As the Phrase Turns

Writing a blog post a day requires a great deal of wordiness, the ability to procrastinate, amusing muses, and careful editing.

Anyone else out there love the outtakes feature of DVDs? It's often what Rach and I look forward to the most. Well, because of the editing process, you guys usually get the most "polished" versions of the posts, but not necessarily the funniest. You should have seen the early drafts of the Christmas Eve post!

Before you get too excited, though, this isn't an outtake post. I was merely commenting that I like watching actors ad lib or flub their lines. What you will get here is a chance to participate in Noisy Little Adventure's first Interweb Special Interactive Choose Your Own Adventure Doug's Wacky Wordplay Post-Christmas Play-Along! We'll call it ISICYOADWWP-CP-A for short.

In researching the word-of-the-day, today, I was amused by a list of related expressions. Help me choose the right one py posting your favorite (or one of your own) and if you choose correctly, I might some day finish this blog post and dedicate it to you!

The boys are amassing quite the collection of piggy banks. Mini-Me, mainly, since Auntie K started a tradition of bringing him a new one after each of her worldly travels, but what's Mini-Me's is The Wubster's these days. The Wubster does have his own collection, but those are mostly porcelain (yeah...smart move on our part) and were hidden away after Mini-Me shattered one at bedtime a couple months ago.

The remaining piggy bank collection provides the boys with a fun play opportunity [they can spend hours emptying and filling those banks, but when they stop, it's always after emptying, natch], which we're hoping will help us teach them the benefits of saving, spending, donating and avoiding any improvidence in their future.

...and avoiding buttering their bread on both sides.
...and avoiding being a penny wise and a pound foolish.
...and avoiding playing ducks and drakes with their finances.
...and avoiding being scattergoods.
...and avoiding sending the helves after the hatchets.
...and avoiding sparing at the spigot and spilling at the bung.
...and avoiding spending money like drunken sailors.

Personally, I've been a fan of sparing at the spigot and spilling at the bung for years, but parents always want a better life for their kids.