Though cash is king, what d’you think about donating a car? Apparently some charities accept them, auction them, and then you get to claim whatever they got for your deduction. If you have a junker, at least you get it off your driveway and they get a few bucks. If you give a vehicle with a decent number of miles left in its lifetime, someone gets a reasonably priced chariot and the charity gets some money. Or maybe the charity itself can use the vehicle.

BTW, one of the most attractive older women I’ve ever seen was spotted at a Marie Callendar’s next to a local oncology clinic. Her silver hair was about a quarter of an inch all over her head, evenly cut (? grown out?) so it followed the contours of her skull. Amazingly, the effect was dramatically stylish. She looked gorgeous. Whatever they’d done to her must have worked, because she also looked like she felt well.

A couple weeks later, I saw a woman at Saks with a similar style, only hers was pretty clearly deliberate — she had a darker hair with a gray/white forelock, a little longer than the rest and blended backward into the shorter hair. All of which, I guess, is to say something like…by golly, wear it proudly!

Hope you have a Merry Christmas! I’m out leaving comments for all the people whose buttons I have on my blog!