Feb 5th 2009 09:49 am Obsessive cash disorder
Here’s a cartoon! I know, I know, this week’s been worse than I thought it would be, but try to remember it’s all for a good cause. And, no, I was not intentionally making a joke when I said “a little behind” in the previous post. You give me too much credit.
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18 Responses to “Obsessive cash disorder”
Greg from Robertsdale on 05 Feb 2009 at 10:05 am #
I can surely identify with today’s published strip. In fact, as of today, I’ve had my phone shut off. My phone and dsl carrier finally UN-bundled it, and you can now have dsl without phone service. Ahhhhhhh. Sweet. I HAVE to have a cell for work and it was aggravating to have to pay for both. Plus I’m saving over 700 the first year and almost 500 the following. I like doing that.
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Gary Kase on 05 Feb 2009 at 10:07 am #
What do you mean “Obsessive cash disorder”. I’ve been doing it for years, and been trying to get my wife to do it also, but she has resisted all this time.
But I WILL succeed, she will cave in.
Obsessive, my foot!
Jim in SW Illannoy on 05 Feb 2009 at 10:11 am #
Guilty on all counts. This is definitely me. Good thing I wasn’t drinking my coffee yet when I read this.
Mindy on 05 Feb 2009 at 10:19 am #
Oh, shame! The pun! The pun! “A little behind.” Poor Janis. (Couldn’t resist stirring the pot, Jimmy!)
Kirk on 05 Feb 2009 at 11:54 am #
That’s a disorder? I thought that was the way everybody does it. (well, me at least)
curmudgeonly ex-professor on 05 Feb 2009 at 12:41 pm #
I do the same with my wallet – and I unfold any dog-eared corners on the bills first.
buzz on 05 Feb 2009 at 12:44 pm #
Janis’ expression on Feb. 3 and Feb. 4 were priceless.
Rich on 05 Feb 2009 at 2:18 pm #
Doesn’t everyone keep their money in order in their wallet? (Back when I had a turntable, I kept my albums in alphabetical order, too.)
Ron of Bathurst,NB,Canada on 05 Feb 2009 at 3:47 pm #
This hit home. I do the same thing with my wallet money. And today, I noticed a pair of my used underware hanging from a branch of a apparently lifeless houseplant in my basement.
Chris on 05 Feb 2009 at 4:41 pm #
Me, too. I have the ability to inadvertently leave my socks in most every room in the house. Yet when it comes to my wallet, light green side up, big bills on the top, then folded so i don’t have to open my wallet. I know, it’s weird.
Steve from Royal Oak, MI on 05 Feb 2009 at 6:22 pm #
Today I try to keep my credit cards in some kind of order. Who has paper money any more?
My MIL says that I have “cancer of the butt” because my wallet is so fat. I keep little slips of paper with addresses, etc. in it. I have a blackberry but you never know when the thing will crash on you. Yeah I know it was on a “Seinfeld” episode…I never watched the show.
Mary in Ohio on 05 Feb 2009 at 7:02 pm #
Jeez – I’m the same way as Arlo WHEN I have money in my wallet, and I won’t win any Good Housekeeping Awards either.
It used to be when a bank teller gave you money – change for a $20, say, it all faced the same way, etc etc. Now, when I go to get change (for the register at work) they just hand the bills to me in a wad. Sometimes they don’t even count it out to ME as a check on their own count. So I stand there and re-count it aloud in front of them. Once I had an extra dollar. They weren’t too embarrassed to accept it back.
David in Mobile on 05 Feb 2009 at 9:53 pm #
Maybe a bit like the butcher who backed into his meat grinder? He got a little behind in his work.
(Or the optician who fell into his lens-grinder. Made a spectacle of himself)
Thanks for a great strip and a great website!
Jim in SE Mississippi on 06 Feb 2009 at 12:52 pm #
Carry a money clip in your front pocket–that way you don’t have to haul out your wallet, with all the risk that entails, every time you need a couple of ones.
Jean from Dahlonega GA aka Trapper Jean on 06 Feb 2009 at 1:15 pm #
I have to admit I do the same thing-sort of. When I had a job in a real office I kept my desk spotless and everything in it’s place. My desk at home, however, is a different matter. With all the junk piled on it I wonder sometimes how the poor thing manages to stand up under the load.
Stef on 07 Feb 2009 at 2:25 pm #
I do the exact same thing with my cash! I thought I was the only one who was obsessive about it. *whew* I’m glad I’m not. But it makes sense to keep cash organized. However, in this day and age, it is very rare when I actually have cash in my wallet. My Debit card is basically all I use. There have been months where I didn’t eve touch cash.
And Janis has an amazing figure, she should be proud to show it off!
Laetitia in Australia on 09 Feb 2009 at 8:54 am #
Hey, I might actually have some cash to do this with in a few months – like the USA, our federal gov’t is giving out cash. I didn’t get any in the last round (no children) – just had / have to keep funding everyone else with that, baby bonuses (prefer not to pass on my genetics so no children planned) and first home-owners grants (not eligible and didn’t exist when we had a house).
Now our fed. pollies are arguing about whether they’ll pass the next package. If they do we should actually get something this time. Unfortunately, I’m going to have to fork out the money for some appliances before then so it will back-pay that.
But when I do have cash, I do as most posters on this forum seem to do. If I have to keep some aside to pay for different things in the day I’ll put little bits of paper, like receipts, in between to keep it organised.
Mike on 09 Feb 2009 at 11:09 am #
A co-worker convinced me to organize my bills, as I was the flunky that had to make the lunch runs. He gave me a good reason…you don’t want ro accidentally mix a large bill in between the small ones when you hand the cash over to pay for things. The cashier (friend or loan shark) might not catch the error either!