Comments on: Self-preservation

By: Heather B.

Heather B. — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:00:44 +0000

Or you could just leave it to me. I know where you live, I’ve cat sat before and I’ll leave you linens smelling like hair product JUST HOW YOU LIKE IT.

By: Jaime Pack

Jaime Pack — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 01:10:52 +0000

Where are you?!its been over a week, and your fans from Utah are all getting worried. Miss reading you most evet day. Hope all is well.

By: abbersnail

abbersnail — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:17:43 +0000

Yeah, I don’t know what I would do in that situation. My best friend has HIS OWN two bedroom place, and could easily make $20K for the week, and he’s hesitating as well.

By: deb

deb — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:34:54 +0000

I say stay in town, in your own bed, but use your place as a homebase for overpriced goods that you sell from a red wagon. Stack it with flats of water, oh, and hey, get some of those glow sticks that are fun at night! Kids love those. Or you could just read tarot cards at your kitchen table.

By: Don Cornelius

Don Cornelius — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:21:17 +0000

I’m really looking forward to seeing a sign for the MamaLikey Bed & Breakfast and All Things Kitty Emporium.

And the proper term for Jan. 20 is coronation. I heard he’s going to wear flowing white robes and is even now growing a beard to go for the Surfer Jebus look.

By: Hilary

Hilary — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:16:57 +0000

It IS tempting, though I am outside the city it is very, very close. I feel you with the out-of-towners and their sub-par foot-maintenance. Still, 5K would be pretty sweet.

By: Del-v

Del-v — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:07:54 +0000

I’m getting a few days of leave around the inauguration because my office is right off the Mall. So I’m going to go to Mexico for a 5-day weekend. If you want to rent out your place and stay at my place in Maryland you are more than welcome. I’m making the most out of this opportunity… you should too.

By: Life Breathed Easier

Life Breathed Easier — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 17:08:16 +0000

I’ve also gone back and forth on the inauguration renting, but since I have roommates I think the idea has been shot down by one of them. (The McCain supporter of the three of us, funnily enough; you’d think she’d enjoy getting some sort of benefit out of this election if not her President of choice.) I must agree with the others though, pack a bag including the vibrator and buy yourself a vacation to some place warm!

By: Ulysses

Ulysses — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 06:24:24 +0000

I see how it’s going to happen now: the eve of inauguration (by then I should be able to spell it without having to tip my head and squint at it thinking it doesn’t look right), I’m out somewhere, and someone special comes up to talk to me, suggests we get to know each other better, and I can’t decide whether she’s really into me or just looking for a soft-touch with a bed to share…

By: LiLu

LiLu — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 21:53:08 +0000

I’ve been struggling with this as well. I know I could ask for a deposit, and draw up the appropriate paperwork… but still, at the end of the day, it just seems like such an invasion of privacy. I put an ad up on CL just to see what I could get, but I’m just not sure I could go through with it unless the price was really, REALLY right.

By: sizzle

sizzle — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 18:08:02 +0000

As much as the lure of $$ would tempt me, I don’t think I’d let strangers rent out my furnished apartment. And what would I do with my cats? What if they weren’t nice to them!?

By: Gwen

Gwen — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:42:37 +0000

I can’t even find my vibrator. I’m pretty sure one of my daughters is going to walk in with it any day now and ask what it’s for. That’s when I’ll be calling you.

By: auntie

auntie — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 20:13:10 +0000

I’ll admit…I was skimming this post a little until I got to the last paragraph. Which totally cracked me up!

I have the same agreement with my friends as Susan above…if I die and/or am incapacitated, my parents are not to be allowed in my apartment until the Magical Box has been removed. How they’re going to accomplish this, I have no idea, but they’re the ones that agreed to it so the burden’s on them.

By: maggie, dammit

maggie, dammit — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:31:16 +0000

WOW! I had no idea people sublet their homes for this. No idea at all.

By the way? You have a rare gift. It’s incredible, you can write about anything – anything – and it’s interesting. It’s always interesting.

By: Sassy

Sassy — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:18:41 +0000

I would so do it. But then, I’m poor. Okay, not poor, just continually broke. 10K would do a lot to ease my mind, build my emergency fund, and buy me a vacation.

By: Ryane

Ryane — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:13:21 +0000

I’ve considered it, myself, but then again – I’m not entirely sure that any amount of money can erase from my small apartment the remnanats of strangers touching my things, sleeping in my bed…ewyuckick. I write about skincare and the nasty things that can happen to the skin on a daily basis. I think I’ll just entertain my own germs that week and leave the rest to fend for themselves!

By: Lost Artist

Lost Artist — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:46:52 +0000

I would totally throw you at least $100.00 to sleep on your couch for the maybe 4 days surrounding the inauguration. Maybe even $150.00 except that I already have relatives in the area and I plan on begging them for their couch. Funny, the same housing crisis is hitting my city in KY when we’re hosting the 2010 World Equestrian Games (an event far too big for our little town). You should do it.

By: Susan

Susan — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:42:41 +0000

I totally agree with freckledk’s response. Besides that, I have an agreement with my closest friends that should I suffer an untimely demise, they are to empty all evidence of my “secret shoe box” from the premises prior to my mother arriving. God, I have good friends.

By: Schokolade Mädchen

Schokolade Mädchen — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:19:36 +0000

You never ate a pot brownie…for real? Your friends never even slipped you a pot brownie for fun?

By: Graceflone

Graceflone — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:48:14 +0000

Are you crazy? I would kill to make 10K for a week on my place. They could go through every drawer and closet I have for that kind of money. One of the guys I work with’s daughter is renting hers out for $7,500.00.

By: freckledk

freckledk — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:14:21 +0000

I’d use a vibrator in front of my mother for $10k. Do it.

By: Finn

Finn — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:27:35 +0000

I say do it and take the vibe with you.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:24:58 +0000

Why leave town? Rent out your couch for an exhorbitant sum. Ask for applications (with photograph, of course) and then pick the best looking guy. This way you protect your unmentionables and make a large sum of money all while having some eye candy around. There is no way to lose because you know any man willing to spend that kind of money to sleep on a woman’s couch must be outstanding. Or creepy.

By: Julianne

Julianne — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:19:14 +0000

I have to agree with DateWithKate. I mean, for 10K, board the pets, hiring a cleaning service (once for before the out of towners arrive, once for when they leave), and bunk down with a friend. Lock all of your stuff you can’t imagine anyone looking at without getting sick into a closet (install a lock on the closet – I’m from Florida where people rent out their houses all the time. It’s ok to have a locked closet or two), and start taking the offers. The tidy profit you’ll make will more than make the inconvenience worth it. I wish I could rent my house out for a weekend for 10K. That would rock. Forget slipcovers – by a new freaking couch! (or just put on the old slip cover or cover the couch with a sheet and lock the new slip cover in the locked closet).

By: DateWithKate

DateWithKate — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:18:19 +0000

They could have my panties for 10k. Think of all the new cute ones you could buy (and slipcovers!) I would do it!