3/3/2003 03:54:44 PM|||Amy|||Lately I have been in a real financial pickle - more so than usual. So, I started thinking: If I had saved every stray penny I have ever come across in my life - you know, the ones from parking lots, streets, sidewalks, spare penny cups at food places ("take a penny, keep your penny"), change, whatever - how many would I have? A million, two million? It suddenly makes sense to me why those collection boxes work so well. I wonder if I could shamelessly start my own? I could create my own poor boxes maybe, dress up like a nun and then go put them in bars, grocery stores and food places just like they do in Ireland. I've thought about putting one on my desk at work, but that probably constitutes inappropriate conduct or conflict of interest. What if I started PayPal on this website and wrote with witty fervor about all my different troubles and make pithy remarks about how it sucks to be pregnant? I could join one of those blogging mommy rings where some of the other mommies would donate because they would feel justified finally that they weren't the only ones who thought so.|||90071541|||