Grandpa Richard Speaks

If some of you are honest with yourself, you will heartily agree with this.
In the affluent society, no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessities.
J K Galbraith

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvable problems.
Lee Iacocca

This is timely, considering the mess in the United States.
I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.
Jules Renard

Udderly ridiculous.
Art Linklater and Bill Cosby said that “Kids Say the Darndest Things”.
In today’s weird and mixed up world, we do not need to go to the kids anymore. Organizations now say the darndest things.
Like PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. They are suggesting that milking cows is both cruel to the [...]

The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is, and the man he wants to be.
William Feather

When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word “succeed”, you find that it simply means to follow through.
F. W. Nichol
Follow through can be such a difficult task. It is often superseded by the BIG P, procrastination.
Throw off the chains of procrastination and move ahead boldly. Success will be there [...]

We had Enron and others like it. Now we have the Wall Street meltdown, and the same questions are being asked.
Have those nice people at the top been fiddling with the books so they could continue earning those big fat pay cheques?
I, for one, cannot believe that they did not know what was happening. [...]

If you have read my article at www.grandparichardskids.com/article/ideas-for-fun-activities-with-grandchildren about having fun with grand children, you know that I love dollar stores. They are the best.
Inflation is making it tough on them, and Dollarama (my favourite) has announced that it will no longer be able to have EVERYTHING for a $1 or less.
I will accept this, [...]

It took me only a minute or so to do this. Unfortunately, it was only of the U.S. elections.

A former spam king in the U.S. has won an appeal of his conviction. The court agreed with Jeremy Jaynes’ claim that the anti-spam law violates free speech protections under the First Amendment.
Although I have not read the actual ruling, that makes me shake my head in disbelief. Sure, maybe the sentence (9 years in [...]