trash and credit reports

Today I learned that because other people go around flinging their plastic grocery bags every which way so they end up in waterways and impaled on cacti (around here, anyway), I'm going to have to start buying trash bags in May. Wild Oats bags make the greatest trash bags ever, and Whole Foods bought them, so the bags are going to change anyway, but Whole Foods won't be giving out plastic bags after Earth Day. Whole Foods bags were good for making sewing patterns.

In other news, a foreclosure is a smaller hit on your credit than a bankruptcy, so it can be well worth it to bail on your mortgage but keep all your other bills up to date. If you do it right, you can even buy another house like the one you have at current reduced prices, then let your first house go into foreclosure. It makes your credit bad for a couple of years, but as long as you plan ahead and don't need a car loan or something, you're all good to go. Now I understand the stories about people walking away from houses in Connecticut around 1990.