I’ve spent some time being accused of having eaten my pet rabbit. Save Toby is the story of someone who has gotten canny about his rabbit eating tendencies (not that I ate my rabbit, it was all just vicious rumours), and likewise come up with a cunning method to make some money out of peoples desire to not see small cute furry animals be eaten. The site has been around for a while now, but the basic idea is that he wants to raise $50,000 US by June 30th, otherwise he will eat the rabbit. The total is at $28,372.15 at the moment (apparently). I am watching with curiousity (although not donating any money towards the cause).
I also have to say, that having a credit card is a bad bad thing. I survived without one until the start of this year. Now the problem is not the running up of huge bills, but rather *sounding of dramatic chords* online shopping. It’s ingenious, you see things that you want, type a number on your keyboard, then you get exciting parcels in the mail! Everything is so cheap, and being in the US, postage doesn’t cost the earth, and I don’t have to worry about getting hit with extra costs by customs. I’ll probably wean myself from the habit when I get back home and start having to pay international postage again.