"We just sold our 1996 Volvo for $1700! We had bought it in 2010 for $2200- so that means we paid only $500 for our car for fourteen and a half years!", my wife boasted in a WhatsApp text to her siblings. Minutes later I was doing the same to my parents. I guess that makes us both cheapskates. In his "Guess How Much" racial financial stereotyping routine, Jimmy Yang states "Asian people love to brag about how little money we spent on something...because the art is in the savi

3. Klondike Gold Rush history 1896-98. Never understood why needing to go up the Chilkoot pass’ ice steps outside Skagway, Alaska was such a big deal until I found out that the RCMP mandated you needed to carry one year’s worth of supplies to be allowed into Canada- so you had to do it 40-50 times! The goal was to get over the coastal mountains to Carcross, then go by the Yukon River ~600 km past hazardous Whitehorse rapids (they looked like the flowing manes of white horses,