Dad Gives 2-Hour Demonstration On How To Flip A Light Switch To The 'Off' Position

FRANKLIN, MN—Amid growing frustration with lights being left on around the house, local father James Darabont sat his kids down to demonstrate how to flip a light switch to the "Off" position. The two-hour lecture and workshop went over when to turn a light switch off (always) and how to manipulate your fingers to accomplish such a task.

"When you commit to a flipping action," said Mr. Darabont, "you must make sure the light switch goes alllll the way down. If you do not commit fully to the action, the switch may not fully click in the 'down' position. This will raise Daddy's power bill immensely!"

Richard and Annabelle Darabont, ages 7 and 12 respectively, reportedly got the message after five minutes but had to sit through a further 115 minutes and take a final exam.

"Kids, if you don't turn the lights off then how will you learn to take care of yourselves?" the disappointed father said. "Leaving the lights on when no one is in the room is exactly the same as stealing."

James Darabont eventually had to cut his lesson short so his wife could begin a 3-day lecture on how to clean up after yourself.

like, separate checking accounts in the Grampa Dave household?”

One of my wife’s biggest fear of her retirement was only one checking account. She didn’t want to keep it nor argue with me on a lot of stuff.

We kept one checking acct. and each of us has a separate savings acct., and one bigger joint savings acct. for taxes and other significant expenses. If we write a check of reasonable non significance, the funds are transferred from our savings acct. to the one checking acct..

Big $ stuff like new roofs, ac units, comes out of the one big savings acct. which gets a regular amt per month each of us.

We got the concept from our CPA, who was also a friend and fellow church member. Her husband was a high level police officer and helped people to improve their security at work and at home. They joked that this system kept the wife from shooting the husband with his own Glock.

One of my wife’s best friend was a CPA and our system drove her nuts. We also never worry about deducting the exact amount of a check from our ledger/checkbook. If the cents amount was under 33 cents, you rounded down in your checkbook. If the cent amount was over 33 cents you rounded up in you checkbook. This drove my wife’s CPA friend even more insane. I got that system from my God Father who was a banker.

With today’s instant on line banking there is some adaptations.

Wow. Always interesting to see how other xouples work things. Thanks!

Your rounding practice reminds me of one of Dave Ramsey’s stories. One of his counseled couples balanced the checkbook “perfectly” all the time, using “ESP” correction factors. Stood for Error Some Place. LOL!

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