thoughts on the value of gifts
The enormous holiday season from Halloween to Elvismas, is upon us. Another seasonal standby is the article about the value of presents, both in religious and in economic terms. Many cultures have different ways of compelling people to redistribute wealth and/or give alms to the poor. Many of the Native tribes of the Northwest United… [Read More]
