Pruning The Roses
Spring. In normal times people flocked to garden centers to buy seeds and tools for gardening, even if it’s a balcony garden.
Covid-19 has made us all gardeners. We must prune the roses, spending roses, because we don’t know if we’ll have a monthly income when this is all water under the bridge. We hope. Oh! You have your own business? It depends on the industry you’re operating in. Your partners go under, you follow.
Pruning the roses. First item on the agenda is defining extras, which is highly subjective. What is essential? What is non-essential? Don’t try suggesting getting rid of basketball season tickets, because you might find your darling staring at you, eyes not moving an inch.
OK. Delete idea. He cannot do without those arrogant Raptors, that don’t give a hoot about the draft. Why not print jerseys ‘ undrafted players only?’
O. K. Raptors are essential for world peace, no home peace. Transport. You suggest selling the second car. You will drop and fetch her from work or her mother’s house. That look! O.K. bad idea and she explains why. She loves you dearly but she will not, be like those women who wait more than one hour outside the office gate, only to be given the lame ‘traffic was heavy’ excuse. Two cars oil the relationship. One car wrecks it, as in totals it.
Pruning the roses is easier for single people, a compromise for couples and a damn nightmare for parents. That is why this time, COVID-19 time, is a good time to school kids about money.
The phone bill, which includes data kids need to roam all over the world has TAXES: government sales tax and provincial taxes. You can also show them your payslips.
This is how much parents make. This is what the government siphons out, although we can’t complain right now, because it is using that money to pay us for not going to work, thanks to COVID-19. Kids, listen up. This is the rent or mortgage for our home. This is how much we pay for gas monthly. Give them hand-held calculators. Yes, make it a reality show, to drive home the point why, it is time to prune the roses.
There has to cuts, cuts to home spending. How parents and single people handle it depends on priorities. Is eating out every Friday a priority? Are annual vacations a priority? Just think about that homeless guy on your block.
What are his priorities, changing kitchen cabinets from wood to granite, or a safe haven for the night where he won’t be sexually abused? Watch Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds movie where Thandi Newton’s character runs away from a shelter, for fear of abuse for herself and her daughter.
We all want our jobs back after COVID-19, but what happens if they are lost? Where do we prune the roses?
By: Nonqaba waka Msimang.
Covid-19 has made us all gardeners. We must prune the roses, spending roses, because we don’t know if we’ll have a monthly income when this is all water under the bridge. We hope. Oh! You have your own business? It depends on the industry you’re operating in. Your partners go under, you follow.Pruning the roses. First item on the agenda is defining extras, which is highly subjective. What is essential? What is non-essential? Don’t try suggesting getting rid of basketball season tickets, because you might find your darling staring at you, eyes not moving an inch.
OK. Delete idea. He cannot do without those arrogant Raptors, that don’t give a hoot about the draft. Why not print jerseys ‘ undrafted players only?’
Pruning the roses is easier for single people, a compromise for couples and a damn nightmare for parents. That is why this time, COVID-19 time, is a good time to school kids about money.
The phone bill, which includes data kids need to roam all over the world has TAXES: government sales tax and provincial taxes. You can also show them your payslips.
This is how much parents make. This is what the government siphons out, although we can’t complain right now, because it is using that money to pay us for not going to work, thanks to COVID-19. Kids, listen up. This is the rent or mortgage for our home. This is how much we pay for gas monthly. Give them hand-held calculators. Yes, make it a reality show, to drive home the point why, it is time to prune the roses.
There has to cuts, cuts to home spending. How parents and single people handle it depends on priorities. Is eating out every Friday a priority? Are annual vacations a priority? Just think about that homeless guy on your block.
What are his priorities, changing kitchen cabinets from wood to granite, or a safe haven for the night where he won’t be sexually abused? Watch Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds movie where Thandi Newton’s character runs away from a shelter, for fear of abuse for herself and her daughter.
We all want our jobs back after COVID-19, but what happens if they are lost? Where do we prune the roses?
By: Nonqaba waka Msimang.
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