- Lifestyle: Resolve to End Living Above Your Means in 2009

By Judith Martin
Here is a New Year's resolution for which nobody asked: Do not try to live above your means.

Yes, Miss Manners knows that everyone has resolved to cut back on expenses. Probably every year since time began. It may be more urgent now, but people are always doing that.

However, that is not the resolution that Miss Manners proposes. She is hoping for an end to the now commonplace attempts to live above one's means by means of mean devices to use other people's means.
Sorry. Let her try that one more time.

Over the last decade, a huge number of questions she receives begin with statements of what the writer wants to do: Celebrate a birthday, a birth, a graduation or a holiday, take a trip, throw a wedding or anniversary party, furnish a new house, or just give a dinner party or a present

SUBSCRIBE FOR VOLUME 1 ISSUE 8 EDITION OF CARD TECHNOLOGY AFRICA FOR FULL ARTICLE